Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites

Author : Chang-Won Park
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441179178
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites written by Chang-Won Park and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites examines the cultural encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular reference to death rites in Korea. As its overarching interpretive framework, this book employs the idea of the 'total social phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950). From the perspective of the total social phenomenon, this book utilizes a combination of theological, historical, sociological and anthropological approaches, and explores Korean death rites by classifying them into three categories: ritual before death (Bible copying), ritual at death (funerary rites),and ritual after death (ancestral ritual). It focuses on Christian practices as they epitomize the complex interplay of Confucianism and Christianity. By drawing on a total social phenomenon approach to the empirical case of Korean death rites, Chang-Won Park contributes to the advancement of theory and method in religious studies.

Author : Dr. Chang-Won Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites written by Dr. Chang-Won Park and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Horlyck
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824840151
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea written by Charlotte Horlyck and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the influence of the dead over the living is sometimes much greater than before death. This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors from Korea and the West incorporate the approaches of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a number of topics organized around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife. The first two chapters explore the ways in which bodies of the dying and the dead were dealt with from the Greater Silla Kingdom (668–935) to the mid-twentieth century. Grave construction and goods, cemeteries, and memorial monuments in the Koryŏ (918–1392) and the twentieth century are then discussed, followed by a consideration of ancestral rites and worship, which have formed an inseparable part of Korean mortuary customs since premodern times. Chapters address the need to appease the dead both in shamanic and Confucians contexts. The final section of the book examines the treatment of the dead and how the state of death has been perceived. Ghost stories provide important insight into how death was interpreted by common people in the Koryŏ and Chosŏn (1392–1910) while nonconformist narratives of death such as the seventeenth-century romantic novel Kuunmong point to a clear conflict between Buddhist thought and practice and official Neo-Confucian doctrine. Keeping with unendorsed views on death, the final chapter explores how death and the afterlife were understood by early Korean Catholics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea fills a significant gap in studies on Korean society and culture as well as on East Asian mortuary practices. By approaching its topic from a variety of disciplines and extending its historical reach to cover both premodern and modern Korea, it is an important resource for scholars and students in a variety of fields.

Author : Chun-sik Ch?oe
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
ISBN 13 : 9788973006281
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk-religion written by Chun-sik Ch?oe and published by Ewha Womans University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chanho Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733475655
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Return written by Chanho Park and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return is a photojournalistic approach to understanding Korea's culture and spirituality about death. In this beautiful art book, there are over 70 black and white photographs and thoughtful essays and prose written by the photographer and author Chanho Park.

Author : Jung Young Lee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027933782
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Korean Shamanistic Rituals written by Jung Young Lee and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Author : Jung Young Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestor Worship and Christianity in Korea written by Jung Young Lee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written entirely by Korean Christians, this study analyzes the tension between ancestor worship and Christianity from several perspectives: traditional folk religion, Korean Christianity, Confucianism, and Japanese religion during the Korean occupation of Japan.

Author : Chai-shin Yu
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0875731066
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book Neo-Confucianism in Korea written by Chai-shin Yu and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese and Japanese Neo-Confucius scholars have traditionally claimed that Korean Neo-Confucianism was an imitation of Chinese Neo-Confucianism, a belief which was generally accepted by Western scholars. Now, this book edited from the theses of representative Korean Neo-Confucius scholars, shows that the three Korean scholars, T'aegye, Yulgok and Dasan in the Chosŏn Dynasty, developed Neo-Confucianism as a national political and religious philosophy which became specialized in a uniquely Korean way.

Author : Michael C. Kalton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408188
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book The Four-Seven Debate written by Michael C. Kalton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-02-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an annotated translation, with introduction and commentary, of the correspondence between Yi Hwang (T'oegye, 1500-1570) and Ki Taesung (Kobong, 1527-1572) and between Yi I (Yulgok, 1536-1584) and Song Hon (Ugye, 1535-1598), known as the Four-Seven Debate, the most famous philosophical controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian thought. The most complex issues and difficult tensions in the great Neo-Confucian synthesis are at the juncture between the metaphysics of the cosmos and the human psyche. The Four-Seven Debate is perhaps the most searching examination of this tension ever carried out.

Author : Jae-eun Kang
Publisher : Homa & Sekey Books
ISBN 13 : 1931907307
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Scholars written by Jae-eun Kang and published by Homa & Sekey Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the historical development of Korean Confucianism in terms of its social functions. This book examines the types of transfiguration Confucianism underwent and the role it played in each period of Korean history. It spans from the Three Kingdoms period (18 BCE to 660 CE) to the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910).