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Luce Colloquium: Christianity and the Religious Revolution in Modern Korean History
Don Baker, Director of Centre for Korean Research at University of British Columbia
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
243 Royce
Histories of modern Korea invariably focus on the dramatic political and economic transformation Korea underwent over the course of the 20th century. No one can deny that Korea¡¯s change from monarchy to democracy and from agrarian poverty to industrial wealth is worthy of our attention. However, the modern transformation of Korea¡¯s religious culture should not be slighted. Since the end of the nineteenth century, Korea has changed from a country in which the government exercised ritual hegemony to a country that enjoys religious freedom, and from a country whose religions focused on ethics and practice to one in which much religious discourse is now theologically grounded. In this talk, Professor Baker I will trace the trajectory of this revolutionary change in Korean religiosity and explain how Christianity stimulated and shaped it.Cost: Free
For more information please contact
Sejung Kim
Tel: 310-825-3284
koreanstudies@international.ucla.edu
www.internationa.ucla.edu/korea
Sponsor(s): Center for Korean Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, The Henry Luce Foundation
