[CFP] Between the Sacred and the Secular – Columbia
Workshop on the sacred and the secular in Korea, convened at Columbia University in November 2018. Due March 31, 2018.… more
Workshop on the sacred and the secular in Korea, convened at Columbia University in November 2018. Due March 31, 2018.… more
Dr. Tatsiong Benny Liew and the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross has convened a great conference on “Religion, Protest and Social Upheaval” this week (November 15-17, 2017). I’ll be presenting a paper titled “Between Dissent and Heresy: Queer Politics in Korea,” discussing events that have led up to the preposterous recent charge by a major Korean Presbyterian denomination that affirming queer sexualities and nonconforming gender identities constitute heresy.… more
“Becoming Visible, Becoming Political: Faith and Queer Activism in South Korea” has been published in Scholar & Feminist Online 14.2,… more
A short primer on my ongoing/upcoming work on queer geopolitics in East Asia Forum Quarterly, published by the Australian National University. I highlighted the Christian Liberal Party (CLP), military conscription system, HIV/AIDS, and Islamophobia on the rise.… more
Progressive Catholics in solidarity with workers on an ongoing aerial/high-rise strike, now on Day 157.… more
I’m giving a talk at McGill this Friday. ‘If you build it, they will come’? Protestant megachurches and contentious religious… more
Interesting CFP. Geographers have developed a strong interest in religion and religiosity in recent years as they have come to acknowledge the centrality of faith, religion and belief to people’s identities, ways of life, and spatial practices. In approaching geographies of religions from a critical perspective, scholars are concerned not only with patterns of religious practice and belief, but also with the ways that religious discourses, institutions, and practices mediate social relationships and are woven into the exercise of power and authority at multiple scales…… more
Call for Papers – Journal of Korean Religions October 2013 –Vol. 4, No. 2 Special Issue – “North Korea and… more