Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea 9780824837860

A popular teaching that combined elements of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, folk beliefs, and Catholicism, Tonghak (Eas

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Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea
 9780824837860

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Securing the People: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Confucian State
2. Uncertain Times, Uncertain Means: Rural Life, Western Ways, and Ch’oe Cheu
3. Kumi Mountain: Center of the World, 1861–1863
4. The Tonghaks Have Again Arisen, 1864–1894
5. Another Tonghak Revolution, 1904–1907
Conclusion
Translations
Eastern Scripture
Selections from Songs of Yongdam
Selections from Master Haewŏl’s Discussion on the Teachings
Ch’oe Sihyŏng’s Petitions
Account of the Origin of the Way
Notes
Glossary of Names, Terms, and Phrases
Bibliography
Index

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