Noxious Weed: Persecution in the Development of Korean Christianity
The experience of persecution during the late Joseon and Japanese colonial period was not unusual for Korean Christians, who endured living as a minority faith within a hostile context. Like the pre-Constantinian Christian communities and many Christians today who live in the global South, suspicion...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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[2017]
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International review of mission
Anno: 2017, Volume: 106, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 400-422 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | KAH Età moderna KAJ Età contemporanea KBM Asia KDB Chiesa cattolica KDD Chiesa evangelica RJ Missione SA Diritto ecclesiastico |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Joseon Dynasty
B Religious Identity B Persecution B Ancestor B Conversion |
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| Riepilogo: | The experience of persecution during the late Joseon and Japanese colonial period was not unusual for Korean Christians, who endured living as a minority faith within a hostile context. Like the pre-Constantinian Christian communities and many Christians today who live in the global South, suspicion and persecution defined their world as openly confessing Christians, and they embraced, as part of converting to Christianity, the stark reality that their faith could incur personal harm in the form of hostility, incarceration, and even death. This article explores how conversion and maintaining Christian faith in a society adverse to Christianity shaped believers' self-understanding of the breadth of faith and acceptance of its mortal implications. Focusing on the Catholic and Protestant experience in Korea, Christian believers rigorously tested the country's attitudes against Christianity. In so doing, their experience provokes a critical reflection on the profoundness of the missionary mandate and illuminates the complexity with which their faith is forged as they must confront the brutal reality that they may be, at the very least, arrested. For many Korean Christians during Joseon Dynasty and the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), conversion to Christianity was part of the process that transformed for believers a religious identity that was understood to be potentially detrimental to their relationship with the state. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/irom.12194 |