Daniel Chun Leung Chow

Email: dclc2@cam.ac.uk

MPhil Student in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion (World Christianity)

Supervisor: Professor Jörg Haustein

College Affiliation: Selwyn College

Summary of My Research

My research is grounded in the geographies of religion and focuses on how Pentecostal Christians in Hong Kong and the greater Chinese-speaking world imagine and inhabit space through their lived practices and theological imagination. Using ethnographic methods, my work seeks to reinterpret Pentecostal spatiality beyond the traditional distinction between the sacred and the secular. It also explores how neo-charismatic thoughts and practices flow across global networks and reshape local expressions of faith. In doing so, it contributes to the growing field of Pentecostal studies by showing how Pentecostal worldviews influence both local and global geographies of faith within the broader context of World Christianity.

Publications

Books

  • Neo-Charismatic Thoughts and Praxes: A Critical Introduction. Hong Kong: ACSM, under contract.

Book Chapters

  • “Pentecostals as Islanders: A Life History of the Island Pentecostals in Hong Kong.” (with Christian Nathan Ng) In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Supplements, vol. 3, edited by Connie Au and Reginald Alva. Leiden: Brill, 2026 (forthcoming).

Conference Papers

  • “Discerning Spirits: A Pneumatological Analysis of Negative Religious Experiences in Pentecostal Healing Practices.” Asian Practical Theology International Conference 2025, Asia Academy of Practical Theology (Virtual), June 13–14, 2025.
  • “Rethinking Spiritual Mapping: An Ethnographic and Hermeneutical Exploration of Pentecostal Spatial Production in Hong Kong.” Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2024, Royal Geographical Society and Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, August 27–30, 2024.
  • “Reconceptualizing Sacred Spaces: A Critical Poetics of Space Approach to Pentecostal Spatial Production in Hong Kong.” Navigating the Sacred: Critical Spatial Approaches to the Study of Religion Panel, Critical Research on Religion Conference 2024, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 7–10, 2024.
  • “Islands as Sacred Spaces: A Case Study of the Pentecostal Community on the Island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong.” (with Christian Nathan Ng) The Geography Society of China Located in Taipei Annual Geography Conference 2024, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 27–28, 2024.
  • “Rethinking the Production of Sacred Spaces: A Critical Poetics Approach to Pentecostal Spatial Contestations in Postcolonial Hong Kong.” (with Christian Nathan Ng) American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2024, Hilton Hawaiian Village and Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, April 16–20, 2024.
  • “Pentecostalism and the Production of Sacred Spaces: Exploring Religious Performances in the Spatial Contexts of Hong Kong.” (with Christian Nathan Ng) International Conference on Geographical Studies 2023, University of the Philippines Diliman (Virtual), November 24–25, 2023.

Newspaper Articles

  • “Not a Heresy, but a Re-Enchantment: The Restorationist Spirit of the New Apostolic Reformation.” Christian Times, July 18, 2025.
  • “Our Golden Age.” Christian Times, June 6, 2025.
  • “Pentecostal and Charismatic Movement and the Ecumenical Spirit: The History, the Global, and the Imagination.” Christian Times, September 15, 2024.