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Author | : Chang-Won Park |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2010-04-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441179178 |
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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 | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Death |
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Author | : Gil-Soo Han |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2019-05-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811378525 |
Download Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores 21st century Korean society on the basis of its dramatically transforming and rapidly expanding commercial funeral industry. With insights into contemporary Confucianism, shamanism and filial piety, as well as modernisation, urbanisation, the division of labour and the digitalisation of consumption, it is the first study of its kind to offer a sophisticated, integrated sociological analysis of how the commodification of death intersects with capitalism, popular culture and everyday life in contemporary Korea. Through innovative analyses of funeral advertising and journalism, screen and literary representations of funerals, online media, consumer accounts of using funeral services and other sources, it offers a complex picture of the widespread effects of economic development, urbanisation and modernisation in South Korean society over the past quarter century. In the aftermath of the Korean “economic miracle” novel ways of paying respect to deceased kin have emerged; using Max Weber's concept of “pariah capitalism”, Gil-Soo Han shows how the heightened obsession with and boom in the commodification of death in Korea reflects radical transformations in both capital and culture. Winner of Korean Education Minister’s Book Prize 2020
Author | : Charlotte Horlyck |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824876768 |
Download Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Jung Young Lee |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9789027933782 |
Download Korean Shamanistic Rituals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-01-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781733475679 |
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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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Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Confucianism |
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Author | : Chongho Kim |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Korean Shamanism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why do Koreans use shamanic ritual even though prejudice against shamanism is universal ? Why do so many Koreans employ a pratice that is widely stigmatised and despised as superstition ?
Author | : Elizabeth Hammer |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300093759 |
Download The Arts of Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000-08-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313007276 |
Download Culture and Customs of Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.