David W. Kim (PhD: Syd) is a Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University, an Associate Professor of Modern History at Kookmin University, Seoul, a Mission Specialist of ANU Institute for Space and an Honorary Lecturer at the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, UK, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK, the Editor for the Book Series in East Asian Religion and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK), and a Member for UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Korea Government, and Chair of the National Association of Foreign Scholars in Korea (NAFSIK).
Kim’s publications (ten books and 82 peer-reviewed articles) include Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope (2024), Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures (2021), The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition (2021), New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History (2020), Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation and Transmission of a New Religion (2020), Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History (2018), Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society (2017), Religious Transformation in Modern Asia (2015) and Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean (2012).