<style type='text/css'>

.Bold { font-weight: bold; }

.Title { font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; color: #cc3300; }

.Code { border: #8b4513 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px;color: #000066; font-family: 'Courier New' , Monospace;background-color: #ff9933; }

</style><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3">The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 56th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, April 18th at 6:00 pm in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall. The speaker will be Salamanca University Ph.D. Candidate in Contemporary History <strong>Susana Luengo Gallego</strong>.  Her talk will be </font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum">"</span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang"><font size="3">The Global Renaissance of the Religious Phenomenon: an Interpretation within the context of Contemporary </font></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum">."  </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3">The abstract of her paper can be found at the end of this email.   

<p> </p>

</font></span></font></p>

<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, the discussion, and the reception. Contact Cedar Bough Saeji at 016-525-3239, </font><a href="mailto:umyang@gmail.com"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">umyang@gmail.com</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> for further inquiries.  

<p> </p>

</font></font></span></p>

<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> 

<p> </p>

</font></font></span></p>

<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Sincerely,

<p> </p>

</font></font></span></p>

<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Hyuk-Rae Kim

<p> </p>

</font></font></span></p>

<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Professor of Korean Studies

<p> </p>

</font></font></span></p>

<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">GSIS,

<place w:st="on">

<placename w:st="on">Yonsei</placename>

<placetype w:st="on">University</placetype>

</place>

<p> </p>

</font></font></span></p>

<div style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 6pt double; PADDING-RIGHT: 1pt; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 6pt double; PADDING-LEFT: 1pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 6pt double; PADDING-TOP: 1pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 6pt double; mso-element: para-border-div; mso-border-top-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-left-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-right-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-color-alt: windowtext; mso-border-width-alt: 6.0pt">

<p style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-top-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-left-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-right-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-color-alt: windowtext; mso-border-width-alt: 6.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Abstract:</span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <span lang="EN-GB">

<p> </p>

</span></span></font></p>

<p style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-top-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-left-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-right-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-color-alt: windowtext; mso-border-width-alt: 6.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Confucianism and Christianity have fought for hegemony within the context of

<place w:st="on"></place>

<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">for<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> more than a century. Both have sought to resolve spiritual, moral, political and educational demands using a system of thought <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">meant to <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">be embraced by both the individual and society at large. The original goal for Christians <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">was <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">the pursuit of a separate, ultimate and transcendental end, while Confucians <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">adhered to<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> the <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">ideal<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> of harmon<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">izing<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> individuals, society, nature and <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">the <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">cosmos holistic<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">ally<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">. In this research I contend that during the evolution and interaction<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang"> of these two thought systems<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> there ha<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">s<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> been mutual influence and interference<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  the most controversial aspects <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">of both <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">have been eroded and th<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">is has <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> brought about distinct<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">ive<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> results. <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">First<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">,<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> Christianity <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">was <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">adapted and indigenised, losing its transcendental meaning<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">; <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  nowadays Confucianism <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">can be said to <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">have adopted some of the features and style of Christianity. Within the <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">over-arching <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">frame of the global renaissance of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  religious phenomenon<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang"> today <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Korea presents<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  two examples where the symbiosis between the two<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang"> thought systems<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> has fully operated: the Hyanggyo Academy and the Theology of Liberation Church, where concepts of faith, transcendence, involvement <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">in<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> religion and politics, and emphasis on morality and education have switched and swapped from one side to another<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang">,<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> bringing about alternative religious and moral options to fulfil the demands of the Contemporary world.

<p> </p>

</span></font></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-top-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-left-alt: thick-thin-medium-gap; mso-border-bottom-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-right-alt: thin-thick-medium-gap; mso-border-color-alt: windowtext; mso-border-width-alt: 6.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Keywords:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> Confucianism, Christianity, symbiosis, syncretism, secularisation, modernisation</span></font><span style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Gulim; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> </span></font></p>

</div><br><br>*****************************************<BR>

Hyuk-Rae Kim, Ph.D. in Sociology<BR>

Professor, Korean Studies Program<BR>

Director, Institute for Modern Korean Studies<BR>

Graduate School of International Studies<BR>

Yonsei University<BR>

Seoul, 120-749 KOREA<BR>

Office    Tel: +82-2-2123-4705  Fax: +82-2-392-3321<BR>

Institute Tel: +82-2-212304437  Fax: +82-2-362-1651 <BR>

Mobile: 010-4710-4705<BR>

E-mail : hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr/ imks@yonsei.ac.kr<BR>

http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr<BR>

*****************************************

<img src="http://mail.yonsei.ac.kr:80/receiveMDNResponse.do?from=hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr&mid=1857846363.1144592490359.JavaMail.root%40mail&store=%2Findex03%2Fyonsei.ac.kr%2F384%2Fhyukrae&host=mail.yonsei.ac.kr&to=Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws&" height=1 width=1>