Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Thinking from Elsewhere
ISBN-10
0823299910
ISBN-13
9780823299911
Edition
New
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Imprint
Fordham University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 2nd, 2022
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
376 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historyComparative religionSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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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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