Dr LUKAS POKORNY

Dr LUKAS POKORNY The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Bruce Fellowship Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 272382 pref l.pokorny@abdn.ac.uk pref School of Divinity History and Philosophy King's College, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UB United Kingdom

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Biography

Lukas Pokorny is Bruce Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Deputy Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, and Programme Co-ordinator of the MLitt in Religious Studies. He holds an M.A. (magister and magister philosophiae) in Religious Studies, History, Philosophy, and Korean Studies and a PhD (doctor philosophiae) in Philosophy. His current research focuses on Korean Neo-Confucianism, local religious histories, and millenarian beliefs in new religious movements (East Asia and beyond). He conducted extensive field research in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam as well as study and research stays at Yonsei University, Tokai University, Kyoto University, Peking University, and Beijing Language and Culture University. From 2007 to 2010 he has been research assistant at the chair of East Asian Economy and Society at the University of Vienna where he has also acted as the Vice Director of the Studies Programme of the Department of East Asian Studies from 2008 to 2010. He was appointed as an affiliated researcher at the chair of East Asian Economy and Society in 2011. Mr Pokorny has taught at several universities, including the University of Vienna, Georg-August University in Göttingen, Charles University in Prague, Masaryk University in Brno, Comenius University in Bratislava, and Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

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Supervision

Mr Pokorny particularly welcomes applications for Master's and PhD research linked to his areas of specialisation. These include East Asian religions and new religious movements.

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Teaching Responsibilities

RS1504 Introduction to Religions of the World II

RS2502 Buddhism

RS3513 Understanding New Religious Movements

RS4003 Understanding Confucianism

RS4508 Reading Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist Source Texts

DR501N Essentials of Confucianism (East Asia and the Diaspora)

DR551R Readings in Classical Chinese and Middle Korean: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism

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Latest Publications

Books

Pokorny, Lukas. 2013. The Millenarian Dimension of East Asian New Religious Movements (forthcoming)

—:     2011. Das Schreiben von Geschichte: Epistemologische Reflexionen [The Writing of History: Epistemological Reflections]. Wien et al.: LIT Verlag

—:     2008. Ontologische Parallelen im Neuplatonismus und Neokonfuzianismus: Salomon ibn Gabirol und Yi Yulgok [Ontological Analogies in Neo-Platonism and Neo-Confucianism: Salomon ibn Gabirol and Yi Yulgok]. Wien: Praesens Verlag

Editorship

Pokorny, Lukas and Franz Winter, ed. 2013. Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements, Boston and Leiden: Brill (forthcoming)

—:     and Hans Gerald Hödl, ed. 2013. Studies on Religion in Austria. Volume 2, Vienna: Praesens Verlag (forthcoming)

Pokorny, Lukas, Rüdiger Frank, Ina Hein and Agnes Schick-Chen, ed. 2013. Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Volume 4, Vienna: Praesens Verlag (forthcoming)

—:     and Hans Gerald Hödl, ed. 2012. Studies on Religion in Austria. Volume 1, Vienna: Praesens Verlag (in press)

Pokorny, Lukas, Rüdiger Frank, Ingrid Getreuer-Kargl and Agnes Schick-Chen, ed. 2012. Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Volume 3, Vienna: Praesens Verlag
 
—:     2011. Vienna Graduate Journal of East Asian Studies Volume 2, Vienna: Praesens Verlag
 
—:     2011. Vienna Graduate Journal of East Asian Studies Volume 1, Vienna: Praesens Verlag
 
Schmidhofer, Claudia. 2010. Fakt und Fantasie: Das Japanbild in deutschsprachigen Reiseberichten 1854-1900 [Fact and Fantasy: The Image of Japan in German Travel Accounts 1854-1900]. In: Frank, Rüdiger and Lukas Pokorny, ed. Vienna Studies on East Asia Volume 1, Wien: Praesens Verlag

Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Volumes

Pokorny, Lukas. 2013. The Millenarian Dimension of Won Buddhism. In: Jackson, Andrew, ed. Key Papers on Korea: Papers Celebrating 25 Years of the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London, Boston and Leiden: Global Oriental (forthcoming)

—:     2013. "Reflections on Things Supernatural": An Annotated Translation of the Sasaeng kwisin ch'aek. In: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 163 (forthcoming)

—:    2013. The Millenarian Dimension of Unification Thought. In: Frank, Rüdiger, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares, ed. Korea 2013: Politics, Economy and Society, Boston and Leiden: Brill (in press)

—:     and Simon Steinbeiß. 2013. "Pioneers of the Heavenly Kingdom": The Austrian Unification Movement: 1966-1969. In: Hödl, Hans Gerald and Lukas Pokorny, ed. Studies on Religion in Austria. Volume 2, Vienna: Praesens Verlag (in press)

—:     2013. Das Streben nach Unsterblichkeit: Neokonfuzianische Betrachtungen [The Pursuit of Immortality: Neo-Confucian Considerations]. In: Baier, Karl and Franz Winter, ed. Altern in den Religionen, Wien et al.: LIT Verlag: 103-121

—:     and Franz Winter. 2012. "Creating Utopia": The History of Kofuku no Kagaku in Austria, 1989-2012, with an Introduction to Its General History and Doctrine. In: Hödl, Hans Gerald and Lukas Pokorny, ed. Studies on Religion in Austria. Volume 1, Vienna: Praesens Verlag (in press)

—:     and Simon Steinbeiß. 2012. "To Restore This Nation": The Unification Movement in Austria. Background and Early Years, 1965-1966. In: Hödl, Hans Gerald and Lukas Pokorny, ed. Studies on Religion in Austria. Volume 1, Vienna: Praesens Verlag (in press)

—:     2011. Neue religiöse Bewegungen in Japan heute: ein Überblick [New Religious Movements in Japan Today: a Survey]. In: Hödl, Hans Gerald and Veronika Futterknecht, ed. Religionen nach der Säkularisierung. Festschrift für Johann Figl zum 65. Geburtstag, Wien et al.: LIT Verlag: 177-199

—:     and Wonsuk Chang. 2011. Resolutions to Become a Sage: An Annotated Translation of the Chagyongmun. In: Studia Orientalia Slovaca 10:1/2011: 139-154

—:     2010. Anti-Buddhist Polemics in the Yongbioch’on’ga. In: Studia Orientalia Slovaca 9:1/2010: 59-69

—:     2010. Das sasaeng kwisin ch’aek: Neokonfuzianische Selbstkultivierung als Apotropäum [The sasaeng kwisin ch’aek: Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation as an Apotropaism]. In: Prost, Martine, ed. Mélanges offerts à Marc Orange et Alexandre Guillemoz. Cahiers d’Ètudes Coréennes 8, Paris: Collège de France: 375-386

—:     2010. „Glückselig ist der Weise, weise ist der Glückselige“: zu einer vergleichenden Soteriologie von Neokonfuzianismus und Neuplatonismus [Blissful is the Wise, Wise is the Blissful: on a Comparative Soteriology of Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Platonism]. In: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Philologia LV 3/2010: 139-150

—:     and Rüdiger Frank. 2010. Korean Studies in the German-Speaking Area: Present Realities and a Realistic Future. In: The Academy of Korean Studies, ed. Korean Studies Abroad: Profiles of Countries and Regions, Seongnam: The Academy of Korean Studies: 294-315

—:     2008. Aporie des inaktiven Dynamisierenden bei Yulgok [The Aporia of the Inactively Dynamizing in the Thought of Yulgok]. In: Wiener Beiträge zur Koreaforschung I/2008: 65-76

—:     2008. Chuch'e: Leitprinzip für Nordkoreas Wirtschaft [Chuch'e: Guiding Principle of North Korea's Economy]. In: Politix 25/2008: 13

Reviews

Chongsan. 2012. The Dharma Master Chongsan of Won Buddhism: Analects and Writings. Translated and with an Introduction by Bongkil Chung. Albany: State University of New York Press. In: Religious Studies Review 39,2/2013 (in press)

Fisker-Nielsen, Anne Mette. 2012. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito. London: Routledge. In: Journal of Asian Politics and History 2,2/2013 (in press)

Yao, Yu-Shuang. 2012. Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact. Leiden and Boston: Global Oriental. In: Religious Studies Review 39,2/2013 (in press)

Endres, Kirsten W. 2011. Performing the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam. Copenhagen: NIAS Press. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 126/2013: 128-129

Chang, Wonsuk and Leah Kalmanson, ed. 2010. Confucianism in Context: Classic Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, East Asia and Beyond. Albany: State University of New York Press. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 123/2012: 140-142

Daiber, Karl-Fritz. 2010. Konfuzianische Transformationen. Eine religiöse Tradition in der Moderne Indonesiens, der Philippinen, Vietnams und Südkoreas. Berlin et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (ZRGG) 64,1/2012: 81-82

Fan, Ruiping, ed. 2011. The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China. Dordrecht et al.: Springer. In: Religious Studies Review 38,4/2012: 258

Höhe, Sybille. 2011. Religion, Staat und Politik in Japan. Geschichte und zeitgeschichtliche Bedeutung von Soka Gakkai, Komeito und Neuer Komeito. München: Iudicium Verlag. In: Religious Studies Review 38,4/2012: 258

Keenan, Barry C. 2011. Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. In: Religious Studies Review 38,2/2012: 119

Littlejohn, Ronnie L. 2011. Confucianism: an Introduction. London/New York: I.B. Tauris. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (ZRGG) 64,2/2012: 186-187

Madsen, Richard. 2007. Democracy's Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. Berkeley et al.: University of California Press. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 1/2012: 142-144

O'Neill, Mark. 2010. Tzu Chi: Serving with Compassion. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 124/2012: 222-224

Pye, Michael and Katja Triplett. 2007. Streben nach Glück. Schicksalsdeutung und Lebensgestaltung in japanischen Religionen. Mit Beiträgen von Monika Schrimpf. Berlin et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Religious Studies Review 38,3/2012: 195

Staemmler, Birgit and Ulrich Dehn, ed. 2011. Establishing the Revolutionary: An Introduction to New Religions in Japan. Berlin et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Religious Studies Review 38,2/2012: 121

Winter, Franz. 2012. Hermes und Buddha: Die neureligiöse Bewegung Kofuku no kagaku in Japan. Wien et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Religious Studies Review 38,2/2012: 121

Beirne, Paul. 2009. Su-un and His World of Symbols: The Founder of Korea’s First Indigenous Religion. Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 119/2011: 112-114

Dessì, Ugo. 2007. Ethics and Society in Contemporary Shin Buddhism. Berlin et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 2/2011: 274-275

Fjelstad, Karen and Thi Hien Nguyen. 2011. Spirits without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. In: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 4,2/2011: 349-351

Franke, Edith and Michael Pye, ed. 2006. Religionen Nebeneinander: Modelle religiöser Vielfalt in Ost- und Südostasien. Berlin et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Studia Orientalia Slovaca 10,1/2011: 250-251

Kuo, Cheng-Tian. 2008. Religion and Democracy in Taiwan. Albany: State University of New York Press. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 119/2011: 109-111

Pham, Quynh Phuong. 2009. Hero and Deity: Tran Hung Dao and the Resurgence of Popular Religion in Vietnam. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 121/2011: 106-107

Prohl, Inken. 2006. Religiöse Innovationen: Die Shinto-Organisation World Mate in Japan. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 1/2011: 137-138

Rhee, Hong Beom. 2007. Asian Millenarianism: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Taiping and Tonghak Rebellions in a Global Context. Youngstown: Cambria Press. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 1/2011: 138-140

Chung, Kiyul. 2007. The Donghak Concept of God/Heaven. Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang. In: Wiener Beiträge zur Koreaforschung II/2010: 213-215

Clart, Philip. 2009. Die Religionen Chinas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 2/2010: 259-260

Kim, Hae-Soon. 2006. Gleichheit, Macht und Gender im Spannungsfeld zwischen schamanischer Kultur und konfuzianischer Gesellschaftslehre in der traditionellen Gesellschaft Koreas. Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang. In: Wiener Beiträge zur Koreaforschung II/2010: 216-219

Koenig, Wiebke and Karl-Fritz Daiber, ed. 2008. Religion und Politik in der Volksrepublik China. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 114-115/2010: 179-181

Lu, Yunfeng. 2008. The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan: Adapting to a Changing Religious Economy. Lanham et al.: Lexington Books. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 117/2010: 107-109

Schulze, Christiane. 2008. “Frieden durch Religion” – ein japanisches Modell. Das interreligiöse Friedensprogramm der Rissho Kosei-kai (1957-1991). Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte, Zielsetzung und Funktion: Weichenstellungen in drei Jahrzehnten (1949-1979). Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang. In: Studia Orientalia Slovaca 9,2/2010: 197-199

Seager, Richard Hughes. 2006. Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism. Berkeley et al.: University of California Press. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 1/2010: 117-119

Staemmler, Birgit. 2009. Chinkon kishin: Mediated Spirit Possession in Japanese New Religions. Münster et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 1/2010: 121-123

Zinser, Hartmut. 2010. Grundfragen der Religionswissenschaft. Paderborn et al.: Ferdinand Schöningh. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 2/2010: 243-244

Dehn, Ulrich. 2006. Religionen in Ostasien und christliche Begegnungen. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Otto Lembeck. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (ZRGG) 61,2/2009: 190-191

Kim, Jong-dae. 2007. Dokkaebi – Koreas Kobolde. Münster et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 1/2009: 100-101

Kim, Nam-Hui. 2006. Die koreanischen neuen Religionen im Kontext der Religionsgeschichte Koreas: dargestellt und analysiert am Beispiel der wichtigsten vier neuen Religionen Chondo-gyo, Chungsan-gyo, Taejong-gyo und Wonbul-gyo. Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 111/2009: 144-145

Kim, Sung-hae and James Heisig, ed. 2008. Encounters: the New Religions of Korea and Christianity. Seoul: The Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch. In: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 112-113/2009: 197-198

Schlottman, Dirk. 2007. Koreanischer Schamanismus im neuen Millennium. Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang. In: Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 2/2009: 278-280

Kim, Shin-Ja. 2006. Das philosophische Denken von Tasan Chong. Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang. In: Wiener Beiträge zur Koreaforschung I/2008: 121-123

Kranewitter, Rudolf. 2005. Dynamik der Religion: Schamanismus, Konfuzianismus, Buddhismus und Christentum in der Geschichte Koreas von der steinzeitlichen Besiedlung des Landes bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Münster et al.: LIT Verlag. In: Wiener Beiträge zur Koreaforschung I/2008: 124-126

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Latest Papers (selected)

2012-12-19 (Vienna/Austria) Die österreichische Vereinigungsbewegung: 1966-1969 [The Austrian Unification Movement: 1966-1969]

2012-12-17 (Vienna/Austria) Ist Gott Koreaner? Koreas Neureligionen im Profil [Is God Korean? A Profile of Korean New Religions]

2012-10-29 (Vienna/Austria) Die Vereinigungsbewegung in Österreich: Hintergrund und frühe Anfänge [The Unification Movement in Austria: Background and Early Beginnings]

2012-08-26 (Stockholm/Sweden) Longevity and Premature Death: A Confucian Rationale

2012-05-16 (Vienna/Austria) "Eins mit dem Himmel": Überlegungen zu einer konfuzianischen Spiritualität ['One with Heaven': Reflections on Confucian Spirituality]

2012-05-15 (Vienna/Austria) Einführung in den Neokonfuzianismus und Neukonfuzianismus [Introduction to Neo-Confucianism and New Confucianism]

2012-05-09 (Aberdeen/United Kingdom) Wang Shouren: A Buddhist in Disguise?

2012-04-11 (Vienna/Austria) Kofuku no Kagaku: Soteriologische Perspektiven [Kofuku no Kagaku: Soteriological Perspectives]

2012-03-29 (Vienna/Austria) "It's the End of the World as We Know It...and I Feel Fine": Endzeitvorstellungen in Neuen Religionen Ostasiens ['It's the End of the World as We Know It...and I Feel Fine': Eschatological Beliefs in East Asian New Religions]

2012-03-28 (Vienna/Austria) Happy Science?

2012-03-27 (Vienna/Austria) "Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied": Kofuku no Kagaku und die Wissenschaft vom Glück ['Everybody is the Architect of his own Fortune': Kofuku no Kagaku and the Science of Happiness]

2012-03-26 (Vienna/Austria) Cao Dai: a Profile

2012-03-18 (Toronto/Canada) Confucian Views on Longevity and Immortality

2012-01-10 (Vienna/Austria) "Die menschliche Natur ist gut! ... Ansichtssache": Frühkonfuzianische Diskurse über das Wesen der menschlichen Natur ['Human Nature is Good! ... a Matter of Opinion': Early Confucian Discourses on the Character of Human Nature]

2011-12-21 (Vienna/Austria) Does Confucianism Matter?

2011-12-19 (Vienna/Austria) Das neukonfuzianische Paradigma [The New Confucian Paradigm]

2011-12-19 (Krems/Austria) Kongzi Revitalised

2011-12-19 (Krems/Austria) Confucianism and Contemporary China

2011-12-02 (Vienna/Austria) "Konfuzianische Gespenstergeschichten": Im Mittelpunkt die Moral ['Confucian Ghost Stories': All about Morality]

2011-09-21 (Budapest/Hungary) Supernatural Evil: a Confucian Rationale and Response

2011-06-16 (Göttingen/Germany) "Geister, Dämonen und Unsterbliche": eine neokonfuzianische Stellungnahme ['Spirits, Demons and Immortals': A Neo-Confucian Response]

2011-04-14 (Vienna/Austria) Ostasien im Blickpunkt: Religiöse Pluralität in China, Japan, Korea und Vietnam [Focal Point East Asia: Religious Plurality in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam]

2011-04-14 (Vienna/Austria) Missionare und Mission in Wien: Die Familienföderation für Weltfrieden und Vereinigung [Mission and Missionaries in Vienna: The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification]

2011-04-03 (Honolulu/United States) Millenarianism and East Asian New Religious Movements: a Lowest Common Denominator?

2011-03-18 (London/UK) Millenarianism and the Pursuit of World Peace

2011-02-25 (Vienna/Austria) Überlegungen zur Natur des Bösen im Konfuzianismus [Reflections on the Nature of Evil in Confucianism]

2011-02-25 (Vienna/Austria) Religion im heutigen Vietnam [Religion in Vietnam Today]

2010-12-09 (Vienna/Austria) Religiöse Erneuerung? Die Revitalisierung des Konfuzianismus [Religious Renewal? The Revitalisation of Confucianism]

2010-11-12 (Budapest/Hungary) Millenarianism and New Religions: The Driving Force behind the Promotion of World Peace?

2010-11-08 (Vienna/Austria) Der Markt der Neuen Religionen: zur religiösen Pluralität im heutigen Japan [The Market of New Religions: On Religious Plurality in Modern Japan]

2010-08-25 (Beijing/China) A 'Confucian Theodicy'? Reflections on Things Supernatural

2010-06-18 (Vienna/Austria) Sinson: das (Trug-)Bild des Unsterblichen im Neokonfuzianismus [Sinson: the Image of the Immortal in Neo-Confucianism]

2010-05-15 (Vienna/Austria) Reflexionen zu "neuer Religiosität" in Asien: Soka Gakkai and SPTKY [Reflections on 'New Religiousness' in Asia: Soka Gakkai and SPTKY]

2010-05-12 (Lausanne/Switzerland) Some Remarks on Korean Religious History

2010-05-11 (Geneva/Switzerland) Millenarianism and East Asian New Religions Today: From Sekai Kyuseikyo to Falun Gong

2010-04-28 (Vienna/Austria) Eva und Luzifer: eine satanische Liebe? Das vereinigungstheologische Verständnis des Sündenfalls [Eva and Lucifer: a Satanic Liaison? The Notion of the Fall in Unification Theology]

2010-04-26 (Vienna/Austria) Neue religiöse Bewegungen in Asien: ein Querschnitt [New Religious Movements in Asia: an Outline]

2010-04-23 (Cluj-Napoca/Romania) 'Resisting Extinction': East Asian New Religious Movements and the Maxim of Change

2010-04-22 (Cluj-Napoca/Romania) 'Reconciliation Between the Living and the Dead': the Main Features of Musok (Korean Shamanism)

2010-03-04 (Innbsruck/Austria) Die politische Dimension neuer religiöser Bewegungen in Ostasien [The Political Dimension of New Religious Movements in East Asia]

2010-03-04 (Innbsruck/Austria) Die politische Natur religiöser Traditionen in Ostasien [The Political Nature of Religious Traditions in East Asia]

2010-02-10 (Kyoto/Japan) 'The World has Come to an End': Chiliastic Beliefs in East Asian New Religious Movements

2010-01-25 (Vienna/Austria) Innovative Religiosität? Neue religiöse Traditionen made in China, Korea & Japan [Innovative Religiousness? New Religious Traditions made in China, Korea & Japan]

2010-01-08 (Vienna/Austria) Das Leitfadeninterview in der qualitativen Religionsforschung [Guided Interviews in the Study of Religions]

2009-12-05 (Bonn/Germany) Neokonfuzianische Selbstkultivierung als Apotropäum [Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation as an Atropaism]

2009-12-02 (Vienna/Austria) Reflexionen zum "Sein" in Daoismus, Konfuzianismus und Buddhismus [Reflections on 'Being' in Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism]

2009-11-25 (Vienna/Austria) Woher rührt das Sein? Ontologische Diskurse in den Religionen Ostasiens [What is the Origin of Being? Ontological Discourses in East Asian Religions]

2009-11-13 (Tokyo/Japan) Soka Gakkai and Japanese Politics

2009-10-06 (Seoul/South Korea) Korean Studies in Germany and Austria: Present and Future or Strategies for Promotion/Survival

2009-08-05 (Moscow/Russia) The Notion of God in Taejong-gyo

2009-07-23 (Cluj-Napoca/Romania) Buddhism, Daoism and Ufology Revisited: The New Religious Movement Falun Gong

2009-07-09 (Vienna/Austria) Zurück zur göttlichen Blutlinie: Die Vereinigungskirche [Back to the Divine Lineage: The Unification Church]

2009-06-20 (Leiden/Netherlands) The Religious Dimension of yulgokhak

2009-05-27 (Geneva/Switzerland) Main Tenets of Neo-Confucian Thought

2009-05-27 (Geneva/Switzerland) 'The Messiah is from Korea': The New Religion T'ongil-gyo

2008-08-23 (Leiden/Netherlands) The Sasaeng kwisin ch'aek: Religious Adherence to Neo-Confucianism as a means of Banishing Evil

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