The Church as a Public Space : Resources, Practices, and Communicative Culture in Korea

Journal Title: International Journal of Korean History - Year 2007, Vol 11, Issue 1

Abstract

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Korean society was unexpectedly thrown into waves of change through a widespread globalizing process. Some view this as marking the ultimate inroad of capitalism into pre-modern agrarian Korea, whereas others argue that it was the beginning of the end of its five hundred years of sovereignty. There are, however, several other features of social change in Korea that beg for some additional analysis. What is perhaps most interesting among them is that the motif of self-assertion was beginning to make its appearance in a variety of ways. Protestant Christianity acted effectively at this historical juncture to challenge a world-view in which nobody was free from the fetters of traditional habits, namely doing full justice to the social positions one occupied. It had the potential of being a social and cultural movement to reshape this world-view.

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Yong-Shin Park

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Yong-Shin Park (2007). The Church as a Public Space : Resources, Practices, and Communicative Culture in Korea. International Journal of Korean History, 11(1), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-26326