Jung Mo Sung was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1957, and has been living in Brazil since 1966. He is professor of religious studies at the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at the Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Desire, Market and Religion(SCM Press, 2007); The Subject, Capitalism and Religion: Horizons of Hope in Complex Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; and Beyond the Spirit of Empire (SCM Press, 2009), co-authored with Néstor Míguez and Joerg Rieger.