Korea: A Religious History

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 288 من الصفحات
This is an historical survey of all the religious traditions of Korea in relation to the socio-cultural trends of seven different periods of Korean history. The book includes a discussion of the history of the study of religion in Korea, a chronological description of Korean folk religion including shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Islam, and Korean New Religions, and some final observations about the unique characteristics of religious beliefs and practices in Korea.
 

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Introduction
1
The Advent of Chinese Civilization
22
Two Powers in Northeast Asia
53
The Koryo Dynasty
79
The Late Koryo Period 12001392
93
The Golden Age
112
A Tradition Displaced
120
Dynastic Collapse and National Rebirth
149
The Residue of a Great Tradition
177
Decline Revival and Conflict
184
A New World Religion
195
Korean Syncretic Religions
203
Folk Religion in Modern Society
216
Concluding Remarks
230
A Foundation Myths of the Ancient States
239
B Religious Statistics and Commentary
249

The Advent of Protestantism
155
From Ghetto to Society
171

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Dr James H. Grayson is Reader in Modern Korean Studies in the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. His research interests are in traditional Korean religion, Korean Christianity and Korean oral folklore.

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