Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PRINCETON READINGS IN RELIGIONS v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. CONTENTS BY THEME ix
5. CONTENTS BY CHRONOLOGY xi
6. PREFACE xiii
7. MAJOR PERIODS IN KOREAN HISTORY xv
8. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATIONS AND CONVENTIONS xvii
9. CONTRIBUTORS xix
10. INTRODUCTION 1
11. Buddhism
12. 1. King Mu and the Making and Meanings of Miruksa 35
13. 2. Won'gwang and Chajang in the Formation of Early Silla Buddhism 51
14. 3. Miraculous Tale of Buddhist Practice during the Unified 65
15. 4. Buddhism as a Cure for the Land 76
16. 5. The P’algwanhoe: From Buddhist Penance to Religious Festival 86
17. 6. Hell and Other Karmic Consequences: A Buddhist Vernacular Song 100
18. 7. A Buddhist Rite of Exorcism 112
19. 8. “A Crazy Drunken Monk”: Kyongho and Modern Buddhist Meditation Practice 130
20. 9. Educating Unborn Children: A Son Master’s Teachings on T’aegyo 144
21. Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
22. 10. A Party for the Spirits: Ritual Practice in Confucianism 163
23. 11. The Great Confucian-Buddhist Debate 177
24. 12. Confucianism and the Practice of Geomancy 205
25. 13. Voices of Female Confucians in Late Choson Korea 223
26. Shamanism
27. 14. Yi Kyubo’s “Lay of the Old Shaman” 233
28. 15. The Creation of the World and Human Suffering 244
29. 16. Sending Away the Smallpox Gods 259
30. 17. Village Deities of Cheju Island 284
31. 18. Shamans, the Family, and Women 306
32. 19. A Shamanic Ritual for Sending On the Dead 325
33. Christianity
34. 20. Martyrdom and Social Activism: The Korean Practice of Catholicism 355
35. 21. Catholic Rites and Liturgy 376
36. 22. Conversion Narratives in Korean Evangelicalism 393
37. 23. A New Moral Order: Gender Equality in Korean Christianity 409
38. 24. Indigenized Devotional Practices in Korean Evangelicalism 421
39. 25. The Grieving Rite: A Protestant Response to Confucian Ancestral Rituals 434
40. New Religions
41. 26. The Great Transformation: Religious Practice in Ch’ondogyo 449
42. 27. The Korean God Is Not the Christian God: Taejonggyo’s Challenge to Foreign Religions 464
43. 28. The Won Buddhist Practice of the Buddha-Nature 476
44. 29. Renewing Heaven and Earth: Spiritual Discipline in Chungsan’gyo 487
45. 30. Rites of Passage in the Unification Church 497
46. 31. Internal Alchemy in the Dahn World School 508
47. North Korea
48. 32. The Sociopolitical Organism: The Religious Dimensions of Juche Philosophy 517
49. INDEX 535