Religion, Social Movements, and Identity in Hong Kong after 2020

In this roundtable, we build on a recently accepted special forum in the Journal of Asian Studies on religion, social movements, and identity in Hong Kong. The essays there elucidate how the 2019 anti-extradition law amendment bill (anti-ELAB) protests intersected with religious life in the contexts of popular Sinophone religiosity, the place of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong in civil society, and the engagement of Islamic and Sikh communities with social movements. This roundtable looks forward to how these religious movements, communities, practices, and institutions have developed in an era of tightening control after 2020 and how their evolution situates Hong Kong identity and the importance of religion in its formation in broader Sinophone worlds.