Heonik Kwon, Jun Hwan Park

Spirit Power

Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Thinking from Elsewhere
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780823299911
• ISBN-10: 0823299910
• Artikelnr.: 62538752

Autorenporträt

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.

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