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Article: Christianity, Shamanism, and Modernization in South Korea.
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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In South Korea there is no modernization without Christianity and no Christianity without shamanism.
There is no "official," nor one dominant, religion in South Korea. Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity, as well as a whole spectrum of new religious movements, coexist peacefully in one of the most religiously pluralistic countries in the world. Nonetheless, there are also more than 160 Protestant denominations and nearly 60,000 churches, as well as 1,100 Catholic churches, which supposedly make South Korea "the most Christianized" non-Western country, excepting the Philippines, in the world.
Since its introduction in 1884, Protestant ...