Mark Nathan

PhD

Mark Nathan.

Mark Nathan

PhD

Mark Nathan

PhD

Specialist in

Korean History and Religion in East Asia

Interests

Buddhism in Korean history, law and religion, transnational religious developments, religious propagation in Asia

Education

  • PhD, UCLA
  • MA, University of Chicago
  • BA, Rutgers University

Courses Taught

  • Korean History up to 1864
  • Modern Korean History
  • Buddhism in East Asia
  • Christianity in East Asia

Current Research

I just completed a co-edited volume, Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, due out from Cambridge University Press in 2014. I am currently at work on a book project entitled From the Mountains to the Cities: Buddhist Propagation and Religious Reform in Modern Korean History, as well as an annotated translation of an early twentieth-century Buddhist apologetic treatise.