Korean Religions Unit and Religion and Popular Culture Unit and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit

Co-sponsorship with the Korean Religions and Religion and Popular Culture Unit:
“Korean Popular Culture and Religion”
Organizers: Minjung Noh (tuf64799@temple.edu); Hyemin Na (hyemin.na@gmail.com)
The session intends to focus on:
Korean Pop Music (K-pop) and religion, including the religiosity of global K-pop culture, transnational receptions of K-pop in diverse religious settings, intersections of gender, race, religion, and K-pop, etc.
Korean cinema and religion, including cinematic representations of Korean religious culture, perspectives on world religions in Korean cinema, role of religion in Korean film production and consumption, etc.
Any other papers that address the relationship between Korean Popular Culture and Religion as broadly construed.