About
Dr Calida Chu (AFHEA; FRSA; FRAS), born and raised in Hong Kong, is Teaching Associate in Sociology of Religion at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham. She previously worked as Teaching Fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and received her PhD in world Christianity at the same institution in 2020, with a thesis about Hong Kong public theology after 1997. She holds a Master of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary and serves as an executive committee member of the Society for the Study of Theology.
Course manager: Religion, Media, and Ethics; Religion in Britain: Interfaith Encounters in a Secular Age
Calida是香港神學家和諾丁咸大學宗教社會學講師。她曾在愛丁堡大學神學院當講師，及於2020年在同校取得世界基督教博士學位，主要研究後97香港公共神學。她持有福樂神學院道學碩士學位及現於神學研究學會擔任行政會員。
課程主管：宗教、媒體及倫理；英國宗教：世俗化下的宗教對話 Publications
- Brunsdon, Alfred and Calida Chu. ‘Editorial 16-02, Special Themed Issue: Majority World Epistemologies’, Practical Theology 16, 2 (2023): 133–138. DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2204256
- ‘Effective Communication on Social Media: A Christian Response to Toxic Conversations Online’, Faith and Thought 73 (October 2022): 2–19.
- ‘Zaiei Honkonbito kurisuchan komyunitī no shiren to kanōsei’ 在英香港人クリスチャン・コミュニティーの試練と可能性 [Hong Kong Christian Communities in the United Kingdom: Struggles and Opportunities]. In Yoake o tomoni machinagara: Honkon e no inori
夜明けを共に待ちながら: 香港への祈り[Waiting for the Dawn Together: Prayers for Hong Kong], edited by 朝岡勝 [Masaru Asaoka], 松谷曄介 [Yosuke Matsutani], and 森島豊 [Yutaka Morishima], 100–109. Tokyo: 教文館[Kyobunkwan], 2022 (In Japanese).
- Social Media as Tools of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch’, in Christian Social Activism and the Rule of Law in China, ed. Yang Fenggang and Chris White, 167-183. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.
- Theology of the Pain of God in the Era of COVID-19: The Reflections on Sufferings by Three Hong Kong Churches through Online Services’, Practical Theology,14, 1–2 (2021): 22–34.10.1080/1756073X.2020.1864101
- ‘William Newbern and Youth Hymns: The Music Ministry of the C&MA in South China in the Mid-Twentieth Century’, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, July 2019. DOI: 10.1177/2396939319832280
- Review of Singing with God’s Psalms: Metrical Psalms and Reflections for Each Sunday in the Church Year by Fred R. Anderson, Expository Times 30 (1): 465. July 2019. DOI:10.1177/0014524619845514
- Review of World Christianity as Public Religion by Raimundo Barreto, Ronaldo Cavalcante, and Wanderley P. da Rosa, Studies in World Christianity 25(1): 123-124. April, 2019. DOI:10.3366/swc.2019.0249
- Review of Postcolonial Public Theology: Faith, Scientific Rationality, and Prophetic Dialogue by Paul S. Chung, Expository Times 129 (11):529-530. August, 2018. DOI: 10.1177/0014524618778430
Memberships
- American Association of Religion
- British and Irish Association of Practical Theology
- European Academy of Religion
- East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
- Scholars at the Peripheries, University of St Andrews
- Society of the Study of Theology
- Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity the History of the Mission
