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
Summary
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
