Prof. Dr. Song Chong Lee

Song Chong Lee is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Seoul National University, specializing in the intersection of religion and society with a focus on church-state relations, the evolving definition of religion, and new religious movements. He is the author of Ham Sok Hon’s Ssial Cosmopolitan Vision (Lexington Books, 2020) and has published in leading academic journals, including “Bringing Back the Old Religiosity: Interfaith Cosmopolitan Civil Religion” (Journal of Church and State, 2024) and “The Violence of New Religious Movements and the Entrepreneurial Model: With a Focus on the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Korea” (The Journal of Religion, 2023). He serves on the steering committee of the Korean Religions Unit of the American Academy of Religion, is a board member of the North American Korean Philosophy Association, an editorial board member of Religions, and is currently coediting the Palgrave Series in Contemporary Korean Studies.