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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The first panel (Saturday, Nov. 19, 4:00-6:30 pm ) discusses Korean Confucianism in modern context.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The second panel (Monday, Nov 21, 9:00-11:30 am) deals with the issue of the Christianity’s adaptation to the Korean context.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Below are details of these panels.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you are in the San Francisco area, or will be at the AAR, please come to these panels and join other Koreanists.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jin Y. Park<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tim S. Lee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Co-chairs <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Korean Religions Group<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>***<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr><tr><td colspan=4 valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=bottom style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>A19- 313</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top 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<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td colspan=2 valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Confucian Traditions Group and <span style='background:yellow'>Korean Religions Group</span></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Theme: <i>Korean Confucianism in a Modern Context: A Challenge to the Twenty-first Century</i><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <img width=11 height=11 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image001.gif@01CCA07E.F5DF5740" alt="Show Session Details"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Show Session Details</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <img width=11 height=11 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image002.gif@01CCA07E.F5DF5740" alt="Hide Session Details"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><br><b>Room: MM-Nob Hill B</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Joseph Adler, Kenyon College, Presiding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Theme: <i>Korean Confucianism in a Modern Context: A Challenge to the Twenty-first Century</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Jung-Yeup Kim, Kent State University<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>The Religious Significance of Confucian Ritual Propriety Education in Twenty-first Century South Korea</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Un-sunn Lee, Sejong University<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Korean Confucianism and Women’s Subjectivity in the Twenty-first Century</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Young-chan Ro, George Mason University<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Confucianism and Democracy in Korea</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Marion Eggert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Ultimate Pursuits: Religion, Knowledge, and Epistemology in Early Modern Korean Confucianism (Mid-nineteenth Century)</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Responding:<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Robert C. Neville, Boston University<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#5B98AA' align=center></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td colspan=2 valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=bottom style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p 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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;background:yellow'>Korean Religions Group</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 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<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=3 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <img width=11 height=11 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image002.gif@01CCA07E.F5DF5740" alt="Hide Session Details"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><br><b>Room: CC-2020</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>A. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo, Presiding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Theme: <i>Adaptation of Christianity to the Korean Context</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>From Syncretism to Separation: The Changing Emphasis in Early Korean Catholic Literature</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Lee-Ellen Strawn, Seoul Foreign School<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Sharing the Anbang: Korean Bible Women and North American Women Missionaries, 1888–1930</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Hee An Choi, Boston University<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Korean Women and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Indigenization of Korean Protestantism</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Heup Young Kim, Kang Nam University<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Confucianism as Old Testaments: Confucian–Christian Relations in the Thought of Dasuk Yu Yong-mo</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Kee Boem So, New York Presbyterian Theological Seminary<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Mystical Union with God: A Dialogue between Yu Yong-mo and Jacques Derrida</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Responding:<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Seo Bomyung, Chicago Theological Seminary<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Business Meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Jin Y. Park, American University<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jin Y. Park<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Department of Philosophy and Religion<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>American University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Washington DC, 20016<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tel: 202.885.2919<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:jypark@american.edu">jypark@american.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>