Jonathan A. Seitz

Associate Professor at Taiwan Graduate School of Theology in Taipei, Taiwan, and a mission co-worker with Presbyterian Church (USA). 

A graduate of the College of Wooster and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, PhD), he is a historian of religion who is especially interested in first generation Christianity and religious pluralism. He is currently working on projects related to early Chinese Protestantism and is growing into research on Taiwanese Christianity. He welcomes visitors in Taipei.

Recent Works:

1.  Co-editor with Richard Fox Young, Asia in the Making of Christianity: Conversion, Agency, Indigeneity, 1600s to the Present. Brill, 2013.

2. “Mission and Immigration,” in Allen Jorgenson, Hussam Timani, and Alexander Hwang, eds., Strangers in the World: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration (Fortress, 2015)

3.  “China: History, Beliefs, Practices,” “China: Christian Contacts,” “China: Theological Exchanges,” and “China: Current Issues,” 216-239 in Terry Muck, ed., Handbook of Religion: A Christian Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices (Baker Academic Books, 2014).

4. “Religious Dualism and the Problem of Dual-Religious Identity,” Buddhist-Christian Studies (2015).