Kenneth Dean丁荷生

Style & Daoist names

Kenneth Dean

Period

Contemporary

Dates

? — ?

Role

Scholar of Daoism and Popular ReligionProfessor, National University of Singapore

Birthplace

United States

Life

Kenneth Dean, an American-born scholar, formerly a professor at McGill University and now professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore, has conducted long-term fieldwork on Daoism and popular religion in Putian, Fujian, and elsewhere. He has written Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China (1993) and Lord of the Three in One: The Spread of a Cult in Southeast China (1998), co-edited with Zheng Zhenman the Epigraphical Materials on the History of Religion in Fujian (fascicles for Xinghua and Quanzhou prefectures), and co-authored First and Last Emperors with Brian Massumi. In recent years he has directed the ‘Singapore Chinese Temples and Southeast Asian Religious Networks’ database and studied ritual alliances on the Putian plain. The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Studied Daoist ritual and popular religion in Fujian
• Studied the Sanyi (Three-in-One) Teaching
• Edited the Epigraphical Materials on the History of Religion in Fujian and built a database of Southeast Asian Chinese religion

Works

• Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
• Lord of the Three in One
• Epigraphical Materials on the History of Religion in Fujian (co-editor)
• Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain (co-author)