David W. Kim

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David W. Kim (PhD: Syd) is a Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University (2023-2024), an Associate Professor of History at the College of General Education, Kookmin University, Seoul, a Mission Specialist of ANU Institute for Space, Australian National University, Canberra, and Director for Korea Institute for Astronauts. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, UK, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK, an Editor for Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, the Editor for the Book Series in East Asian Religion and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK), the Chair for ANU Religion Committee, ANU, and the Chair of the National Association of Foreign Scholars in Korea (NAFSIK: https://sites.google.com/view/nafsik/ ). Kim’s publications include Silk Road Footprints: Transnational Transmission of Sacred Thoughts and Historical Legacy (USA, 2025), Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope (Rowman and Littlefield 2024), Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth and Religiosity (Palgrave Macmilliam, 2021), The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition (Routledge, 2021), New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Sociocultural Alternatives (Lexington, 2020), Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation and Transmission of a New Religion (CSP, 2020), Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society: Collision, Alteration and Transmission (Lexington, 2017), Religious Transformation in Modern Asia: A Transnational Movement (Brill, 2015) and Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean (Continuum, 2012).

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