Chai-Sik Chung, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Sociologist of religion
Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1930
Place of Birth: Wonju, Gangwon Province, South Korea
Profession: sociologist
Nationality: South Korea
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Chai-Sik Chung
- Chai-Sik Chung (born July 14, 1930 in Wonju, Korea) is an American social ethicist and sociologist of religion.
- He studied under Walter George Muelder at the Boston University School of Theology, where he served as the Walter G.
- Muelder Professor of Social Ethics from 1990 to 2011.
- He also studied under the late Robert N.
- Bellah at Harvard Divinity School with whom he had been long associated.
- As a scholar of comparative religious ethics, he has been a pioneer in the study of social and ethical problems arising from East Asia’s modern transformation.
- He has published widely in both Korean and English, on social and ethical issues involving globalization and encounters between civilizations, particularly those between Korea, East Asian religious traditions and Christianity.
- His publications include A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World; Korea, Religious Tradition, and Globalization; Consciousness and History: Korean Cultural Tradition and Social Change; Korean Religion and Society Under Challenge: Continuity and Change; The Clash between Korean Confucianism and Modern Western Civilization; and his culminating work The Korean Tradition of Religion, Society, and Ethics: A Comparative Historical Interpretation and Looking Beyond. Chung has taught at a number of institutions, including Boston University's College of General Studies and in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
- From 1983 to 1987, he served as Director of the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei.
- In 1986, he served as the Koret Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
- In 2003, he was the Luce Distinguished Professor of Korean Christianity at the University of California, Los Angeles and in the following year he served as the Yongjae George L.
- Paik Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University.
- In 2011, he retired from the Boston University School of Theology, completing a 50-year teaching career.
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