{"id":386,"name":"Kai Shmushko","url":"https:\/\/www.uva.nl\/en\/profile\/s\/h\/k.shmushko\/k.shmushko.html","description":"I am an interdisciplinary researcher working as researcher and lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Amsterdam. Currently working within the project RECOGNITION, (religious cognition among migrants). In this project, I am researching the multifaceted Chinese communities in the Netherlands while contributing to the development of cross-culturally comparable measurements to assess religion among migrants. For my doctoral thesis have studied contemporary Buddhism in China, culminating with a thesis titled: \u201cMultiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in 21st century China- Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics\u201d (Published with LUP 2024)\r\n\r\nMy academic grounding is in China Studies, Religious Studies, and Cultural Anthropology with a strong orientation towards ethnographic and mixed methods research, online and field-based ethnography. My research stands in the nexus of several primary interests: Religion and spirituality among Chinese societies and diasporic Chinese communities; heritage and material culture of Chinese religions; Chinese religious and cultural production in new media; and religion and politics of the Chinese sphere.\r\n\r\nI teach and have taught (university level) in the field of cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, comparative religion, and comparative philosophy of religion.","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/author\/kaishmushko\/","slug":"kaishmushko","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4b25788adfca33ecd98c5d992d01989a?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4b25788adfca33ecd98c5d992d01989a?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4b25788adfca33ecd98c5d992d01989a?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}