Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches
Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites examines the cultural encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular reference to death rites in Korea. As its overarching interpretive framework, this book employs the idea of the 'total social phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950).

From the perspective of the total social phenomenon, this book utilizes a combination of theological, historical, sociological and anthropological approaches, and explores Korean death rites by classifying them into three categories: ritual before death (Bible copying), ritual at death (funerary rites),and ritual after death (ancestral ritual). It focuses on Christian practices as they epitomize the complex interplay of Confucianism and Christianity. By drawing on a total social phenomenon approach to the empirical case of Korean death rites, Chang-Won Park contributes to the advancement of theory and method in religious studies.

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Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches
Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites examines the cultural encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular reference to death rites in Korea. As its overarching interpretive framework, this book employs the idea of the 'total social phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950).

From the perspective of the total social phenomenon, this book utilizes a combination of theological, historical, sociological and anthropological approaches, and explores Korean death rites by classifying them into three categories: ritual before death (Bible copying), ritual at death (funerary rites),and ritual after death (ancestral ritual). It focuses on Christian practices as they epitomize the complex interplay of Confucianism and Christianity. By drawing on a total social phenomenon approach to the empirical case of Korean death rites, Chang-Won Park contributes to the advancement of theory and method in religious studies.

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Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches

Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches

by Chang-Won Park
Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches

Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites: New Interpretive Approaches

by Chang-Won Park

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Cultural Blending in Korean Death Rites examines the cultural encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular reference to death rites in Korea. As its overarching interpretive framework, this book employs the idea of the 'total social phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950).

From the perspective of the total social phenomenon, this book utilizes a combination of theological, historical, sociological and anthropological approaches, and explores Korean death rites by classifying them into three categories: ritual before death (Bible copying), ritual at death (funerary rites),and ritual after death (ancestral ritual). It focuses on Christian practices as they epitomize the complex interplay of Confucianism and Christianity. By drawing on a total social phenomenon approach to the empirical case of Korean death rites, Chang-Won Park contributes to the advancement of theory and method in religious studies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441117496
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/10/2010
Series: Continuum Advances in Religious Studies , #13
Pages: 227
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Chang-Won Park is Research Fellow of both the Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University, UK, and the Institute for the Study of Religion at Sogang University, South Korea.

Table of Contents

List of Plates viii

List of Figures ix

Foreword x

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

1 Interpretive Frameworks 23

2 Bible-Copying (Ritual before Death) 57

3 Funerary Practice (Ritual at Death) 91

4 Ancestral Rites (Ritual after Death) 136

Conclusion 199

Bibliography 203

Index 219

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