CURRICULUM VITAE

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                               CURRICULUM  VITAE

                           CHONGSUH  KIM         

                                                                                              

*Born of the 10th of August, 1952

*Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shillim-dong, Kwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

*Home Address: Banpo Hillstate Apt. 101-502, Banpo 2  Dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul,       06549, Korea

*Master of the house (spouse, two children & two granddaughter)

*82-10-2738-3816  chongsuh@snu.ac.kr , ck6242@hanmail.net

*Graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph. D. in Religious

Studies, December 1983).

Ph. D. Thesis: Religious Pluralism and the Concept of Religious Reval‎orization -

A Study in the Thought of Mircea Eliade and Peter L. Berger. 

*Attended the graduate course of the Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (in

Religious Studies, August 1979)

*Graduated from the Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (B.A. in Religious

Studies, February 1976)

*2017 to present: Chair of Steering Committee, the 5th World Humanities Forum 

*2016 to present: President, Korean Association for the Study of New Religions

* 2014 to 2016: Chair, Presidential Committee for Humanity and  Cultural Enrichment

 in Korea

* 2014 to 2016: Vice President and Dean of Graduate  School, Seoul National

University.

*2011 to 2011: President, Korean Association of University Presses.

*2011 to 2014: Director, Seoul National University Press.

*2010 to 2013: Chairman, Advisory Committee on Religious Discrimination of Public

Offiicials, Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

*2009: Head of Korean Delegation to Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) the 5th Interfaith Dialogue 

*2009 to 2011: Member, Presidential Committee on Library and Information Policy

*2009: Vice President, Korean Association for the University Libraries

*2009: President, Korea Council on National College & University Libraries   

*2009 to 2011: Director, General,  Seoul National University Library

*2008: Head of Korean Delegation to Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) the 4th Interfaith Dialogue

*2006 to 2007: Visiting Scholar, University of Tokyo

*2003 to present: Academic Executive Member, International Association for the

History of Religions(IAHR)

*2003 to 2005: President, Korean Association for History of Religions

*2000 to 2014: President, Center for Religious Studies at Seoul National University

*2000 to 2001: Columnist, The Chosun Ilbo (Newspaper)

*1999 to 2000: Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley

*1998 to 1999: Advisor for Korean Ministry of Culture

*1997 to 1999: Advisor for Korean Ministry of Education

*1997 to 2005: Chairman, Department of Religious Studies, Seoul National

University

*1996 to 1996: Visiting Scholar, School of Theology at Claremont.

*1995 to present: Member, American Academy of Religion(AAR)

*1995 to 2005: Editor, Journal of Religious Studies (in Korea).

*1993 to present: Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Seoul National

University.

*1988 to 1989: Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard

University.

*1986 to 1988: Head, the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Editor, Spirit and

Culture, The Academy of Korean Studies.

*1984 to 1993: Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, The Academy of

Korean Studies.

 MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

1) "Korean Youth's Religion Today," Monthly Dialogue 51 (1974)

2) "Understanding and Overcoming of Religious Pluralism," Spirit and Culture 21

(1984)

3) "Modern Meaning of New Year Ceremony," Minjokjiseong (National Intelligence) (1986)

4) "Religion as a Mediating Structure: A Suggestion for a Positive Religious Policy," Spirit and Culture 29 (1986)

5) "Religious Meaning of Seoul," Spirit and Culture (1986)

6) "On 'American Civil Religion'," American Studies (Seoul National University) 9

(1986)

7) "The Role of Religion in Modern Societies," Contemporary Society 25  (1987)

8) "Theories of Secularization in the Sociology of Religion ," Religion and Modern

Society, Seogwangsa (1987)

9) "A Religio-comparative Understanding of Religious Truths," A Thinking Life, The Academy of Korean Studies, (1987)

10) "The Theoretical Background of Eliade's History of Religions," Spirit and Culture 34 (1988)

11) "Social Issues of New Religions," Kyunghyang (1988)

12) A Korean Translation of J. Wach's The Comparative Study of Religion, Minumsa (1988)

13) "Modern Issues of Religious Legal System: With a Special Reference to the Legal Status of Religious Organizations in Korea," The Legal Status of Religious

Organization, Institute for Korean Religious Society (1989)

14) "Religion in Contemporary Korean Society," Proceedings of the Korean-Japanese Religious Association (1989)

15) "Religious Education in Contemporary Society," Education of Humanities in

Korea, The Academy of Korean Studies (1989)

16) "Liberation Theologies in Korean Context," New Trends in Liberation Theologies, The Academy of Korean Studies (1989)

17) "A Phenomenological Study of Inter-religious Dialogues," Issues in Philosophy & Religion V, The Academy of Korean Studies (1989)

18) "A Comparative Study of Religious Views: East & West," Issues in Philosophy & Religion V, The Academy of Korean Studies (1989)

19) "Religion and Politics in Contemporary Korea," Society & Thoughts (1990)

20) "A Study of the Japanese Kokutai," The History of Korean Philosophy & Religion (1990)

21) "The Concept of Traditional Thought," Modern Meaning of Traditional Thought, The Academy of Korean Studies (1990)

22) "A Study of Modern Church-Sect Theory," Spirit and Culture (1990)

23) "P. Berger's Theory of Religious Pluralism," Issues in Philosophy & Religion VI, The Academy of Korean Studies (1990)

24) "The Maintenance Theory of Modern Religious Organizations," Spirit and Culture (1991)

25) "De-differentiation and Sacredness," Spiritual World: East & West (1991)

26) "A Theoretical Study of Modern Religious Legal System," Spirit and Culture

(1992)

27) "Contemporary Western Religious Thought and Its Meaning for Korean

Religion," New Trends of Contemporary Thoughts, The Academy of Korean Studies (1992)

28) "Religious Pluralism and Its Meaning for Korean Theology," Preservation of

Creation and Korean Theology, Korea Association of Christian Studies (1992)

29) "A Theoretical Study of Church and State in Modern Society," Spirit and Culture (1993)

30) "A History of Korean Religious Studies in the Modernization Period," A Historical Outline of Korean Thoughts, The Academy of Korean Studies (1993)

31) "Eastern Learning: An Overcoming of Religious Pluralism," Reader in Korean Religion, The Academy of Korean Studies (1993)

32) "Research Methods of the Modern Sociology of Religion," Spirit and Culture

(1993)

33) "Dialogues with Christianity: A Non-Christian Position," Religious Pluralism and Religious Ethic, Seoul National University (1994)

34) "Religious Beliefs and the Crisis of Human Nature," The 2nd Korean/German Joint Philosophical Seminar (1994)

35) "A Theoretical Study of Contemporary New Religions," Understanding of

Contemporary New Religions, The Academy of Korean Studies (1994)

36) "Ch. 9: Early Western Studies of Korean Religions," Korean Studies: New Pacific Currents, University of Hawaii (1994)

37) "Fragmentations of the Sacredness?" Phenomenon and Cognition (1995)

38) "Religion in the Social Context," Religion and Culture (1995)

39) "A History of the Korean Sociology of Religion," Religious Studies (1995)

40) "American Beliefs and Civil Religion," Religious Studies (1996)

41) "A Theoretical Study of the Co-relation between Social Types and Religious

Patterns," Religion and Culture (1996)

42) "Clergyman in a Changing Age," Clerical Education in a Changing Age, Yungsan Won-Buddhist University (1997)

43) "The Current Intellectual Change in American Religion," American Studies (1997)

44) "Finance in Korean Buddhist Temples," Buddhism and Culture 27 (1998)

45) "Modern Meaning on the Interrelation Theory between Religion and

Economics," Journal of Religious Studies 17 (1998)

46) "Secularization and Liberation Movements in Contemporary American

Religion, American Studies (1998).

47) "Sectarianism of New Religious Movements," Korean Religion 23 (1998)

48)“Contemporary Korean Society and Understanding Multi-religious Situation,”

Modern Viewpoints of Korean Religions, (1998)

49) “A Social Analysis of Closed Faith Groups,” Religious Phenomena in the End of

the Century, (1999)

50) A Korean Translation of Walter H. Capps's Religious Studies: The Making of a

Discipline (1999)

51) "Science, Religion and Environment," Religion and Science (2000)

52) “A Study of Korean Religious Pluralism and its Uniqueness,” Journal of

Religious Studies (2000)

53) “Growth of American Conservative Churches and the Pursuit of New

Spirituality,” American Studies (2000)

54) “Environmental Ethics and the Future of Religion,” Chonghyup, (2001)

55) Korean View of Religion (2001)

56) “Problems of Critical Reports on Religious Bodies,” Kwanhun Journal,

(2001)

59) “Socio-cultural Changes and Religious Cognition of the Modernization

Period in Korea,” Korean Culture, (2001)

60) “Problems and Prospectus of Religious Education in Korea,” Journal of

Religious Studies, (2001)

61) “Comparative Method of Modern Religious Studies – With a Special

Reference to ‘New Comparativism,” Philosophical Thoughts, (2002)

62) “Occultism” Encyclopedia of Korean Catholicism (2002)

63) “A Critical Study of Korean Church History,” Research for the Korean

Church History (2002)

64) “American Religion and the Pursuit of Identity,” American Studies, (2002)

65) “Religious Pluralism of Korea Today,” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, (2002)  

66) “Contemporary Trends and Prospectus of New Religious

Movements,” Mission, (2003)

67) “Religious Education and Development of Religious Studies in the United

States,” Life and Education, (2003)

68) “Religion and Politics in Modern Times,” Understanding Contemporary Politics, (2003)

69) “Westerners’ Studies of Korean Religion,” Korean Life and Tradition, (2004)

70) “A Study of Korean Church History – A Religio-Comparative Perspective,” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, (2004)

71) “Inter-religious Conflicts and Religious Education in Contemporary Korea,”

Unpublished Paper, the 19^th Meeting of International Association for History of

Religions at Tokyo, (2005)

72) “Korean Religion and Religious Studies,” The Keynote Speech in the 64^th

Academic Meeting of Japanese Association for Religious Studies (2005), Japanese

Journal of Religious Studies (2007)

73) Sociology of Religion, Seoul National University Press  (2006)

74) Westerners’ Studies of Korean Religion, Seoul National University Press (2006)

75) “A Religio-typological Reflection on the Concept of New Religion – International

 Changing Mode derived from the North America,” Proceedings of the !st International

 Symposium for World New Religious Movements, Beijing University (2006)

76) “Modernization and the Concept of Korean Religion,” Religion and History (2006)

77) “A Story of Science, Nature and Religion” Lectures in University of Tokyo (2006)

78) “Contemporary religious conflicts and religious education in the Republic of

Korea,” British Journal of Religious Education 29/1 (2007)

79) “High school Religion Textbooks in Contemporary Korea,” Proceedings of Taisho

 University’s 80^th Anniversary International Symposium for Religion Textbooks (2007)

80) “Japan and Korea in the Age of Globalization,” Lecture in Soka University (2007)

81) “Characteristics of Westerners’ Studies on Korean Religion,” Proceedings of the

4^th International Meeting of Japanese-Korean Religious Research Forum, Okayama

(2007)

82) “Interreligious Clash and Dynamic Faith in Contemporary Korea,” The Keynote

Speech for the Australian National University Conference: Religious Innovation in East

Asia, Canberra (2007)

83) Peace Education and Religious Plurality - International Perspectives, (with Robert

Jackson and Sakoto Fujiwara, etc.) London and New York: Routledge (2008)

84) "Coincidetia Oppositorum & Yin-Yang Compelementaity," Compiles of Daesun

Thoughts 2 (2008)

85) “A Story of Science, Nature and Religion” Annual Report of Tokyo University

Religious Studies, XXV (2008)

86) "Modernization of Korean Religion and East Asian Religious Mind," Proceedings

of 2008 Shanghai Forum at Fudan University (2008)

87) "Religious Education as an Interfaith Dialogue: A Korean Case," Proceedings of

the 4th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Interfaith Dialogue (2008)

88) "The Criteria of Governmental Support to Religion and the Establishment of United

 Institute of World Religions," Religion and Cuture (2008)

89) "Contemporary Religious Pluralism & Its Korean Meaning - With a Special

Reference to Its Indian Roots" Proceedings of the Conference for the Research of

Pluralism & Tolerence in Indian Thoughts, The Eastern Institute (Japan) (2008)

90) "East-West Religions & Contemporary Korean Religious Experience," Proceedings of

the 1st International Academic Conference, East Asian Association of Religion and Culture (2009)

91) "The Concept of 'Korean Religion' and Religious Studies in Korea,"  Institute for the

Study of Religion, Proceedings, International Symposium for Journal of Korean Religions:

Problematizing 'Korean Religions,' Sogang University (2009)

92) A Korean Translation of Mircea Eliade's Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversation with

Claude-Henri Rocquet (2011)

93) "The Structure of American Religious Stream," Religion and Cuture (2011)

94) “New Religious Innovation in Contemporary Korea: Inter-Religious Clash,"

presented in The 2012 International Conference, International Society for the

Study of New Religions (CESNUR) held in El Jadida, Moroco (2012)

95) "Korea, Republic of(South Korea)" Encyclopedia of Global Religion, vol. 1,

London: Sage (2012)

96) “The Changing Concept of ‘New Religions’ from a Religio-typological Context,“

presented in The 2013 International Conference, International Society for the

Study of New Religions (CESNUR) held in Dalarna University, Sweden (2013)

97) "The Identity of Korean Religion after 1945," Religion and Cuture (2013)

98) “The Viewpoints of Church History and the Concept of ‘New Religion‘ in

Korea,“ presented in The 2014 International Conference, International Society for

 the Study of New Religions (CESNUR) held in Waco, Texas in U.S.A. (2014)

99) "Public Religion and Religious Policy," the Keynote Speech for the Korean

Association for History of Religions (2014)

100) “The Changing Concept of ’New Religions’ from a Religio-typological Context,“ Religion and Cuture  (2014)

101) “An Introduction for the Study of the common index of religious change in contemporary East Asia,” Keynote Speech for the East Asian Research Forum of Religion, Tenri University(2014)

102) "Clergyman," Dictionary of Historical Terminology (2015)

103) “Religious Diversity and Inter-religious Issues of  Contemporary Korea,” International

Conference: ‘Religious Diversity in Asia,’ held in Aarhus University, Denmark (2015)

104) "The Development of Religious Education & Its Implication for Humanity Education,"

(2016)

106)  “East-West Reigions & New Religious Movements in Contemporary Korea,"

 (2016)

107) “Korean Religious Education as an Interreligious Dialogue,“ In Lyubichankovskiy & Arup Barman eds. Proceedings: International Conference on Issues in

Education, Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,

(2017)

108) Japanese Studies of Korean Religion (Forthcoming)