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Korea has one of the most diverse religious cultures in the world today, with a range and breadth of religious practice virtually unrivaled by any other country. This volume in the Princeton Readings in Religions series is the first anthology in any language, including Korean, to bring together a comprehensive set of original sources covering the whole gamut of religious practice in both premodern and contemporary Korea.
      The book’s thirty-two chapters help redress the dearth of source materials on Korean religions in Western languages. Coverage includes shamanic rituals for the dead and songs to quiet fussy newborns; Buddhist meditative practices and exorcisms; Confucian geomancy and ancestor rites; contemporary Catholic liturgy; Protestant devotional practices; internal alchemy training in new Korean religions; and North Korean Juche (“self-reliance”) ideology, an amalgam of Marxism and Neo-Confucian filial piety focused on worship of the “father,” Kim Il Sung.
      Religions of Korea in Practice provides substantial coverage of contemporary Korean religious practice, especially the various Christian denominations and new indigenous religions. Each chapter includes an extensive translation of original sources on Korean religious practice, accompanied by an introduction that frames the significance of the selections and offers suggestions for further reading. This book will help any reader gain a better appreciation of the rich complexity of Korea’s religious culture. (Source: Princeton University Press)

Citation	Buswell, Robert E., ed. Religions of Korea in Practice. Princeton Readings in Religions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Contents

• Princeton Readings in Religionsv
• Contents by Themeix
• Contents by Chronology xi
• Prefacexiii
• Major Periods in Korean Historyxv
• Note on Transliterations and Conventionsxvii
• Contributorsxix
  
  

• Introduction ⋅ Don Baker1
  
  

Buddhism

• 1. King Mu and the Making and Meanings of Mirǔksa ⋅ Jonathan W. Best35
• 2. Wǒn’gwang and Chajang in the Formation of Early Silla Buddhism
      ⋅ Pankaj N. Mohan51
• 3. A Miraculous Tale of Buddhist Practice during the Unified Silla
      ⋅ Richard D. McBride II65
• 4. Buddhism as a Cure for the Land ⋅ Sem Vermeersch76
• 5. The P’algwanhoe: From Buddhist Penance to Religious Festival
      ⋅ Sem Vermeersch86
• 6. Hell and Other Karmic Consequences: A Buddhist Vernacular Song
      ⋅ Younghee Lee100
• 7. A Buddhist Rite of Exorcism ⋅ Patrick R. Uhlmann112
• 8. "A Crazy Drunken Monk": Kyǒnghǒ and Modern Buddhist Meditation
      Practice ⋅ Jin Y. Park130
• 9. Educating Unborn Children: A Sǒn Master's Teachings on T’aegyo
      ⋅ Chong Go Sǔnim144
  
  

Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism

• 10. A Party for the Spirits: Ritual Practice in Confucianism ⋅ Hongkyung Kim163
• 11. The Great Confucian-Buddhist Debate ⋅ Charles Muller177
• 12. Confucianism and the Practice of Geomancy ⋅ Hong-key Yoon205
• 13. Voices of Female Confucians in Late Chosǔn Korea ⋅ Youngmin Kim 223
  
  

Shamanism

• 14. Yi Kyubo’s "Lay of the Old Shaman" ⋅ Richard D. McBride II233
• 15. The Creation of the World and Human Suffering ⋅ Boudewijn Walraven244
• 16. Sending Away the Smallpox Gods ⋅ Antonetta Lucia Bruno259
• 17. Village Deities of Cheju Island ⋅ Boudewijn Walraven284
• 18. Shamans, the Family, and Women ⋅ Boudewijn Walraven306
• 19. A Shamanic Ritual for Sending On the Dead ⋅ Antonetta Lucia Bruno325
  
  

Christianity

• 20. Martyrdom and Social Activism: The Korean Practice of Catholicism
      ⋅ Inshil Choe Yoon355
• 21. Catholic Rites and Liturgy ⋅ Franklin Rausch and Don Baker376
• 22. Conversion Narratives in Korean Evangelicalism ⋅ Timothy S. Lee 393
• 23. A New Moral Order: Gender Equality in Korean Christianity

⋅ Hyaeweol Choi409

• 24. Indigenized Devotional Practices in Korean Evangelicalism

⋅ Timothy S. Lee421

• 25. The Grieving Rite: A Protestant Response to Confucian Ancestral

Rituals ⋅ James Huntley Grayson434

New Religions

• 26. The Great Transformation: Religious Practice in Ch’ǒndogyo

⋅ Don Baker449

• 27. The Korean God Is Not the Christian God: Taejonggyo's Challenge

to Foreign Religions ⋅ Don Baker464

• 28. The Wǒn Buddhist Practice of the Buddha-Nature ⋅ Jin Y. Park476
• 29. Renewing Heaven and Earth: Spiritual Discipline in Chǔngsan'gyo

⋅ Don Baker487

• 30. Rites of Passage in the Unification Church ⋅ Don Baker497
• 31. Internal Alchemy in the Dahn World School ⋅ Don Baker508
  
  

North Korea

• 32. The Sociopolitical Organism: The Religious Dimensions of Juche Philosophy ⋅ Eun Hee Shin517
• Index535