Asian Religious Connections (ASIAR) is a research cluster convened by David A. Palmer at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at HKU. Rooted in strong expertise on religion in Chinese societies, the cluster extends its interest to the broader Asian region, both through the comparison of different Asian contexts and through the study of inter-Asian connections and circulations.

Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road (BRINFAITH) seeks to investigate the religious impact of China’s intensification of ties and infrastructures linking it to the rest of Asia and beyond.

The Yao Dao Project (YAODAO) studies the role of Daoism in the communities of the Yao Mun/Lanten Yao society, which straddles the borders between Laos, China, and Vietnam, and for whom Daoist ritual and cosmology are at the core of its collective organisation and culture.