Lukas K. Pokorny
Lukas K. Pokorny (* 1980 ) is an Austrian scholar of religion.
Life
He studied Philosophy (Mag. Phil. 2004; Dr. phil. 2008), Koreanology (Mag. 2006), Religious Studies (Mag. Phil. 2008), History (Mag. Phil. 2009) and Advanced Theological Studies (MA 2014). From 2006 to 2010 he was a research assistant at the Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. He was Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies (2013–2016) and Bruce Lecturer in East Asian Religions (2011–2013) at the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen . He has been teaching religious studies as a professor at the University of Vienna since 2016 .
He conducted field research in China , Korea , Japan and Vietnam . He studied and researched at Yonsei University , Tōkai University , Kyoto University , Peking University and Beijing University of Language and Culture . He has taught at the Georg August University in Göttingen , Stockholm University , Charles University in Prague , Masaryk University in Brno , Palacký University in Olomouc , Comenius University in Bratislava and Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj .
His current research interests include diasporic and new religion in Austria; Ethnocentrism and conceptions of millennia in new religious movements in East Asia; and aging, death and spirituality in Confucianism.
Fonts (selection)
- Ontological parallels in Neoplatonism and Neoconfucianism. Salomon ibn Gabirol and Yi Yulgok . Praesens-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7069-0526-8 (also dissertation, Vienna 2008).
- Writing history. Epistemological reflections . Lit, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50365-7 .
- as editor with Franz Winter : Handbook of East Asian new religious movements . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-90-04-36205-5 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pokorny, Lukas K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pokorny, Lukas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |