Yeonwoo Joh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. She holds a B.A. in Aesthetics and Religious Studies (summa cum laude) from Seoul National University and a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School. She has long been fascinated by the conceptualization of religion as a discursive category and hopes to better understand the role it plays in the contemporary East Asian context. Her research interests include religion and modernity, Buddhist materiality, and lay religiosity in East Asian Buddhism, and her current work explores the consumption of Buddhism as a cultural product in the contemporary South Korean religious landscape.
