Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea
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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea

Ancient to Contemporary Times

Charlotte Horlyck, Michael J. Pettid, Min Sun Kim, Charlotte Horlyck, Michael J. Pettid, Min Sun Kim

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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea

Ancient to Contemporary Times

Charlotte Horlyck, Michael J. Pettid, Min Sun Kim, Charlotte Horlyck, Michael J. Pettid, Min Sun Kim

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Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780824840150
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Korean History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Note on Names, Terms, and Titles
  4. Chronology
  5. 1. Considerations on Death in the Korean Context
  6. Part I. The Body
  7. 2. Death and Burial in Medieval Korea: The Buddhist Legacy
  8. 3. Making Death “Modern”: Reevaluating the Patient’s Body, Transforming Medical Practice, and Reforming Public Health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957–1977
  9. Part II. Disposal
  10. 4. Ways of Burial in KoryƏ Times
  11. 5. Death as a Nationalist Text: Reading the National Cemetery of South Korea
  12. Part III. Ancestral Worship and Rites
  13. 6. Shamanic Rites for the Dead in ChosƏn Korea
  14. 7. The Familiar Dead: The Creation of an Intimate Afterlife in Early ChosƏn Korea
  15. Part IV. Afterlife
  16. 8. Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in KoryƏ and Early ChosƏn
  17. 9 Buddhism and Death In Kim Man-Jung’s a Nine Cloud Dream: From Fact to Fiction, and Nowhere Back Again
  18. 10. Dying for Heaven: Persecution, Martyrdom, and Family in the Early Korean Catholic Church
  19. Bibliography
  20. Contributors
  21. Index