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Chan Woong Shin

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Educating for Intellectual Virtues: What?, Why?, and How?

Each of the three authors of the books reviewed in this essay seems to have had a moment when he realized that imparting knowledge and skills, however important, is an insufficient goal of education. For Quentin Schultze, it was when one student dumped his notes and textbook (written by Schultze himself!) into a trash can…
Chan Woong Shin
November 13, 2023
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How (Not) to Lose Your Soul While Saving the World: World Vision, Tearfund, and the Precarious Rise of Evangelical Humanitarianism

In the late 1940s, budding American evangelist Bob Pierce visited Amoy, China, to preach the gospel at a girl’s school run by Dutch Reformed missionary Tena Hoelkeboer. Not knowing much about Chinese culture, Pierce told students to go home and tell their parents that they were going to become Christians. One of them actually did…
Chan Woong Shin
July 15, 2022
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The Varieties of Religious Repression: Why Governments Restrict Religion

Reviewed by Chan Woong Shin, Social Sciences, Indiana Wesleyan University Ani Sarkissian’s new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and politics in general and religious freedom and repression in particular. As Sarkissian argues, existing works have mostly focused on either the place of religion in democratic regimes or more severe…
Chan Woong Shin
April 15, 2016