The Hong Kong Institute of Jingjiao Studies is pleased to announce the publication of a new article by Dr. David Tam, “Jingjiao Studies Today: Sources, Methods, and Emerging Directions,” in the Journal for the Study of Religion and History, No. 4 (2026), pp. 21–70.
The article offers a selective review of major areas of recent Jingjiao research, focusing on new discoveries, renewed debates and methodological developments that are reshaping the field. It examines scholarship on Turfan and Tangchaodun in Xiyu, Yishen lun, Xuting mishisuo jing, the Jingjiao Stele, P. 3847 and the writings listed in Zunjing, alongside materials from Inner Mongolia and Quanzhou and recent debates concerning manuscript authenticity and evidentiary status.
Across these areas, the article highlights the productive relationship between broad historical reconstruction and close examination of individual manuscripts, inscriptions, objects and archaeological sites. It argues that recent advances have often emerged by testing wider historical interpretations against particular evidence, reopening questions of provenance, transmission, textual formation, authorship, classification and authenticity. Together, these developments point to a field that is increasingly interdisciplinary and methodologically self-reflective.
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