| Hwansoo Kim, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Contact Info:
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- Office Hours:
- Thursday, 1-2:30pm
- Education:
Ph.D. | Harvard University | 2007 |
MTS | Harvard Divinity School | 2002 |
BS | Dongguk University | 1996 |
- Specialties:
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Buddhism
East Asian Religions Culture
- Research Interests: Korean Buddhism, Korean religions and culture, Buddhist monasticism and ethics, modernity and colonialism
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, Buddhist modernities, transnational Buddhism, monasticism, clerical marriage, rituals, and ethics.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Jeffrey Nicholaisen
- Mani Rao
- Seth Ligo
- Yeongjin Cho
- Uri Kaplan
- Jeff Schroeder
- Matthew Mitchell
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Kim, H. "Seeking the colonizer’s favours for a buddhist vision: The korean buddhist nationalist paek yongsŏng’s (1864-1940) imje sŏn movement." Buddhist Modernities: Re-Inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World. January, 2017, 66-88. [doi]
- Kim, H. "Buddhism during the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910): A Collective Trauma?." 22:1 (2017): 101-142. [doi] [abs]
- Nakanishi Naoki. "Colonial Korea and Japanese Buddhism (Chōsen Shokuminichi to Nihon Bukkyō)." Japanese Religions Journal (May, 2015).
- H.I. Kim. "'The Mystery of the Century’: Lay Buddhist Monk Villages (Chaegasŭngch’on) Near Korea’s Northernmost Border, 1600s–1960s." Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 26:2 (December,
April, 2014): 269-305. [abs]
- H.I. Kim. "Social Stigmas of Buddhist Monastics and the Lack of Lay Buddhist Leadership in Colonial Korea (1910–1945)." Korea Journal 26:2 (December,
February, 2014): 269-305. [abs]
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