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Anna Sun

Anna Sun

Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
anna.x.sun@duke.edu
Box 90964, 403 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708
407 Chapel Drive, Box 90964, Durham, NC 27278

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Thinking with Weber’s Religion of China in the Twenty-First Century

Journal article Review of Religion and Chinese Society · December 4, 2020 Featured Publication AbstractThis paper proposes a new approach to Max Weber’s Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, which is to make the development of Confucianism, rather than the development of modern capit ... Full text Open Access Cite

To Be or Not to Be a Confucian: Explicit and Implicit Religious Identities in the Global Twenty-First Century

Journal article Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion · 2020 Featured Publication Cite

A Sociological Consideration of Prayer and Agency

Journal article TDR/The Drama Review · December 2016 Prayer may be seen as one of the most individual forms of action. Yet, like suicide, another supposedly individualistic action performed by a solitary individual, prayer is a dynamic, reflexive, intersubjective social action, and the sociality of ... Full text Open Access Cite