Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea : : Ancient to Contemporary Times / / ed. by Charlotte Horlyck, Min Sun Kim, Michael J. Pettid.
Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the influence of the dead over the living is someti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 21 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Names, Terms, and Titles
- Chronology
- 1. Considerations on Death in the Korean Context
- Part I. The Body
- 2. Death and Burial in Medieval Korea: The Buddhist Legacy
- 3. Making Death "Modern": Reevaluating the Patient's Body, Transforming Medical Practice, and Reforming Public Health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957-1977
- Part II. Disposal
- 4. Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times
- 5. Death as a Nationalist Text: Reading the National Cemetery of South Korea
- Part III. Ancestral Worship and Rites
- 6. Shamanic Rites for the Dead in Chosŏn Korea
- 7. The Familiar Dead: The Creation of an Intimate Afterlife in Early Chosŏn Korea
- Part IV. Afterlife
- 8. Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Koryŏ and Early Chosŏn
- 9 Buddhism and Death In Kim Man-Jung's a Nine Cloud Dream: From Fact to Fiction, and Nowhere Back Again
- 10. Dying for Heaven: Persecution, Martyrdom, and Family in the Early Korean Catholic Church
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index