Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites

Author : Chang-Won Park
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441179178
Total Pages : 256 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 256 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 : 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 : Chanho Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733475679
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Return written by Chanho Park and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-10 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book Religious Culture in Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jung Young Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
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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 : Elizabeth Hammer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
ISBN 13 : 9780300093759
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Korea written by Elizabeth Hammer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich artistic heritage of Korea: a blend of native tradition, foreign infusions, and sophisticated technical skill.

Author : Donald N. Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007276
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Culture and Customs of Korea written by Donald N. Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, although strongly influenced by the Chinese, Koreans have maintained a unique civilization with their own language, social organization, food, national costume, political institutions, and customs. The disruptions of the 20th century have included a long and difficult period of foreign rule and a devastating civil war. However, Koreans continue to prize their traditional culture, and the younger generations have embraced Koreanness with a determination to assert Korea's place in the world. Culture and Customs of Korea artfully depicts the past and present in North and South Korea with chapters on the story of the Korean people, thought and religion, arts and literature, performing arts, daily life and folkways, life in a Korean village, life in urban Korean, and gender, marriage, and the lives of Korean women. A chronology and glossary supplement the text.