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2025 - 2026 Society of Scholars
2021 - 2022 Society of Scholars Fellow
Hajin Jun (she/her/hers)
Protestantism and the Politics of Ritual Change in Colonial Korea
During the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945), Korea was a crucible of ritual conflict and transformation. Efforts to reform weddings, funerals, and ancestral veneration—three Confucian rites of passage that long oriented people’s lives—began to sweep the peninsula, especially among fast-growing Protestant communities, Korean nationalist intellectuals, and colonial bureaucrats. My project examines changes in Korean ritual life to explore how and why religious difference emerged as a political problem under Japanese colonial rule.