1. Considerations on Death in the Korean Context

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Names, Terms, and Titles ix
5. Chronology xi
6. 1. Considerations on Death in the Korean Context 1
7. Part I. The Body
8. 2. Death and Burial in Medieval Korea: The Buddhist Legacy 21
9. 3. Making Death “Modern”: Reevaluating the Patient’s Body, Transforming Medical Practice, and Reforming Public Health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957–1977 57
10. Part II. Disposal
11. 4. Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times 83
12. 5. Death as a Nationalist Text: Reading the National Cemetery of South Korea 112
13. Part III. Ancestral Worship and Rites
14. 6. Shamanic Rites for the Dead in Chosŏn Korea 137
15. 7. The Familiar Dead: The Creation of an Intimate Afterlife in Early Chosŏn Korea 155
16. Part IV. Afterlife
17. 8. Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Koryŏ and Early Chosŏn 171
18. 9 Buddhism and Death In Kim Man-Jung’s a Nine Cloud Dream: From Fact to Fiction, and Nowhere Back Again 190
19. 10. Dying for Heaven: Persecution, Martyrdom, and Family in the Early Korean Catholic Church 213
20. Bibliography 237
21. Contributors 257
22. Index 259