The Cold War and South Korean Christianity
4:30 PM EDT
George Mason’s Religious Studies Department offers a wide selection of courses and degree programs for an intensive study into a singular religion, comparative study across various religions, and cross-disciplinary study on the engagement between religion with other areas of human life, like politics and ethics, science, the arts and literature, philosophy, etc.
Through teaching and their own research, faculty offer students opportunities to study the influence of various aspects of religion throughout the cultures of the Americas, Asia, and Europe and wider Mediterranean, and across diverse historical contexts.
The substantive and critical thinking skills fostered in Religious Studies makes it an ideal degree that compliments every career, especially those that require further graduate or professional school studies, let alone a more edified life.
Professor Paul S. Cha (Modern and Classical Languages, Korean Studies) will discuss his just-published book, Forging Protestant Allies: How the Cold War Recast South Korea as a Landscape of Christian Vitality. Why has South Korea long been heralded as a Christian "success story" when only about 30 percent of its population identifies as Christian? Professor Cha shows that the popularization of South Korea's image as a Protestant stronghold took shape during the Korean War.
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