Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea / / Don Baker, Franklin Rausch; ed. by Christopher J. Bae.

• VerfasserIn: Baker, Don,; Rausch, Franklin,
• HerausgeberIn: Bae, Christopher J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Korea’s first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the eighteenth century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on the peninsula. Decades of persecution followed, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Korean Catholics. Don Baker provides an invaluable analysis of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Notes on the Translated Texts and Romanization
• Part I. The Road to Persecution
• Chapter 1. Korea at the End of the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 2. Confucian Criticisms of Catholicism
• Chapter 3. The Birth of the Korean Catholic Church
• Chapter 4. A Decade of Hopes and Fears
• Chapter 5. Nationalism and Evaluations of Hwang Sayŏng and His Silk Letter
• Part II. In Their Own Words
• Chapter 6. A Conversation on Catholicism by Sunam Ahn Chŏngbok
• Chapter 7. The Silk Letter of Hwang Sayŏng
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index