Deliverance and submission : evangelical women and the negotiation of patriarchy in South Korea /

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"South Korea is home to one of the most vibrant evangelical Protestant communities in the world. This book investigates the meanings of - and the reasons behind - an intriguing aspect of contemporary South Korean evangelicalism: the intense involvement of middle-class women. Drawing upon extens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chong, Kelly H., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 309.
Temas:
Evangelicalism > Korea (South)
Middle-aged women > Religious life.
Religion and sociology > Korea (South)
Middle-aged women > Korea (South)
Women's studies > Korea (South)
Évangélisme > Corée du Sud.
Femmes d'âge moyen > Vie religieuse.
Sociologie religieuse > Corée du Sud.
Femmes d'âge moyen > Corée du Sud.
Études sur les femmes > Corée du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Evangelicalism.
Middle-aged women.
Religion.
Religion and sociology.
Women's studies.
Protestantismus
Soziokultureller Wandel
Frau
Kvinnor och kristendom > Sydkorea.
Jämställdhet > religiösa aspekter > kristendom > Sydkorea.
Kvinnoforskning > Sydkorea.
Korea (South) > Religion.
Corée du Sud > Religion.
Korea (South)
Südkorea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Entering the Field: Protestant Evangelicalism in Korea 14
  • A Brief History 15
  • The Contemporary Picture: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture 24
  • Setting and Method 32
  • A Note on Ethnography 39
  • 2 Women's Conversion and the Contradictions of Contemporary Gender and Family Relations 48
  • The Economic "Miracle" and the Quandaries of Compressed Development 53
  • The Ideology and Structure of Neo-Confucian Patriarchy 58
  • Changes and Contradictions in Family and Gender after World War II 63
  • Women's Domestic Dilemmas 74
  • 3 Search for Release, Search for Healing: Deliverance through Spiritual Practice 82
  • Pathways to Conversion 84
  • "Opening-Up" the Self 95
  • The Power of Surrender 99
  • Love, Forgiveness, and Empowerment 104
  • 4 Negotiating Women's Space: Community, Autonomy, and Empowerment 110
  • From "Helpmate" to "Kitchen Herd" 112
  • Women's Space, Women's Community 117
  • In Quest of Recognition: God's Work and Status Rewards 121
  • Confidence and Fearlessness: Toward Internal Transformation 126
  • Self-Cultivation and Learning 131
  • 5 Bargaining with Patriarchy: The Politics of Submission and Gender 135
  • Domesticating Willful Women: The Evangelical Ideology of Family and Gender 136
  • The Paradox of Submission 148
  • 6 Women's Redomestication and the Question of Consent 171
  • The Two Sides of Religious Power 171
  • Explaining Consent 176
  • Women and Evangelicalism in South Korea: Blessing or Burden? 189
  • The Politics of Resistance and Consent 194
  • Of Women, Gender, Modernity, and the Future of Korean Evangelicalism 196.

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