Religions of Korea in practice /

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Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Description:xx, 542 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Princeton readings in religions
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6278018
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Other authors / contributors:Buswell, Robert E., Jr., 1953-
ISBN:0691113467 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691113463 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691113475 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691113470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Princeton Readings in Religions v Contents by Theme ix
  • Contents by Chronology xi
  • Preface xiii
  • Major Periods in Korean History xv
  • Note on Transliterations and Conventions xvii
  • Contributors xix
  • Introduction
  • Buddhism
  • Chapter 1. King Mu and the Making and Meanings of Miruksa
  • Chapter 2. Won'gwang and Chajang in the Formation of Early Silla Buddhism
  • Chapter 3. A Miraculous Tale of Buddhist Practice during the Unified Silla
  • Chapter 4. Buddhism as a Cure for the Land
  • Chapter 5. The P'algwanhoe: From Buddhist Penance to Religious Festival
  • Chapter 6. Hell and Other Karmic Consequences: A Buddhist Vernacular Song
  • Chapter 7. A Buddhist Rite of Exorcism
  • Chapter 8. "A Crazy Drunken Monk": Kyongho and Modern Buddhist Meditation Practice
  • Chapter 9. Educating Unborn Children: A Son Master's Teachings on T'aegyo
  • Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
  • Chapter 10. A Party for the Spirits: Ritual Practice in Confucianism
  • Chapter 11. The Great Confucian-Buddhist Debate
  • Chapter 12. Confucianism and the Practice of Geomancy
  • Chapter 13. Voices of Female Confucians in Late Choso ?n Korea
  • Shamanism
  • Chapter 14. Yi Kyubo's "Lay of the Old Shaman"
  • Chapter 15. The Creation of the World and Human Suffering
  • Chapter 16. Sending Away the Smallpox Gods
  • Chapter 17. Village Deities of Cheju Island
  • Chapter 18. Shamans, the Family, and Women
  • Chapter 19. A Shamanic Ritual for Sending On the Dead
  • Christianity
  • Chapter 20. Martyrdom and Social Activism: The Korean Practice of Catholicism
  • Chapter 21. Catholic Rites and Liturgy
  • Chapter 22. Conversion Narratives in Korean Evangelicalism
  • Chapter 23. A New Moral Order: Gender Equality in Korean Christianity
  • Chapter 24. Indigenized Devotional Practices in Korean Evangelicalism
  • Chapter 25. The Grieving Rite: A Protestant Response to Confucian Ancestral Rituals
  • New Religions
  • Chapter 26. The Great Transformation: Religious Practice in Ch'o?ndogyo
  • Chapter 27. The Korean God Is Not the Christian God: Taejonggyo's Challenge to Foreign Religions
  • Chapter 28. The Won Buddhist Practice of the Buddha-Nature
  • Chapter 29. Renewing Heaven and Earth: Spiritual Discipline in Chungsan'gyo
  • Chapter 30. Rites of Passage in the Unification Church
  • Chapter 31. Internal Alchemy in the Dahn World School
  • North Korea
  • Chapter 32. The Sociopolitical Organism: The Religious Dimensions of Juche Philosophy
  • Index