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Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea (Hawai‘i Studies on Korea) by Don Baker (editor); Franklin Rausch (editor); Christopher J. Bae (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 late-Chosŏn (1392–1897) thought, politics, and society to help readers understand the response of Confucians to Catholicism and of Korean Catholics to years of violent harassment. His analysis is informed by two remarkable documents expertly translated with the assistance of Franklin Rausch and annotated here for the first time: an anti-Catholic essay written in the 1780s by Confucian scholar Ahn Chŏngbok (1712–1791) and a firsthand account of the 1801 anti-Catholic persecution by one of its last victims, the religious leader Hwang Sayŏng (1775–1801). Confucian assumptions about Catholicism are revealed in Ahn’s essay, __Conversation on Catholicism.__ The work is based on the scholar’s exchanges with his son-in-law, who joined the small group of Catholics in the 1780s. Ahn argues that Catholicism is immoral because it puts more importance on the salvation of one’s soul than on what is be
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- Author
- Don Baker (editor); Franklin Rausch (editor); Christopher J. Bae (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824866273
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Christian, Religion
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