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| Hwansoo I. Kim, Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Religion
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 118 Gray Building | | Office Phone: | (919) 660-3500 | | Email Address: |   | Teaching (Spring 2012):
- RELIGION 44.01, BUDDHISM
Synopsis
- Carr 240, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- AMES 118S.01, RELIGION AND CULTURE IN KOREA
Synopsis
- Languages 207, M 02:50 PM-05:10 PM
- (also cross-listed as RELIGION 161YS.01)
- Office Hours:
- Fri 11:00 - 1:00
- Education:
| PhD | Harvard University | 2007 |
| MTS | Harvard Divinity School | 2002 |
| BS | Dongguk University | 1996 |
- Specialties:
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Korean
- Curriculum Vitae Bio
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- H. Kim, Empire of Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912
(April, 2012)
- Vermeersch, Sem, The Power of the Buddhas: the Politics of Buddhism during the Koryŏ Dynasty (918-1392).,
Journal of Korean Religion
(March, 2011)
- H.I. Kim, “A Buddhist Christmas: The Buddha’s Birthday Festival in Colonial Korea (1928–1945),
Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 2 no. 2
(2011),
pp. 47-82
- Kendall, Laurel, Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion,
Journal of Religion, vol. 91 no. 4
(2011),
pp. 585-587, The University of Chicago
- Park, Pori, 'Korean Buddhism during the Colonial Period (1810-1945) and Han Yongun's Reforms,
H-Buddhism
(November, 2010)
HWANSOO ILMEE KIM (2009) received his Ph.D. in the colonial history of Korean and Japanese Buddhism from Harvard University in 2007. He has a BA in the history of East Asian Buddhism and Yogacara philosophy from Dongguk University in Seoul, Korea (1996) and received his master’s in Buddhism and the sociology and theory of religion at Harvard Divinity School (2002). Before joining Duke, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Reischauer Institute (2007) and assistant professor at the University of Arizona (2008).
Professor Kim’s primary research concerns Korean Buddhism in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the context of colonialism, imperialism, and modernity. His broader scholarship includes East Asian religions, the modernization of Buddhism, monasticism, clerical marriage, rituals, and ethics. Recent articles, among others, are "The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei’s Zen Training with Korean Masters" (2008); “'The Future of Korean Buddhism Lies in My Hands': Takeda Hanshi as a Sōtō Missionary" (2010); “A Buddhist Colonialism?: A New Perspective on the Korean Wŏnjong and Japanese Sōtōshū’s 1910 Attempted Alliance” (2010). He recently completed his book titled Strategic Alliances: the Dynamic Relationship between Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 (forthcoming Harvard Asia Center 2011). The book brings to light that Korean monks, aware of the political, economic, and social stature of Japanese Buddhist missionaries, strategically allied themselves with Japanese sects to further their personal and institutional aims. This revision also highlight how Christianity, as a significant other, informed Korean and Japanese Buddhists’ approach to institutional structures, foreign missionary efforts, and modernity. |
