Water from Dragon's Well : the history of a Korean-Canadian church relationship / David Kim-Cragg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim-Cragg, David, Author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 93.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Church of Canada--Missions--Korea (South).

United Church of Canada.

United Church of Canada--Relations--Korea (South).

United Church of Canada--Social aspects.

Missions, Canadian--Korea (South)--History.

Missions, Canadian.

Christianity--Korea (South).

Christianity.

Christianity and politics--Korea (South)--History--20th century.

Christianity and politics.

Koreans--Religion.

Koreans.

Koreans--Canada--Religion.

Race relations--Religious aspects--United Church of Canada.

Race relations.

Interfaith relations.

Missions.

Social aspects.

Korea (South).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A Canadian-built mission house in the heart of Seoul became the heart of the emerging South Korean democratization movement, while a Korean minister rose to serve as the spiritual leader of Canada's largest Protestant denomination. The century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship has had a lasting influence on Korean society and on the culture and mission of the United Church of Canada, helping to crack the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism. Water from Dragon's Well explores the connection between the Korean Christian community and the Canadian church and its missionaries from the 1890s to the present. Upon the arrival of Canadian missionaries, Korean Christian churches were already voicing nationalist aspirations; by the mid-twentieth century, they were demanding independence from Canadian missionary oversight and were participating in a wider democratic movement within South Korea. David Kim-Cragg traces indigenous churches' resistance to decades of missionary paternalism and the ways they channelled their religious and political energies. Accepting the criticism of its hosts, the United Church of Canada helped build an independent Korean Christian church and, in 1974, ended its Korean mission. This shift in the Canadian missionaries' colonial attitudes also contributed to the transformation of the United Church of Canada back home. With the help of Korean leadership in Canada, the church reconstructed its vision of non-Western Christianity and, in a watershed moment, established an ethnic ministry council. Situated within ongoing conversations about the legacies of colonization and racism, Water from Dragon's Well shows how wellsprings of religion and politics from Korea challenged and transformed white Canadian attitudes and institutions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE NATIONALIST MISSIONS AND MIGRATING CHRISTIANS: THE BEGINNING OF A KOREAN-CANADIAN CHURCH RELATIONSHIP 1898 to 1959

1. A Land in between "Our Ancestors" and "Our North-West": The Beginning of a Korean-Canadian Church Relationship in Kando, Manchuria 1898 to 1942

2. "The Struggle to Express Their Own Identity": The Advent of the prok and the Emerging Identity of the Canadian Mission 1907 to 1957

pt. TWO DEMOCRATIZATION AND DECOLONIZATION: HOW THE KOREAN CHURCH CHANGED THE UCC KOREA MISSION AND TRANSFORMED THE LIVES OF CANADIAN MISSIONARIES, 1960 to 1979

3. Sinners, Partners, or Friends: Discursive Tensions on the Korean Mission Field in the 1950s and 1960s

4. "Taking Hold of Its Own Domain": The Ending of the ucc Mission Enterprise in Korea 1970 to 1974

5. Minjung in the Mission House: A New Articulation of Mission from within the Shell of the Canadian Mission, 1970s and 1980s

6. "A Tremendous Source of Strength and Witness": The Gendered Third Space and the South Korean Democratization Movement, 1976

pt. THREE MISSION FROM THE EAST: KOREAN CHRISTIANS ENGAGE CANADIAN SOCIETY AND THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA 1965 to 1998

7. Seonguja: Pioneering Korean Christians in the United Church of Canada Wilderness 1965 to 1988

8. "Struggling to Understand Ourselves as `Receivers' as Well as `Givers'": The United Church of Canada Responds to Korean Christians 1976 to 1998.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kim-Cragg, David. Water from Dragon's Well.

ISBN:

9780228010845

0228010845

9780228010852

0228010853

OCLC:

1280275124