1. Seeing like a Church, Seeing like a State: Church-State Relation in Religious Asylum Adjudications • Jaeeun Kim, University of Michigan.

2. Communal Secularization in a Secularist State: Religious Change among Hui Muslims in Northwest China since the 1990s • Chang Liu, The New School for Social Research.

3. Circulation of religious elites in late empire: two pathways of state-building in British Malaya • Hanisah Sani, National University of Singapore.