Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
4-2020
Abstract
I was in Chicago on June 12, 2019 when my friend, a Christian theologian from Hong Kong, sent me a Facebook Live video of Civic Square, the site outside the government offices that got its name from a 2012 protest against a bill to revise Hong Kong’s education curriculum to feature nationalistic Chinese themes. Civic Square was also where the 2014 Umbrella Movement began. The crowd that gathered there in June of last year was singing the evangelical chorus "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord." The word on the street, my friend said, was that Christians were trying to calm the police attired in riot gear. A day of protests was expected against the second reading of a bill to amend the extradition law to allow for any requesting foreign jurisdiction, including the Chinese mainland, to request the return of "fugitive offenders" to face legal repercussions for their crimes. The fear was that it would be used to repress critics of Beijing.
Keywords
Political protests, Christians, Hong Kong
Discipline
Asian Studies | Political Science | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
The Immanent Frame
First Page
1
Last Page
3
Publisher
Social Science Research Council
Citation
TSE, Justin Kh.(2020). Sing hallelujah to the Lord: secular Christianities on Hong Kong's Civic Square. The Immanent Frame, , 1-3.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3590
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Included in
Asian Studies Commons, Political Science Commons, Religion Commons