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Dr. Young Chan Ro’s research interest is in the history of religion, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, Chinese philosophies and religious traditions, and cross-cultural study of religions. Dr. Ro received his BA from Yonsei University (Korea), an MTh from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Ro has written The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok<\/em> (SUNY Press) and co-authored\u00a0The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought <\/em>(SUNY Press). He is working on a new translation of\u00a0Dao\u00a0De Jing<\/em>.<\/p>\n Dr. Ro also published several book chapters in Neo-Confucianism including \u201cEcological Implications of Yi Yulgok’s Cosmology\u201d\u00a0Confucianism<\/em>\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0Ecology<\/em>, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Berthrong (Harvard University Press 1998), and \u201cMorality, Spirituality, and Spontaneity in Korean Neo-Confucianism\u201d\u00a0Confucian Spirituality,\u00a0<\/em>Volume Two, edited by Tu Weiming and Mary Evelyn Tucker (The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2004). He has published many articles in Korean studies, Confucian studies, and comparative religion. He is a recipient of the 2004\u00a0Yulgok Scholarly Award, the most prestigious academic award in Confucian studies in Korea.<\/p>\n Dr. Ro recently completed a book manuscript,\u00a0Thinking of the Way and the Way of Thinking:<\/em>\u00a0A cross-cultural commentary on the Dao De Jing<\/em>. yro@gmu.edu, https:\/\/religious.gmu.edu\/people\/yro.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][vc_single_image image=”4388″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1602404418073{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row default_id=”themesflat_1595124802″ css=”.vc_custom_1595162784886{margin-top: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row default_id=”themesflat_1595022812″ css=”.vc_custom_1595078710423{margin-right: 5px !important;margin-left: 5px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/m3.jpg?id=3130) !important;}”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5\/6″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601789702606{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”] Young-chan Ro (\ub178\uc601\ucc2c) Dr. Young Chan Ro’s research interest is in the history of religion, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, Chinese philosophies and religious traditions, and cross-cultural study of religions. Dr. Ro received his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3636,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3368\/revisions\/4390"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}