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Deliverance and submission : evangelical women and the negotiation of patriarchy in South Korea / Kelly H. Chong.
LIBRA BR1642.K6 C46 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chong, Kelly H., 1964-
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 309.
- Harvard East Asian monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evangelicalism--Korea (South).
- Evangelicalism.
- Religion.
- Korea (South).
- Middle-aged women--Religious life.
- Middle-aged women.
- Religion and sociology--Korea (South).
- Religion and sociology.
- Middle-aged women--Korea (South).
- Women's studies--Korea (South).
- Women's studies.
- Korea (South)--Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Entering the Field: Protestant Evangelicalism in Korea 14
- A Brief History 15
- The Contemporary Picture: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture 24
- Setting and Method 32
- A Note on Ethnography 39
- 2 Women's Conversion and the Contradictions of Contemporary Gender and Family Relations 48
- The Economic "Miracle" and the Quandaries of Compressed Development 53
- The Ideology and Structure of Neo-Confucian Patriarchy 58
- Changes and Contradictions in Family and Gender after World War II 63
- Women's Domestic Dilemmas 74
- 3 Search for Release, Search for Healing: Deliverance through Spiritual Practice 82
- Pathways to Conversion 84
- "Opening-Up" the Self 95
- The Power of Surrender 99
- Love, Forgiveness, and Empowerment 104
- 4 Negotiating Women's Space: Community, Autonomy, and Empowerment 110
- From "Helpmate" to "Kitchen Herd" 112
- Women's Space, Women's Community 117
- In Quest of Recognition: God's Work and Status Rewards 121
- Confidence and Fearlessness: Toward Internal Transformation 126
- Self-Cultivation and Learning 131
- 5 Bargaining with Patriarchy: The Politics of Submission and Gender 135
- Domesticating Willful Women: The Evangelical Ideology of Family and Gender 136
- The Paradox of Submission 148
- 6 Women's Redomestication and the Question of Consent 171
- The Two Sides of Religious Power 171
- Explaining Consent 176
- Women and Evangelicalism in South Korea: Blessing or Burden? 189
- The Politics of Resistance and Consent 194
- Of Women, Gender, Modernity, and the Future of Korean Evangelicalism 196.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674031074
- 0674031075
- OCLC:
- 225874247
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