Religions of Korea in Practice / / Robert E. Buswell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• TeilnehmendeR: Buswell, Robert E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Korea has one of the most diverse religious cultures in the world today, with a range and breadth of religious practice virtually unrivaled by any other country. This volume in the Princeton Readings in Religions series is the first anthology in any language, including Korean, to bring together a comprehensive set of original sources covering the whole gamut of religious practice in both premodern and contemporary Korea. The book's thirty-two chapters help redress the dearth of source materials on Korean religions in Western languages. Coverage includes shamanic rituals for the dead and songs to quiet fussy newborns; Buddhist meditative practices and exorcisms; Confucian geomancy and ancestor rites; contemporary Catholic liturgy; Protestant devotional practices; internal alchemy training in new Korean religions; and North Korean Juche ("self-reliance") ideology, an amalgam of Marxism and Neo-Confucian filial piety focused on worship of the "father," Kim Il Sung. Religions of Korea in Practice provides substantial coverage of contemporary Korean religious practice, especially the various Christian denominations and new indigenous religions. Each chapter includes an extensive translation of original sources on Korean religious practice, accompanied by an introduction that frames the significance of the selections and offers suggestions for further reading. This book will help any reader gain a better appreciation of the rich complexity of Korea's religious culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PRINCETON READINGS IN RELIGIONS -- CONTENTS -- CONTENTS BY THEME -- CONTENTS BY CHRONOLOGY -- PREFACE -- MAJOR PERIODS IN KOREAN HISTORY -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATIONS AND CONVENTIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION / Baker, Don -- Buddhism -- 1. King Mu and the Making and Meanings of Miruksa / Best, Jonathan W. -- 2. Won'gwang and Chajang in the Formation of Early Silla Buddhism / Mohan, Pankaj N. -- 3. Miraculous Tale of Buddhist Practice during the Unified / McBride, Richard D. -- 4. Buddhism as a Cure for the Land / Vermeersch, Sem -- 5. The P'algwanhoe: From Buddhist Penance to Religious Festival / Vermeersch, Sem -- 6. Hell and Other Karmic Consequences: A Buddhist Vernacular Song / Lee, Younghee -- 7. A Buddhist Rite of Exorcism / Uhlmann, Patrick R. -- 8. "A Crazy Drunken Monk": Kyongho and Modern Buddhist Meditation Practice / Park, Jin Y. -- 9. Educating Unborn Children: A Son Master's Teachings on T'aegyo / Sunim, Chong Go -- Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism -- 10. A Party for the Spirits: Ritual Practice in Confucianism / Kim, Hongkyung -- 11. The Great Confucian-Buddhist Debate / Muller, Charles -- 12. Confucianism and the Practice of Geomancy / Yoon, Hong-key -- 13. Voices of Female Confucians in Late Choson Korea / Kim, Youngmin -- Shamanism -- 14. Yi Kyubo's "Lay of the Old Shaman" / McBride, Richard D. -- 15. The Creation of the World and Human Suffering / Walraven, Boudewijn -- 16. Sending Away the Smallpox Gods / Bruno, Antonetta Lucia -- 17. Village Deities of Cheju Island / Walraven, Boudewijn -- 18. Shamans, the Family, and Women / Walraven, Boudewijn -- 19. A Shamanic Ritual for Sending On the Dead / Bruno, Antonetta Lucia -- Christianity -- 20. Martyrdom and Social Activism: The Korean Practice of Catholicism / Yoon, Inshil Choe -- 21. Catholic Rites and Liturgy / Rausch, Franklin / Baker, Don -- 22. Conversion Narratives in Korean Evangelicalism / Lee, Timothy S. -- 23. A New Moral Order: Gender Equality in Korean Christianity / Choi, Hyaeweol -- 24. Indigenized Devotional Practices in Korean Evangelicalism / Lee, Timothy S. -- 25. The Grieving Rite: A Protestant Response to Confucian Ancestral Rituals / Grayson, James Huntley -- New Religions -- 26. The Great Transformation: Religious Practice in Ch'ondogyo / Baker, Don -- 27. The Korean God Is Not the Christian God: Taejonggyo's Challenge to Foreign Religions / Baker, Don -- 28. The Won Buddhist Practice of the Buddha-Nature / Park, Jin Y. -- 29. Renewing Heaven and Earth: Spiritual Discipline in Chungsan'gyo / Baker, Don -- 30. Rites of Passage in the Unification Church / Baker, Don -- 31. Internal Alchemy in the Dahn World School / Baker, Don -- North Korea -- 32. The Sociopolitical Organism: The Religious Dimensions of Juche Philosophy / Shin, Eun Hee -- INDEX