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}} Chai-Sik Chung (born July 14, 1930 in Wonju, Korea) is an American social ethicist and sociologist of religion. He studied under Walter George Muelder at the Boston University School of Theology, where he served as the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics from 1990 to 2011. He also studied under the late Robert N. Bellah at Harvard Divinity School with whom he had 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 completed in the summer of 2014 the manuscript for ''The Korean Tradition of Religion, Society, and Ethics: A Comparative Historical Interpretation and Looking Beyond''. Chung 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, South 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 of Korean Christianity 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. In 2011, he retired from the Boston University School of Theology, completing a 50-year teaching career. ==References== 〔Chung, Chai-sik, Korea Religious Tradition and Globalization (IMKS NO.6). Yonsei University Press, 2001〕 〔Logos Almanac of the Christian World https://almanac.logos.com/Chai-sik_Chung〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chai-Sik Chung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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