Title: Building a heaven on earth : religion, activism, and protest in Japanese-occupied Korea /
Authors: Park, Albert L.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agriculteurs Vie religieuse Corée; Socialisme et religion Corée; Religion and sociology Korea History; Peasants Religious life Korea History; Peasants Religious life; Religion and sociology; Korea History; Korea
Abstract: "This book studies the religious community's response to these vast material and ideological developments in colonial society through an examination of the origins of faith-based social movements in Japanese-occupied Korea (1910-1945) in institutions that used religion as a vehicle to question the established norms of modernity, pursue social change, and promote the achievement of political, economic, and social justice. ... this study, in particular, focuses on the pursuit by the rural movements of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the Presbyterian Church, and Ch'ŏndogyo to create a heavenly kingdom on earth anchored in religion, agriculture, and a pastoral life."--Introduction, page 3.
Contents: Origins of Protestantism and Tonghak in late Chŏson Korea -- Economic and social change under Japanese colonialism -- A heavenly kingdom on earth: the rise of religious social ideology -- The path to the sacred: Korea as an agrarian paradise -- Spiritualizing the national body: sacred labor, community, and the Danish cooperative system -- Constructing national consciousness: educating and disciplining peasants' minds.