Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century by Kwon, Heonik

Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823299928)

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Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century by Kwon, Heonik

Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

$110.00
Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century by Kwon, Heonik

Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea's shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea's enduring shamanism tradition.

Author: Heonik Kwon, Jun Hwan Park
ISBN-10: 0823299929
ISBN-13: 9780823299928
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By Heonik Kwon
By Heonik Kwon
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Heonik Kwon (Author)
Heonik Kwon is Senior Research Fellow of Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Mega-Asia research group at Seoul National University Asia Center. He is the author of After the Korean War: An Intimate History (2020, winner of James Palais Prize), The Other Cold War (2010), Ghosts of War in Vietnam (2008, George Kahin Prize), and After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (2006, Clifford Geertz Prize).

Jun Hwan Park (Author)
Jun Hwan Park is an expert on Hwanghae shamanism. He has published widely on the symbolism of luck and the morality of money in Korea's shamanic rituals.

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