Religious experience in trauma : Koreans' collective complex of inferiority and the Korean Protestant Church / KwangYu Lee.

9783030535834 (electronic book)
3030535835 (electronic book)
9783030535827
3030535827

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

English

1 online resource.

10.1007/978-3-030-53583-4 doi

BR1329 .L44 2020

280.4095195

This book offers a psychohistorical analysis of the rapid growth of the Korean Protestant Church. KwangYu Lee looks at some of the traumatic historical events of Korea in the 20th century, including the fall of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), the Japanese Occupation (1910-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), and the Korean Military Dictatorship (1961-1987), and explores the psychological impacts of these events on the collective unconsciousness of Koreans. He argues that Koreans collective (or cultural) complex of inferiority, which was caused and gradually exacerbated by these traumatic events, along with their psychological relationships with their two colonizers--the Japanese and Americans--prompted them to convert to Korean Protestantism en masse as a means to avoid their psychological pains and to fulfil their futile desire to become like Americans, their overtly idealized psychological-object.

Access limited to authorized users.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2020).

Asian Christianity in the diaspora.

Print version : 9783030535827

Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources