Chai-Sik Chung

Chai-Sik Chung (July 14, 1930 in Wonju, Korea) is a notable American social ethicist and sociologist of religion. He studied under Walter George Muelder at the Boston University School of Theology, where he has been the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics since 1990. He also studied under Robert N. Bellah at Harvard Divinity School with whom he has been long associated. As a scholar of comparative religious ethics, he has been a pioneer in the study of social and ethical problems arising from East Asia’s modern transformation. He has published widely in both Korean and English, on social and ethical issues involving globalization and encounters between civilizations, particularly those between Korea, East Asian religious traditions and Christianity. His publications include A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World; Korea, Religious Tradition, and Globalization; Consciousness and History: Korean Cultural Tradition and Social Change; Korean Religion and Society Under Challenge: Continuity and Change; and The Clash between Korean Confucianism and Modern Western Civilization.

He has taught at a number of institutions, including Boston University’s College of General Studies and in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. From 1983 to 1987, he served as Director of the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei. In 1986, he served as the Koret Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003, he was the Luce Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and in the following year he served as the Yongjae George L. Paik Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University.

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1. ^ http://www.bu.edu/asian/faculty/c/chung.html

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Name	Chung, Chai-Sik
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Short description	Sociologist of religion
Date of birth	July 14, 1930
Place of birth	Wonju, Korea
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