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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=KO link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US>We have a new deadline for submitting proposals to the 2012 meeting of the Korean Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion: March 13, 2012, 11:59 p.m. (E.S.T.). The CFP is below; to submit your proposals, visit the following website: <a href="http://papers.aarweb.org/">http://papers.aarweb.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Call for Papers</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>American Academy of Religion: Korean Religions Group</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Annual Meeting, November 17–20, 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Chicago, Illinois<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The American Academy of Religion is holding its 2012 meeting in Chicago, Illinois, November 17–20, at McCormick Place Convention Center. And the AAR’s Korean Religions Group invites you to submit paper or panel proposals on the following themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:24.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol;color:#1F060A'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'>Interreligious dialogue involving Korean religions in or outside Korea, especially those focusing on Buddhist–Christian dialogue </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:24.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol;color:#1F060A'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'>Religion and the civil in the Korean context, including church and state issues in South Korea — e.g., Buddhists’ protest of Lee Myung Bak’s dedication of Seoul to God or Christians’ protests of the financial support Buddhist temples receive from government </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:24.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol;color:#1F060A'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'>Civil society and religion — e.g., public theology or religious organizations’ advocacy for foreign workers and North Korean refugees </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:24.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol;color:#1F060A'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'>Korean Buddhism in the Silla period/ Korean Buddhist philosophy of mind or modern Korean Buddhism </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:24.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol;color:#1F060A'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'>Korean religions outside Korea </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:24.0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol;color:#1F060A'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F060A'>Institutionalization and unintended consequences in Korean Confucianism </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>For further information about the 2012 meeting, visit, the <i>American Academy of Religion</i> web site (</span><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://mobile.tcu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=cd5cfd471a6e4db196b796c5def424b4&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.aarweb.org%2f" target="_blank" title="http://www.aarweb.org/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>www.aarweb.org</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>). If you have any questions about KRG’s session, please e-mail them to Tim Lee (t.lee@tcu.edu) or Jin Young Park (jypark@american.edu). Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Timothy S. Lee, Co-Chair, Brite Divinity School (Texas Christian University)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;word-break:keep-all'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Jin Young Park, Co-Chair, American University </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:\B9D1\C740\ACE0\B515;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>