Building a Heaven on Earth : Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea /

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This work examines the progressive drives by religious groups to contest standard conceptions of modernity and forge a heavenly kingdom on the Korean peninsula to relieve people from fierce ruptures in their everyday lives. The results of this study will reconfigure the debates on colonial modernity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Park, Albert L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Agriculteurs > Vie religieuse > Coree > 1910-1945 (Occupation japonaise)
Socialisme et religion > Coree > 1910-1945 (Occupation japonaise)
Religion and sociology.
Peasants > Religious life.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Sociologie religieuse > Coree > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Religion and sociology > Korea > History > 20th century.
Peasants > Religious life > Korea > History > 20th century.
Korea.
Coree > Histoire > 1910-1945 (Occupation japonaise)
Korea > History > Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This work examines the progressive drives by religious groups to contest standard conceptions of modernity and forge a heavenly kingdom on the Korean peninsula to relieve people from fierce ruptures in their everyday lives. The results of this study will reconfigure the debates on colonial modernity, the origins of faith-based socialactivism in Korea, and the role of religion in a modern world.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780824853273

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