Girim Jung
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion and Contextual Theologies
Louisville Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact Information
- Phone: (303) 765-3198
- Email: gjung@iliff.edu
Education
- 2019 – Ph.D., Claremont School of Theology (Comparative Theology/Philosophy), M.A., Claremont School of Theology
- 2014 – M.Div., Yale University
- 2011 – B.A., Rutgers University (cum laude, in Philosophy and Religion)
Bio
Dr. Jung specializes in Comparative Religion and Comparative Philosophy with a particular focus on East Asian Buddhism, Black Atlantic traditions, and Decolonial Thought. His Ph.D. research and dissertation focused on the archipelagic thinking to decolonize comparative religious and cultural studies by taking a transoceanic approach linking the Black Atlantic to the Asia Pacific. It also looked at Black and Asian political solidarities and the resonances between Black Atlantic thought and Huayan Buddhist philosophy.
Dr. Jung was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Felician University in New Jersey. At Iliff, he will be teaching courses in the areas of comparative religion and contextual/constructive theologies.
News & Awards
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Han Byung-Chul and Political Theology (Critical Theory 2.0 for Political Theology)
2020 Decolonizing Religious Socialism: What Western Leftists Get Wrong About Buddhism (Religious Socialism)
Decolonizing Comparative Theology (Contending Modernities)
Towards a Radically Inclusive Korean American Church: Narratives of the Dechurched Millennials and Social Justice (Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology)
Resisting Ontologization: An Intercultural Comparison of Glissant, Moten, and Suh (Journal of World Philosophies)
2019 Marxist Thought, Christian Theology, and a Western Lens (Religious Socialism)
2017 Asia as Symbol: Korean American Identity and Subversive Religious Narratives (The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School)
Additional Links
Read the press release on his appointment.