Kunihiko Terasawa, associate professor of religion, presented his paper, “Buddhist-Christian Interreligious Social Youth Movements in Pre-war Japan,” on Nov. 5, at the International Conference of Modern Religious Movements in East Asia at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea.

Terasawa, who is on sabbatical from Wartburg this fall, is in Seoul for three months as a visiting scholar researching and creating interreligious cooperation among Korean Buddhists, Christians, university professors and students with those in Japan and the U.S. He intends to publish a book about interreligious/transnational solidarity of religions as resistance to ultranationalist populism in East Asia and the Pacific Rim.