Spirit Power
Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century
Published on 2. August 2022
240 pages
978-0-8232-9994-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
8 b/w illustrations
File size
13,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8232-9994-2 (9780823299942)
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08/2022
Fordham University Press
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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
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
