Title: Korean women and God : experiencing God in a multi-religious colonial context /
Authors: Choi, Hee An
Publisher: Orbis Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Women and religion Korea (South); Women Korea (South) Religious life.; Women Korea (South) Social conditions.; Patriarchy Korea (South); Women Religious life Korea (South)
Contents: Korean women's experiences of God. The tradition of Shamanism -- The tradition of Buddhism -- The Confucian tradition -- The entry of Christianity -- The social roles of women in Korea. Women: always daughters -- Women as mothers -- Women as wives -- Women and the nation -- The transformation of han: Korean women reinterpret God. God as family -- God as liberator in Korea -- God as friend -- New understandings of God: the power to transform. Pastoral landscapes within Korean churches -- Reconstructing women's understandings of God.