Kim, David W.: - David W. Kim (Ph.D.: Syd) is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, an Honorary Lecturer in the School of History at Australian National University, Canberra, and an Associate Professor of Modern History at Kookmin University in South Korea. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, UK, and the editor of the book series East Asian Religions and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK). Kim's publications include 'Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope' (Rowman and Littlefield 2024), 'Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures' (Palgrave Macmillan 2021), 'The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: the Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition' (Routledge 2021), 'Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation, and Transmission of a New Religion' (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020), 'New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History' (Rowman and Littlefield 2020), 'Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History' (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018), 'Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society: Collision, Alteration, and Transmission' (Lexington 2017), and 'Religious Transformation in Modern Asia: A Transnational Movement' (Brill 2015).