Scientific Papers by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Military medicine, 2014
A case-control study among Singapore Armed Forces' newly enlisted Servicemen was conducted to... more A case-control study among Singapore Armed Forces' newly enlisted Servicemen was conducted to examine factors associated with male obesity. Four hundred and fifty-nine individuals from the Obese Basic Military Training program were selected as "cases" (average age: 19.5, body mass index: 30.4) and another 340 individuals were selected from the Normal Basic Military Training program as "controls" (average age: 19.3, body mass index: 21.4). Information such as family background, socioeconomic factors, and lifestyle practices were captured using facilitator-led questionnaires. Several variables were significantly associated with obesity after adjustments for possible confounders. These include childhood obesity (odds ratio [OR] = 2.06), less than an hour of exercise per day (OR = 2.97), Indian ethnicity (OR = 2.22), specific education backgrounds (especially that of Institute of Technical Education-OR = 2.75), father's employment at nonmanagerial/professiona...
Conference Presentations by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
MA Thesis by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Title of MA Thesis:
Captivating God’s Heart: A History of Independent Christianity, Fundament... more Title of MA Thesis:
Captivating God’s Heart: A History of Independent Christianity, Fundamentalism and Gender in Chin Lien Bible Seminary and the Singapore Christian Evangelistic League, 1935-1997
Supervisor: A/Prof Bruce Lockhart
University/Department: NUS History Department
Completed: Oct 2015
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Book Reviews by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 2021
Studies in World Christianity, 2021
Studies in World Christianity, Mar 1, 2023
Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context 49 (3), 2020, 401-2
Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context, 2020
Found in Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context 48(1): 81-82
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Popular Articles by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Journal Articles by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Social Sciences and Missions, 2024
Why did Asian Christian international students return home with a missionary mindset during the C... more Why did Asian Christian international students return home with a missionary mindset during the Cold War? This study answers the question by investigating Overseas Christian Fellowship (OCF) Australia and its student returnee mission. I show that OCF’s returnee mission was shaped by Australia’s Cold War foreign policy – the Colombo Plan Scheme. The paper argues that the time-limited conditions imposed by the Scheme established a migratory and educational training pattern which influenced OCF’s mission of evangelising overseas students and training its members to return home as Christian witnesses. In conclusion, I observe a student-led, faith-based Australia-Asia imaginary emerging from OCF’s mission.
Healthcare, 2023
Our paper, which is the first historical study about heat injuries in Singapore, seeks to situate... more Our paper, which is the first historical study about heat injuries in Singapore, seeks to situate the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) history of heat stress management policies within the national context. Firstly, we observe that since the late 1970s, a research-driven approach has been adopted by the SAF’s military medical leaders to formulate a range of policies to address the Forces’ high incidence of heat injuries. This has resulted in the introduction of SAF-wide training measures, and the assembling of local scientific research expertise, which has led to a sharp reduction in heat injury incidence from the 1980s to 2000s. Through this, the SAF sought to demonstrate that its heat stress mitigation measures made the Singapore military ‘heat proof’. Secondly, the state shaped a soldier safety agenda in the late 2000s on the back of an increasing emphasis on safety and the transformation of the SAF into a highly-educated and technologically-sophisticated force. This meant a shift towards concern about the welfare of every soldier, particularly through the state’s drive to eradicate all training-related deaths. Accordingly, the SAF medical military leaders responded to the state’s safety agenda by introducing heat stress management research and policies that were oriented towards the target of eradicating deaths due to heat stress. This policy and research direction, as such, has been strongly guided by the state’s safety agenda and utilised to demonstrate to the public that all efforts have been taken to comprehensively mitigate the risks of heat.
Mission Studies, 2022
The emergence of Chinese evangelicals as missionaries in the first half of the twentieth century ... more The emergence of Chinese evangelicals as missionaries in the first half of the twentieth century is an understudied topic. This paper thus seeks to foreground their voices by focusing on their Southeast Asian evangelistic work. By drawing on publications related to the Chinese Foreign Missionary Union and Alliance Bible Seminary, it is clear these missionaries were able to show their competency as transnational, inter-cultural workers that could undertake effective missionary work. This is shown in three ways. First, I argue that these evangelicals sought to carve out the South Seas (Nanyang) as a “Chinese” mission field by constructing narratives that emphasized a Chinese-Christian obligation to evangelize the region. Second, these evangelicals added a racial dimension to these narratives by claiming that they were more suited to evangelize the Nanyang peoples. Thirdly, I suggest that they eschewed “top-down” missionary methods and employed a grassroots approach in their engagement with different communities.
Religions, 2022
This paper takes its cue from studies in Chinese religious transnationalism to offer an interpret... more This paper takes its cue from studies in Chinese religious transnationalism to offer an interpretation of how a group of Chinese evangelical leaders constructed their visions and versions of transnational Christianity across China and Southeast Asia through the 1930s and 1960s. Two representative organisations are examined. The first concerns the transnational network of Chinese evangelistic bands that the prominent revivalist-evangelist John Sung established across China and Southeast Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. The bands’ sources reveal how they played a key role in imbuing a transnational landscape and communal sense of spiritual revival into the imaginations of the Chinese churches. The second case evaluates the cross-border institutional-building work of the Evangelize China Fellowship, a major transnational Chinese evangelical grouping founded by Sung’s colleague Andrew Gih after World War II. The analysis reveals how the Fellowship utilised a faith-based developmental agenda to promote Christianity among the overseas Chinese communities across Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong in the 1950s to 1960s. In all, paying attention to Chinese Christian imaginaries of Southeast Asia enables us to understand how they formed faith adherents across Asia into transnational ethno-religious communities.
Ching Feng, 2019
This study draws on recent scholarship about Chinese Christian textual traditions to analyze the ... more This study draws on recent scholarship about Chinese Christian textual traditions to analyze the posthumous biographies of Leona Jingling Wu (1897-1974), the prominent leader of John Sung's evangelistic bands in Singapore and founder of the island's first Chinese Protestant higher education institute, Chin Lien Bible Seminary. The essay argues that these biographies "Confucianized" Wu by re-casting her as a Chinese-Christian female spiritual model. First, a survey of literary productions from the pre-1970s demonstrates that Wu was initially portrayed as an evangelical rather than a female Confucian model. Second, the process of "Confucianizing" Wu only becomes apparent in her biographies written in the 1970s. Three strategies were employed to highlight Wu's Confucian attributes-the re-telling of her Chinese-Christian genealogy, an emphasis on her filiality before she moved to
Singapore, and the re-imagination of her as a spiritual mother. In all, her biographers re-casted her as a Chinese and Christian who successfully melded the key values of both traditions.
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Scientific Papers by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Conference Presentations by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
MA Thesis by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Captivating God’s Heart: A History of Independent Christianity, Fundamentalism and Gender in Chin Lien Bible Seminary and the Singapore Christian Evangelistic League, 1935-1997
Supervisor: A/Prof Bruce Lockhart
University/Department: NUS History Department
Completed: Oct 2015
Click on link for direct access to the dissertation.
Book Reviews by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Popular Articles by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Journal Articles by Joshua Dao Wei SIM
Singapore, and the re-imagination of her as a spiritual mother. In all, her biographers re-casted her as a Chinese and Christian who successfully melded the key values of both traditions.
Captivating God’s Heart: A History of Independent Christianity, Fundamentalism and Gender in Chin Lien Bible Seminary and the Singapore Christian Evangelistic League, 1935-1997
Supervisor: A/Prof Bruce Lockhart
University/Department: NUS History Department
Completed: Oct 2015
Click on link for direct access to the dissertation.
Singapore, and the re-imagination of her as a spiritual mother. In all, her biographers re-casted her as a Chinese and Christian who successfully melded the key values of both traditions.