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329 Contributors Kyusik Chang is professor in the Department of History at Chung-ang University. The focus of his research is the modern intellectual history of Korea. He is the author of Ilcheha Han’guk Kidokkyo minjokchuŭi yŏn’gu [Christian Nationalism in Modern Korea] (Seoul: Hye’an, 2001). Carolyn Chen is associate professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (Princeton University Press, 2008) and coeditor of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Religion and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (NYU Press, 2012). Eun Young Lee Easley is an independent scholar. She received her M.A. in cultural anthropology from Yonsei University in 2007 and was a Freeman Fellow at Williams College in 2005. She is now working in energy market analysis with a continuing interest in the social economics of Korean Christianity. Joseph Tse-Hei Lee is professor of History at Pace University. His research focuses on church-state relations in modern China. Among his publications are The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860–1900 (Routledge, 2003; Chinese edition, 2010) and two coedited works, Marginalization in China: Recasting Minority Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and China’s Rise to Power: Conceptions of State Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Mark R. Mullins is professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand. His teaching and research focus on religion in modern societies. He is the author and coeditor of a number of studies, including Christianity Made in Japan (University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998), Religion and Social Crisis in Japan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and Handbook of Christianity in Japan (Brill, 2003). He is currently engaged in research and writing on neonationalism and contemporary Japanese religions. David Ownby is professor in the Department of History at Université de Montr éal. His most recent book is Falun Gong and the Future of China (Oxford, 2008). 330 contributors Albert L. Park is assistant professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. His teaching and research focus on the modern history of Korea and East Asia, in particular the relationship between economic structures and religious and cultural trends and developments. While finishing his book manuscript Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea, he is also working on his next project, which looks at the intersection between design, social activism, and democracy in South Korea. Yunjae Park is associate professor in the Department of History at Kyung Hee University. He is the author of Han’guk kŭndaeŭhak ŭi kiwŏn [The Origin of the Modern Korean Medical System] (Seoul: Hye’an, 2005). Gregory Vanderbilt is an independent scholar. He earned a Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2005. He is the translator of Mitsuo Miyata’s Authority and Obedience: Romans 13:1–7 in Modern Japan (Peter Lang, 2009). He is completing a history of Christianity in imperial Japan based on the experience of the Omi Brotherhood and is planning projects on the history of people with Hansen’s Disease in Japan and on the American anthropologist John Embree. Garrett L. Washington is visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at The College of Wooster. He was formally a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University . He is a historian of modern Japanese religion specializing in the study of religious spaces, discourse, and activism. His work has appeared in Japanese Studies. David K. Yoo is professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903–1945 (Stanford, 2010). ...

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