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Minjung Noh

Minjung Noh

Assistant Professor

610.758.6082
min223@lehigh.edu
0031 - Williams Hall
Education:

Ph.D. Religion, Temple University, 2021

M.A. Religious Studies, The Seoul National University, 2014

B.A. Aesthetics and Religious Studies (double major), The Seoul National University, 2012

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Additional Interests

  • Protestant Christianity in Francophone Caribbean
  • Transnational Korean Religions
  • (De)Coloniality
  • Gender Studies
  • Theory and Method of Religion

Biography

Minjung Noh Ph.D. is a religious studies scholar with a transnational and interdisciplinary method, specializing in the confluences of religious cultures between South Korea, Haiti, and the United States. Her work to date spans Korean religions, comparative ethnic and gender studies, and transnational Christianity. She has held previous positions at Drew Theological School (Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Christianity and Gender Studies, 2021-2023), Wartburg College (Visiting Assistant Professor of World Religions, 2019-2020) and Temple University (Instructor of record, 2016-2021). Her research has been published in Journal of Korean Religions, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and Religion, State & Society. Her current book project "Transnational Salvations: Korean Evangelical Missionaries in Haiti" is the first monograph that investigates the multidirectional religious dynamics between South Korea, USA, and Haiti through the angle of the evangelical missionary network built between these three nation-states. 

Book Manuscript in Preparation

Transnational Salvations: Korean Evangelical Missionaries in Haiti

 

Latest Review Essay

"Religion and American Power in Transnational Korea." American Religion 5, no. 2 (2024): 232-242. https://doi.org/10.2979/amr.00013 

 

Selected Journal Articles

2023  “좀비의 여정: 아프리카 디아스포라에서 한국으로 (A Journey of Zombie: From African Diaspora to South Korea),” 종교문화비평 (The Critical Review of Religion and Culture) 43(1). KCI (Korea Citation Index) Accredited, Peer-reviewed Journal, ISSN: 1739-0540. Publication in Korean

2022  With Kin Cheung, “COVID-19 and Limits of Secularism in South Korea: The Devil in Patient 31.” Religion, State & Society 50.3 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2022.2096996

2020 "The Hybrid Aesthetics of Korean Evangelical Christianity.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 55.4 (2020). muse.jhu.edu/article/782075

2020 “Parasite as Parable: Bong Joon-Ho’s Cinematic Capitalism,” CrossCurrents 70.2 (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cros.1243   

2017 “Protestant Newspapers in late Nineteenth-Century Korean Protestant Community: The Korean Christian Advocate and The Christian News,” Journal of Korean Religions 8.2 (2017) DOI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/678332

 

Selected Book Chapters

2024 “Race and Protestant Christianity in Haiti: the nineteenth century colorism and beyond” In Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouizan in Haiti. Edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Lewis A. Clormeus. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 163-197. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/evangelicals-catholics-and-vodouyizan-in-haiti-9781350351721/ 

2021 “Implementing Interreligious Dialogue: A Solution for International Challenges? (Universal Peace Federation / 2005 - 2009)” In Talking Dialogue: Eleven Episodes in the History of the Modern Interreligious Dialogue Movement. Edited by Karsten Lehmann. De Gruyter, pp. 327-352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110529173-012

2021 “Understanding South Korea’s Religious Landscape, Patient 31, and COVID-19 Exceptionalism.” Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic. Edited by David Kenley and Association for Asian Studies. Columbia University Press, pp. 31-40. https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/teaching-about-asia-in-a-time-of-pandemic/ 

2019 With C. Pierce Salguero, “We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods”: Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman” In Buddhism & Medicine: An Anthology Vol 2: Modern and Contemporary Voices. Edited by C. Pierce Salguero, Columbia University Press. pp. 252-263.

 

 

Teaching

Spring 2024 - Religion in Global Contexts

Fall 2024 - Religion, Superstition & Film