Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea 9780824853273
Why and how did Korean religious groups respond to growing rural poverty, social dislocation, and the corrosion of cultu
167 11 3MB
English Pages 320 Year 2014
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Religion, Revolt, and Reimagining a Modern Korea, 1860– 1937
Chapter 1. Origins of Protestantism and Tonghak in Late Chosŏn Korea
Chapter 2. Economic and Social Change under Japanese Colonialism
Chapter 3. A Heavenly Kingdom on Earth: Th e Rise of Religious Social Ideology
Part II: Building a Heaven on Earth, 1925– 1937
Chapter 4. The Path to the Sacred: Korea as an Agrarian Paradise
Chapter 5. Spiritualizing the National Body: Sacred Labor, Community, and the Danish Cooperative System
Chapter 6. Constructing National Consciousness: Educating and Disciplining Peasants’ Minds
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
![War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth: Theories of the Apocalyptic (Millennialism and Society) [1 ed.]
1904768881, 9781904768883](https://dokumen.pub/img/200x200/war-in-heaven-heaven-on-earth-theories-of-the-apocalyptic-millennialism-and-society-1nbsped-1904768881-9781904768883.jpg)
