Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Religion, Revolt, and Reimagining a Modern Korea, 1860– 1937
6. Chapter 1. Origins of Protestantism and Tonghak in Late Chosŏn Korea 23
7. Chapter 2. Economic and Social Change under Japanese Colonialism 56
8. Chapter 3. A Heavenly Kingdom on Earth: Th e Rise of Religious Social Ideology 78
9. Part II: Building a Heaven on Earth, 1925– 1937
10. Chapter 4. The Path to the Sacred: Korea as an Agrarian Paradise 117
11. Chapter 5. Spiritualizing the National Body: Sacred Labor, Community, and the Danish Cooperative System 150
12. Chapter 6. Constructing National Consciousness: Educating and Disciplining Peasants’ Minds 191
13. Conclusion 220
14. Notes 229
15. Bibliography 281
16. Index 297