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Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea
Albert L. Park
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Description for Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea
Hardcover. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HRCC93; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Why and how did Korean religious groups respond to growing rural poverty, social dislocation, and the corrosion of culture caused by forces of modernization under strict Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945)? Questions about religion’s relationship and response to capitalism, industrialization, urbanization, and secularization lie at the heart of understanding the intersection between colonialism, religion, and modernity in Korea. Yet, getting answers to these questions has been a challenge because of narrow historical investigations that fail to study religious processes in relation to political, economic, social, and cultural developments. In Building a Heaven on Earth,Albert L. Park studies the progressive drives by ... Read more
Why and how did Korean religious groups respond to growing rural poverty, social dislocation, and the corrosion of culture caused by forces of modernization under strict Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945)? Questions about religion’s relationship and response to capitalism, industrialization, urbanization, and secularization lie at the heart of understanding the intersection between colonialism, religion, and modernity in Korea. Yet, getting answers to these questions has been a challenge because of narrow historical investigations that fail to study religious processes in relation to political, economic, social, and cultural developments. In Building a Heaven on Earth,Albert L. Park studies the progressive drives by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824839659
SKU
V9780824839659
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About Albert L. Park
Albert L. Park is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College, USA.
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