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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea
Ancient to Contemporary Times
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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea
Ancient to Contemporary Times
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Yes, you can access Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea by Charlotte Horlyck, Michael J. Pettid, Min Sun Kim in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Korean History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Names, Terms, and Titles
- Chronology
- 1. Considerations on Death in the Korean Context
- Part I. The Body
- 2. Death and Burial in Medieval Korea: The Buddhist Legacy
- 3. Making Death “Modern”: Reevaluating the Patient’s Body, Transforming Medical Practice, and Reforming Public Health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957–1977
- Part II. Disposal
- 4. Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times
- 5. Death as a Nationalist Text: Reading the National Cemetery of South Korea
- Part III. Ancestral Worship and Rites
- 6. Shamanic Rites for the Dead in Chosŏn Korea
- 7. The Familiar Dead: The Creation of an Intimate Afterlife in Early Chosŏn Korea
- Part IV. Afterlife
- 8. Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Koryŏ and Early Chosŏn
- 9 Buddhism and Death In Kim Man-Jung’s a Nine Cloud Dream: From Fact to Fiction, and Nowhere Back Again
- 10. Dying for Heaven: Persecution, Martyrdom, and Family in the Early Korean Catholic Church
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index