Heonik Kwon, Jun Hwan Park

Spirit Power

Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780823299928
• ISBN-10: 0823299929
• Artikelnr.: 62538344

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 Religion and the Cold War 13
2 The American Spirit 39
3 Voyage to Knoxville, 1982 69
4 Seeking Good Luck 90
5 Original Political Society 112
6 Parallelism 136
Conclusion 157
Acknowledgments 171
Notes 173
Bibliography 201
Index 217