My research focuses on American Protestant missionaries in Korea in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Particularly, I am working on their social enterprise including education as well as their cultural and political attitudes in r
...MoreMy research focuses on American Protestant missionaries in Korea in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Particularly, I am working on their social enterprise including education as well as their cultural and political attitudes in relation to Japanese colonial rule in Korea. Generally, I am interested in religion and politics, religious education in modern society, the role of power in manufacturing concepts of religion and secularity along with separation of church and state.
I myself went to a missionary high school and then I graduated from a national university in Korea with two majors in Religious Studies and English, and I also studied Education. I compared the history of a Korean indigenous religion with Jewish Mosaic tradition in my master's thesis.
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Religion in Society
