Religious Studies: Pori Park

Assistant Professor of Religion in Korea
Ph.D., UCLA
Arrived at ASU 2002

Office: ECA 326
Phone: (480) 727-7768 or 965-7145
E-mail: Park.Pori@asu.edu
CV: (PDF)

Research Interests

Buddhism, Sŏn Buddhism, Korean Religions, and the interaction between Buddhism, modernity, and nationalism.

Biography

Pori Park (Ph.D., UCLA, 1998/ Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures) is an Assistant Professor of Religion in Korea.

Courses Taught

REL 345 - Asian Religious Traditions

REL 351 - Buddhism

REL 379 - Religion, Nationalism, and Ethnic Conflict

REL 394 - Folk Religions of Korea

REL 394 - Religious Traditions of Korea
REL 494/598 - Zen Buddhism

Selected Publications

“A Korean Buddhist Response to Modernity: The Doctrinal
Underpining of Han Yongun’s (1879–1944) Reformist Thought,” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 20/1 (2007).

“The Buddhist Purification Movement in Post-Colonial South Korea: Restoring Clerical Celibacy and State Intervention,” in Identity Conflict: Can Violence be Regulated?, edited by J. Craig Jenkins and Esther E. Gottlieb, Transaction Publishers, 2007.

“Buddhism in Contemporary Korea,” in Buddhism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Stephen Berkwitz, ABC-CLIO, pp. 195-217, 2006.

“Korean Buddhist Reforms and Problems in the Adoption of Modernity during the Colonial Period,” Korea Journal 45/1 (Spring 2005): 87-113.