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Academic Programs

Faculty: Dr. Nami Kim

 

Associate Professor
of Religion

Address:
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
436 Cosby
350 Spelman Lane
Campus Box 37
Atlanta, GA 30314

Phone: 404-270-5525
Fax: 404-270-5523

E-mail:
nkim@spelman.edu

Courses:  

REL 112 Women and Religion
REL 285 Women, Religion, and Violence in Global Perspective
REL 270 Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions
REL 278 Women in Eastern Religious Traditions

Degree:

Th.D. Harvard University
M.Div. Emory University
M.A. Ewha Women’s University
B.A. Ewha Women’s University

Current Research:

Her current research interests include “megachurch phenomenon on college campus” and a critical global feminist theology as a resisting voice to the transnational alliance of the Religious Right.

Recent Awards:

2006
Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College

2006-2007
Wabash Fellowship, Wabash Center for Teaching
and Learning Religious Studies and Theology

2005
Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College

2005
Course Development Mini-Grant, Sisters Center for Wisdom,
Spelman College

Recent Publications:

“The ‘Indigestible’ Asian: The Unifying Term “Asian” in Theological Discourse.” Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women in Theology and Religion (Forthcoming, 2007)

Co-authoring with Rita Nakashima Brock. “Asian American Protestant Women: Roles & Contributions in Religion.” Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. eds. Rosemary R. Ruether and Rosemary Keller. Indiana University Press, 2006.

New Scholar Award: “My/Our Comfort Not at the Expense of Somebody Else’s: Toward a Critical Global Feminist Theology.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , vol. 21, no. 2, November, 2005.

Nationalism-Globalization Roundtable. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2005.

“Women, the Ba-ram Bearers: Asian Feminist Spiritualities.” Concilium (May, 2000): 13-22