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Article: Korean Religious Culture and its Affinity to Christianity: The Rise of Protestant Christianity in South Korea.
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Andrew E. Kim [*]
This study offers an analysis of the affinity between Korean traditional religious culture and Protestant Christianity in order to bring into sharper relief several important points of contact that strengthened the appeal of the imported faith in South Korea. In particular, Korean Shamanism, the enduring core of Korean religious and cultural thought, is given special attention in order to explain the prominence of its worldview and practices in the uniquely Korean form of Protestantism. The paper also examines the way in which specific Protestant doctrines and practices were modified or accentuated to suit the disposition of the Korean people. ...
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