John Grisafi

John G. Grisafi is a scholar of Korean Studies and Religious Studies, with concentration in Asian Religions and the history and culture of religion and philosophy in Korea. His research area is the critical discursive study and history of religion in modern Korea, including through law and policy, historiography and memory, media, literature, film, other cultural productions, and popular discourses. John is currently working on revising his dissertation, titled “The Shaping of Religion Through Empire in Modern Korea, 1876–1948,” into a book manuscript, and on completing other research projects including one on the spatial narrative history of Shinto shrine sites in Seoul, and one on narratives of religion in North Korean textbooks. His teaching interests include Korean religion and philosophy, Korean history, Korean culture and society, Asian religion and philosophy, religion and media, new and foreign religions in Korea and Asia, comparative and global philosophy and religion, critical religious studies, religion and politics in Asia, critical reading of religion, ideology and religion in North Korea, and reading/researching in Korean with emphasis on ideology and philosophy.