[KS] panels on Korean Religions at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion

Tue Nov 15 11:01:32 EST 2011

The Korean Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) will
host two panels on Korean religions at the annual meeting of the AAR which
will be held in San Francisco, November 19-22, 2011.

The first panel (Saturday, Nov. 19, 4:00-6:30 pm ) discusses Korean
Confucianism in modern context.

The second panel (Monday, Nov 21, 9:00-11:30 am) deals with the issue of the
Christianity’s adaptation to the Korean context.

Below are details of these panels.

If you are in the San Francisco area, or will be at the AAR, please come to
these panels and join other Koreanists.

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Jin Y. Park

Tim S. Lee

Co-chairs 

Korean Religions Group

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A19- 313     

Confucian Traditions Group and Korean Religions Group

	Theme: Korean Confucianism in a Modern Context: A Challenge to the
Twenty-first Century

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Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Room: MM-Nob Hill B 

Joseph Adler, Kenyon College, Presiding

This panel is designed to appraise the significance of the Confucian
traditions in Korea. Since the fall of the Choson Dynasty (1910) in Korea,
Confucianism has lost its privileged position and government sponsorship as
the state ideology. Over the last one hundred years, Confucianism was blamed
for most, if not all, social ills that have affected Korea and was
stigmatized as a negative force in the process of the modernization of
Korea. This panel focuses on three specific areas of Korean society to
elucidate the perils and promises of Confucianism as it faces the new
century. Three panelists will discuss the following: 1) Confucian
religiosity and humanism; 2) The Confucian ideal and women’s subjectivity;
and 3) The Confucian principle and democratic institution.

Theme: Korean Confucianism in a Modern Context: A Challenge to the
Twenty-first Century

Jung-Yeup Kim, Kent State University

The Religious Significance of Confucian Ritual Propriety Education in
Twenty-first Century South Korea

Un-sunn Lee, Sejong University

Korean Confucianism and Women’s Subjectivity in the Twenty-first Century

Young-chan Ro, George Mason University

Confucianism and Democracy in Korea

Marion Eggert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Ultimate Pursuits: Religion, Knowledge, and Epistemology in Early Modern
Korean Confucianism (Mid-nineteenth Century)

Responding:

Robert C. Neville, Boston University

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A21-118     Business Meeting  

Korean Religions Group

	Theme: Adaptation of Christianity to the Korean Context

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Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Room: CC-2020 

A. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo, Presiding

This panel will discuss issues related to Christianity’s adaptation to the
Korean context in a variety of ways: 1) The way early Korean Catholics
adapted their faith to the Korean context — from an accommodationist to a
separatist way — through an examination of their early literature; 2) The
institution of anbang — women’s inner quarters — which served as a vehicle
for Protestantism’s adaptation to the Korean milieu; 3) The significance of
indigenization for Korean women, arguing that the development has had an
ambiguous — both liberative and oppressive — consequences for them; and 4)
Yu Yong-mo, a creative thinker known for his efforts to theologically adapt
Christianity to the Korean context, including how Yu sought to interpret the
Old Testament in the Korean context and Yu’s theology in light of Derridean
concepts.

Theme: Adaptation of Christianity to the Korean Context

Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah

>From Syncretism to Separation: The Changing Emphasis in Early Korean
Catholic Literature

Lee-Ellen Strawn, Seoul Foreign School

Sharing the Anbang: Korean Bible Women and North American Women
Missionaries, 1888–1930

Hee An Choi, Boston University

Korean Women and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Indigenization of Korean
Protestantism

Heup Young Kim, Kang Nam University

Confucianism as Old Testaments: Confucian–Christian Relations in the Thought
of Dasuk Yu Yong-mo

Kee Boem So, New York Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Mystical Union with God: A Dialogue between Yu Yong-mo and Jacques Derrida

Responding:

Seo Bomyung, Chicago Theological Seminary

Business Meeting:

Jin Y. Park, American University

Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School

Jin Y. Park

Associate Professor

Department of Philosophy and Religion

American University

4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW

Washington DC, 20016

Tel: 202.885.2919

jypark at american.edu

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