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Religions of Korea in Practice

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ISBN-10: 0691113475

ISBN-13: 9780691113470

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert E. Buswell, Robert E. Buswell

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This volume brings together a set of original sources covering religious practices in both premodern and contemporary Korea. Each chapter includes a translation of original sources on Korean religious practice, accompanied by an introduction that frames the significance of the selections.
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Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.18" wide x 12.64" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Princeton Readings in Religions
Contents by Theme
Contents by Chronology
Preface
Major Periods in Korean History
Note on Transliterations and Conventions
Contributors
Introduction
Buddhism
King Mu and the Making and Meanings of Miruksa
Won'gwang and Chajang in the Formation of Early Silla Buddhism
A Miraculous Tale of Buddhist Practice during the Unified Silla
Buddhism as a Cure for the Land
The P'algwanhoe: From Buddhist Penance to Religious Festival
Hell and Other Karmic Consequences: A Buddhist Vernacular Song
A Buddhist Rite of Exorcism
"A Crazy Drunken Monk": Kyongho and Modern Buddhist Meditation Practice
Educating Unborn Children: A Son Masters Teachings on T'aegyo
Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
A Party for the Spirits: Ritual Practice in Confucianism
The Great Confucian-Buddhist Debate
Confucianism and the Practice of Geomancy
Voices of Female Confucians in Late Choson Korea
Shamanism
Yi Kyubo's "Lay of the Old Shaman"
The Creation of the World and Human Suffering
Sending Away the Smallpox Gods
Village Deities of Cheju Island
Shamans, the Family, and Women
A Shamanic Ritual for Sending On the Dead
Christianity
Martyrdom and Social Activism: The Korean Practice of Catholicism
Catholic Rites and Liturgy
Conversion Narratives in Korean Evangelicalism
A New Moral Order: Gender Equality in Korean Christianity
Indigenized Devotional Practices in Korean Evangelicalism
The Grieving Rite: A Protestant Response to Confucian Ancestral Rituals
New Religions
The Great Transformation: Religious Practice in Ch'ondogyo
The Korean God Is Not the Christian God: Taejonggyo's Challenge to Foreign Religions
The Won Buddhist Practice of the Buddha-Nature
Renewing Heaven and Earth: Spiritual Discipline in Chungsan'gyo
Rites of Passage in the Unification Church
Internal Alchemy in the Dahn World School
North Korea
The Sociopolitical Organism: The Religious Dimensions of Juche Philosophy
Index