Prof. Dr. Andre Laliberte

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPolitical Science,Asian Studies
Keywordsfilial piety and the work of care, religion and national identity, religious philanthropy and welfare regimes, secularization and modernity in China, religious diversity in East Asian democracies
Honours and awards

2019: Konrad Adenauer-Forschungspreis für kanadische Wissenschaftler

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityOttawa
InstitutionUniversity of Ottawa
InstituteSchool of Political Studies

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Christoph KleineReligionswissenschaftliches Institut, Professur für Religionsgeschichte (Buddhismus), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2019

Programme(s)

2019Konrad Adenauer Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Laliberte is a leading political scientist whose research crosses the borders between disciplines, languages, and regions. He has made contributions and has developed impressive expertise in the areas of religious diversity in East Asian democracies, religious philanthropy and social welfare, filial piety and the work of care, as well as of religion and national identity. In Germany, he will focus on the role of religion in the field of social welfare in Chinese societies.

Publications (partial selection)

2022Pascal Bourdeaux, Eddy Dufourmont, André Laliberté, Rémy Madinier: Asia and the Secular: Francophone perspectives in a Global Age’. de Gruyter, 2022
2022Andre Laliberte: Chinese Religions and Welfare Regimes beyond the PRC: Legacies of Empire and Multiple Secularities. Springer, 2022
2022Andre Laliberte: Religion and China's Welfare Regimes: Buddhist Philanthropy and the State. Springer, 2022
2022Andre Laliberte: The Legacy of an Accommodative Secularism: Religions and Taiwan’s Responses to COVID-19. In: Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies 14, 2022, 75-108
2021Andre Laliberte: China in a secular age: coping with the legacy of a religious state'. Brill, 2021
2021Andre Laliberte: How do we measure secularity?. In: Journal of Law and Religion 36, 2021, 283-290
2021Andre Laliberte: Taiwan’s Covenantal Pluralism. In: The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 19, 2021, 42-55