Protestantism, ritual change, and the politics of everyday life in colonial Korea, 1910-1945
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation examines transformations in Korean ritual life to explore how and why religious difference emerged as a political problem under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Protestant missionaries early on banned ancestral rites and other folk customs, while spreading liturgical (marriage and funerary) ceremonies, in an effort to inculcate orthodox doctrines among new believers. Converts' rejection of indigenous Confucian rites, however, became the focal point of heated public debates, as Korean nationalists and Japanese colonial officials grew concerned that Protestant rites posed threats to their own efforts to mold Korean identity. Reformist intellectuals seeking to construct a distinct national culture proposed avowedly modern and culturally authentic rites that transcended creed. Colonial bureaucrats, for their part, strove to foster loyal subjects of the emperor by simultaneously promoting simplified Confucian practices—ancestral veneration in particular—and Shinto observances. These nationalist and colonial efforts, I argue, incrementally yet substantially narrowed the meaning of religious freedom. By reframing rituals as civic concerns, reform initiatives underscored patriotic obligations at the expense of individual conscience, a development that only intensified when the Japanese empire shifted towards war.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Jun, Hajin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Moon, Yumi |
| Degree supervisor | Uchida, Jun |
| Thesis advisor | Moon, Yumi |
| Thesis advisor | Uchida, Jun |
| Thesis advisor | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Gin Lum, Kathryn |
| Thesis advisor | Zur, Dafna |
| Degree committee member | Hanretta, Sean, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Gin Lum, Kathryn |
| Degree committee member | Zur, Dafna |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Hajin Jun. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2019 by Hajin Jun
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