Building a heaven on earth : religion, activism, and protest in Japanese-occupied Korea

Author(s)

• Park, Albert L.

Bibliographic Information

Building a heaven on earth : religion, activism, and protest in Japanese-occupied Korea

Albert L. Park

University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2015

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BB18768845
• ISBN:
  • 9780824839659
• LCCN: 2014014763
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Honolulu
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 307 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL2233
  • DC23 : 261.809519/09041
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religion and sociology -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Peasants -- Religious life -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945