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Jae-ryong Song is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Dean of Graduate School, Kyung Hee University. He has formerly served as Head of the Department of Sociology and vice-Rector of Global Academy for Future Civilizations at KHU. Prof. Song has been president of Korean Association for Sociology of Religion since 2014. He received his Msc. and Ph.D. from University of Bristol, UK. His research interests lie with a communitarian view in: culture, religion, Ethics and knowledge. He is the author of Communitarianism in the Postmodern Culture(2001). His recent papers include, “Religion and Social Development: with Reference to Roland Inglehart’s Ne-secularization Theory(2013)”, “Possibility of ‘Sociology of Spirituality’: Perspectives and Issues(2013)”, ”Peter Winch’s Theory of ‘Rule-following’ and Its Sociological Implications(2012)”, “Violence of the Culture of Distinctive Ostentation: Centred on Bourdieu’s Sociological Theory(2012)”, “Evolution of Alternative Communities in the Postmodern Age”(2010), “U. Beck’s Cosmopolitan Vision and Its Limits: A Communitarian View(2010)”.