Journal of Korean Religions最新文献

{"title":"Religions in Cold War Korea and Peacemaking: Guest Editors' Introduction","authors":"Heonik Kwon, Seong-nae Kim","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2018.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2018.0000","url":null,"abstract":"The Cold War is commonly understood as a global conflict that was principally about secular ideologies, the confrontation between two mutually exclusive visions of modernity that we refer to as capitalism and socialism. This understanding prevails in the existing academic literature concerning the second half of the twentieth century, and it also affects how we conceptualize the constitution of the contemporary world. The decade following the end of the Cold War witnessed rising ethnic nationalism of a religious nature, especially, but not exclusively, in the former Eastern Bloc. The Bosnian War (1992–1995) in the former Yugoslavia was one of the most shocking and tragic examples in this regard. The ensuing decade saw a series of other military crises—conventional and unconventional—which were often conducted in the name of specific religious doctrines or as countermeasures to these manifestations of religious fundamentalism. This situation provoked prolific debates, both in academia and the broader public, about the nature of modern secular society. Concerned commentators questioned what had happened to the ethics of secularism and whether modern political systems could coexist with forces that denied religious freedom and pluralism, the cardinal principles of modern political life. The whole situation reinforced the impression that religion had reentered politics in today’s world, and the related understanding that our time is in contrast to the Cold War era in which secular, rather than religious, ideologies held sway. Recent studies of Cold War history clearly show, however, that the above impression is misguided. Religious ideas and forces played formative roles in the making (and unmaking) of the bipolarized world of the Cold War era. For instance, Andrew Preston (2012) has explored the role of American Christian groups and movements in shaping US foreign policies during the Vietnam War. Observers of Central Asia and the Middle East are well cognizant of the fact that questions of Islamic fundamentalism, which are debated furiously","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"9 1","pages":"10 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2018.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66448246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Culture-Religion Nexus: (Neo-)Durkheimianism and Mediatized Confucianism in Korean \"Piety Travel\"","authors":"Sam Han","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article aims to ask why there is an oft-made elision between culture and religion. It views Confucianism (and Confucian values) in Korea as an instance of this. Offering a critical re-reading of debates spurred by Durkheimian social science, it analyzes what I call the \"culture-religion\" nexus. In doing so, this article tries to suggest that prior concepts deployed to address this nexus—namely, \"popular religion\" and \"civil religion\"—may need to be rethought to consider the significance of media, and the symbolic structure that it facilitates in the crafting of individualized moral-meaning systems or codes. As a result, I suggest that religion and culture, both, operate within conditions whereby individuals do not passively receive doctrine but rather interpret and construct \"lifestyles.\" I demonstrate how this works through a media analysis of the recent trend of \"piety travel\" in South Korean television programming and its \"mediatization\" of Confucian values.","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"116 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48235540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Religion in the Press: The Construction of Religion in the Korean News Media","authors":"Kyuhoon Cho","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article concerns the configuration of religion in the media sector of modern Korea. With the globalization of the modern world, mass media have increasingly become a differentiated field of communication through which to process various understandings of the religious or the spiritual in any given society. This article focuses on how religion is presented in the news media such as newspapers and broadcasters in contemporary South Korea. Since the 1990s, the media industry in Korean society has rapidly turned into an autonomous profession as the nation-state has made great progress toward democracy and social reformation. In this new social context, a majority of media workers have internalized the standards of liberal or even progressive journalism. Reflecting on the socio-political shift, media professionals have actively produced information and assessments about different religious groups, many of which are concerned with cultural, anti-social, and sensational dimensions of religion. The author studies the underlying trends and logic in the media's articulation of religion, which are selectively intertwined with the secular and religious constellation of Korean society.","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"61 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46575155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Debate on the State of Unarousedness between Oeam and Namdang","authors":"L. Xing, Xi Lin","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0017","url":null,"abstract":"In the late Chosŏn period, Oeam and Namdang, two leading Korean Confucian scholars, were engaged in a heated debate over our unaroused state of mind (Ch. weifa, K. mibal 未發), or the original state of our mind before feelings are stirred. Although both scholars derived their arguments from the original propositions by Zhu Xi, their varying emphases led to a difference in their theoretical stances. This article analyzes the different arguments put forward by Oeam and Namdang concerning the definition of weifa, the relations between sim 心 (mind), sŏng 性 (nature), li 理 (principle), and ki 氣 (psycho-physical matter), and whether our sim is one and unified. Oeam based his theory on the differentiation of weifa into two kinds, namely the ‘‘great root’’ weifa and the ‘‘non-equilibrium’’ weifa—a dichotomy criticized by Namdang, who insisted on a ‘‘one and unified’’ weifa. These different claims reflected the varying positions these two Chosŏn thinkers took on the theoretical spectrum.","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"181 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41411188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of Newspapers in the Early Korean Protestant Community: An Analysis of The Korean Christian Advocate and The Christian News","authors":"Minjung Noh","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article investigates the role of weekly religious newspapers in the late nineteenth-century Korean Protestant community. I initiate the study by exploring the historical backdrop of The Korean Christian Advocate and The Christian News, early Christian newspapers in Korea published by Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries, respectively, from the United States. The article then analyzes the role these newspapers played in defining and developing the identity of the early Protestant community in Korea. I pay attention to the active participation in these newspapers by their readers, namely, examining their readership's contributions to the papers. Finally, I argue that the new medium of newspapers played a pivotal role in initiating a new religious community. The early Korean Protestant Christians envisioned their own religious community and way of life through the mediated publicness provided by newspapers. The newspaper opened up an imaginative space in which members of the community were allowed to imagine the telepresence of a religious community, offering them a new religious habitus and experience.","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"33 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45714116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authenticity, Brand Culture, and Templestay in the Digital Era: The Ambivalence and In-Betweenness of Korean Buddhism","authors":"S. Kim","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Templestay, the cultural experience program accommodating foreign and domestic visitors to Korean Buddhist temples, is one of the most successful and popular heritage tourism products of contemporary South Korea. Noting the interwoven relationship between Korean Buddhism, the state's heritage policies, spiritual tourism, contemporary brand culture, and new digital media, this research explores how the branding practices and narrative of Templestay in digital spaces newly shape the presence of Korean Buddhism in the contemporary social world that is inevitably imagined and constantly (re)mediated. Despite Templestay's efforts to anchor Korean Buddhism in the locations of tradition, spirituality, the sacred, the self, and authenticity in the contexts of late-modernity and globalization, this research finds, the public presence of Korean Buddhism, mediated by digital media and branding practice, constantly oscillates between the secular and the sacred, the global and the local, modernity and tradition, tourism and spirituality, the market and the self, and commodity and authenticity. It is the dilemma of Korean Buddhism that the spontaneous employment of digital media and branding practices for sustaining and fixing its public presence in this highly mediated and networked social world, inevitably generates the ambivalence and in-betweenness of the mediated presence of Korean Buddhism.","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"117 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45146967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America by Rebecca Y. Kim (review)","authors":"Kirsteen Kim","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"103 1","pages":"208 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66448238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dens of Feudalism: North Korean Discourse on Confucian Academies","authors":"V. Glomb, Lee Eun-Jeung","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Confucian academies (sŏwŏn 書院) became in post-liberation North Korea subject of a complex political and intellectual debate motivated by the needs of the new regime to reevaluate the Korean past according to the ideological framework of Marxism-Leninism. Confucian academies were designated as institutions belonging to the past feudal order and as such their traditional functioning was severed and liquidated. On the other hand, they were to a certain degree recognized as cultural relics belonging to the people of the DPRK, and North Korean scholars have devoted considerable effort to describing the role of Confucian academies within traditional Korean society. The present study analyzes North Korean discursive strategies concerning Confucian academies during the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on both popular and academic depictions of these educational, religious, and political institutions.","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"147 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48664626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Korean Confucian Way of Life and Thought: The Chasŏngnok (Record of Self-Reflection) by Yi Hwang (T'oegye) (review)","authors":"Halla Kim","doi":"10.1353/jkr.2017.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jkr.2017.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"205 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jkr.2017.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49650855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A History of Religious Broadcasting in Korea from a Religious Politics Standpoint: Focusing on the Period of a Protestant Broadcasting Monopoly","authors":"Sungmin Lee","doi":"10.1353/JKR.2017.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JKR.2017.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The objective of this paper is to reveal the context of the \"politics of religion\" to better understand the place of religious programming in Korea's broadcasting history through an examination of the history of Protestant broadcasting in South Korea. Historically, religious broadcasters have been influential in Korea, not in the limited sphere of any specific religion, but in their close ties with the forces of social change. Religious broadcasting in South Korea was initiated because of the unique characteristics of the First Republic and its self-image as a \"quasi-Christendom.\" In the context of the need for South Korea's military regimes to manage religions by treating them differentially, religious broadcasting experienced a variety of twists and turns, including its marginalization into \"special broadcasting,\" and its evolution into a social institution for critical journalism. This paper offers a different perspective on the public interest when associated with \"religious broadcasting.\"","PeriodicalId":42017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Religions","volume":"8 1","pages":"11 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/JKR.2017.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48995027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}