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[David Kim]

Dear Korean Studies,

can you please post this call for papers for a special issue of the journal
*Religions*?

Thank you so much!

--David J Kim


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Dear Colleagues,

Call for Papers *Religions*

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/QWDQWCRS31

While there has undoubtedly been substantial research into Korea’s
religious intellectual history, it has sometimes been caught up in
nationalist tropes, presenting scholars of the past as cultural heroes who
are rarely criticised, while women, in particular, have been marginalised
and ignored to a large degree. Other figures, of all genders and
orientations, have also been marginalised in modern Korea due to the
lingering legacy of colonialism and dominant genealogical methodologies
narratives, both internal and external to Korean scholarship, across
multiple disciplines.

This Special Issue calls for more comparative studies and interdisciplinary
perspectives on Korea’s philosophical and religious thought. We are looking
for innovative techniques, approaches, theories, and methods that lead to
more fruitful encounters with religion as a historical, embodied, and
socially dynamic phenomenon.

Our main goal for this Special Issue is to promote the growth of
interdisciplinary and innovative research methodologies within the study of
the religious intellectual history of Korea and its religious practices.
Overall, our goal is to show how various multilayered and nonreductive
techniques and approaches may improve our comprehension of Korea’s
religious traditions and practices.

We have a particular interest in highlighting research that may include (1)
collaborative research across cultural boundaries, (2) diverse contexts and
approaches, (3) rejections of an exclusive reliance on singular
perspectives or methodologies, (4) research drawing from a transnational
perspective, and (5) unique perspectives on the effects of religion as
experiential and entwined with everyday life (both sociological and
historical). The call is open to any research in relevant subject areas
across the humanities and social sciences.

This issue of *Religions* is posed to collect a series of mutually
complementary scholarly contributions, reflecting the intertwining
trajectory of philosophical and religious traditions in Korea’s past and
present, shaping their futures.

To this end, we ask contributors to consider, some of the following
overarching issues:

   - Have key figures been sufficiently critically examined? Which figures
   have been neglected? Which have been overstudied and why?
   - How can ideas from Korea’s religious traditions be helpful for us
   today in the 21st century?
   - Which critical theories might be helpful in broadening our
   understanding of important religions, institutions, practices, theories,
   and key figures?
   - How can a re-examination of material culture and artifacts reveal new
   insights into religious beliefs and practices in Korea, both past and
   present?
   - How does religion generate dynamic phenomenological experiences and
   intensities that shape both communities and subjectivities?

Dr. Kevin N. Cawley
Dr. David J. Kim
*Guest Editors*


Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering
<https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/> and logging in to this website
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go to the submission form
<https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=religions>.
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass
pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously
in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the
special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short
communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract
(about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on
this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a
double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant
information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions
for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/instructions> page.
*Religions* <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/> is an international
peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/instructions> page before
submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC)
<https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/> for publication in this open access
<https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/> journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss
Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English.
Authors may use MDPI's English editing service
<https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english> prior to publication or during
author revisions.

Keywords

   - Korean religion
   - Confucianism
   - Buddhism
   - Shamanism
   - new religious movements
   - transculturalism
   - comparative studies
   - everyday life
   - magic and divination
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