<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: "SF Optimized", system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Journal of Korean Religions (JKR) would like to announce the October 2017 publication of Volume 8, Number 2, "Religion and Media in Korea."</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: "SF Optimized", system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This issue, guest edited by Kyuhoon Cho, Sam Han, and Jin Kyu Park, reflects the collaborative efforts of many scholars to illuminate “simultaneous blind spots” between the fields of religion and media studies, to point towards the dynamic interactions that mutually shape these social forces, and to bring further interest to the conti<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">nued study of the same, particularly by looking at Korea as a space where the implications of these interactions have been and remain so visible.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: "SF Optimized", system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;">|Articles|<br class="">Guest Editors’ Introduction <br class="">Jin Kyu Park, Kyuhoon Cho, & Sam Han</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">History of Religious Broadcasting in Korea from a Religious Politics Standpoint: A Focus on the Period of a Protestant Broadcasting Monopoly<br class="">Sungmin Lee</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">The Role of Newspapers in the Early Korean Protestant Community: An Analysis of The Korean Christian Advocate and The Christian News<br class="">Minjung Noh</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">Religion in the Press: The Construction of Religion in the Korean News Media<br class="">Kyuhoon Cho</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">The Culture-Religion Nexus: (Neo-)Durkheimianism and Mediatized Confucianism in Korean “Piety Travel” <br class="">Sam Han</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">Authenticity, Brand Culture, and Templestay in the Digital Era: The Ambivalence and In-Between-Ness of Korean Buddhism <br class="">Seung Soo Kim</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">|Research Articles|<br class="">Dens of Feudalism: North Korean Discourse on Confucian Academies<br class="">Vladimir Glomb and Lee Eun-Jeung</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">The Debate on the State of Unarousedness between Oeam and Namdang<br class="">Liju Xing and Xi Lin</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">|Book Reviews|<br class="">A Korean Confucian Way of Life and Thought: The Chasŏngnok (Record of Self-Reflection) by Yi Hwang (T’oegye)<br class="">Reviewed by Halla Kim</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America<br class="">Reviewed by Kirsteen Kim</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">We also want to inform scholars from all disciplines about our continuing call for papers on all topics pertaining to Korean religion. 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You can also find us digitally on Project Muse, JSTOR, and the Thomson Reuters A&HCI.</p><p class="" style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">Best wishes,<br class="">Kim Seong-nae<br class="">Don Baker<br class="">Editors-in-Chief, Journal of Korean Religions</p></div></body></html>