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Korean Spirituality / Don Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality ; 16Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) : 12 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824832339
  • 9780824863265
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.9519 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2230 .B35 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Korean Spirituality: A Multiplicity of Approaches to Transcending the Human Condition -- 2: Folk Religion and Animism -- 3: China's Three Teachings in Korea -- 4: Korean Christianity -- 5: The New Religions of Korea -- 6: The Spiritual Gaze in Korea -- 7: The Spiritual Practices of Koreans -- Appendix: Spirituality in North Korea -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Korea has one of the most dynamic and diverse religious cultures of any nation on earth. Koreans are highly religious, yet no single religious community enjoys dominance. Buddhists share the Korean religious landscape with both Protestant and Catholic Christians as well as with shamans, Confucians, and practitioners of numerous new religions. As a result, Korea is a fruitful site for the exploration of the various manifestations of spirituality in the modern world. At the same time, however, the complexity of the country's religious topography can overwhelm the novice explorer.Emphasizing the attitudes and aspirations of the Korean people rather than ideology, Don Baker has written an accessible aid to navigating the highways and byways of Korean spirituality. He adopts a broad approach that distinguishes the different roles that folk religion, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and indigenous new religions have played in Korea in the past and continue to play in the present while identifying commonalities behind that diversity to illuminate the distinctive nature of spirituality on the Korean peninsula.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Korean Spirituality: A Multiplicity of Approaches to Transcending the Human Condition -- 2: Folk Religion and Animism -- 3: China's Three Teachings in Korea -- 4: Korean Christianity -- 5: The New Religions of Korea -- 6: The Spiritual Gaze in Korea -- 7: The Spiritual Practices of Koreans -- Appendix: Spirituality in North Korea -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author

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Korea has one of the most dynamic and diverse religious cultures of any nation on earth. Koreans are highly religious, yet no single religious community enjoys dominance. Buddhists share the Korean religious landscape with both Protestant and Catholic Christians as well as with shamans, Confucians, and practitioners of numerous new religions. As a result, Korea is a fruitful site for the exploration of the various manifestations of spirituality in the modern world. At the same time, however, the complexity of the country's religious topography can overwhelm the novice explorer.Emphasizing the attitudes and aspirations of the Korean people rather than ideology, Don Baker has written an accessible aid to navigating the highways and byways of Korean spirituality. He adopts a broad approach that distinguishes the different roles that folk religion, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and indigenous new religions have played in Korea in the past and continue to play in the present while identifying commonalities behind that diversity to illuminate the distinctive nature of spirituality on the Korean peninsula.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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