Anna Sun

Anna Sun is an associate professor of religious studies and sociology at Duke University. Her books include Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities (Princeton University Press, 2013), the co-edited volume Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power, and the co-authored Against Happiness. A scholar of global Confucianism and comparative studies of ritual, she has written on the historical production of knowledge of Confucianism as a world religion; gender in contemporary Confucianism; and theoretical and methodological issues in the comparative study of religion and spirituality.