Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea
Publisher's note:
Investigating the late sixteenth through the nineteenth century, this work looks at the shifting boundaries between the Chosŏn state and the adherents of Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and popular religions. Seeking to define the meaning and constitutive elements of the hegemonic group and a particular marginalized community in this Confucian state, the contributors argue that the power of each group and the space it occupied were determined by a dynamic interaction of ideology, governmental policies, and the group’s self-perceptions.
Collectively, the volume counters the static view of the Korean Confucian state, elucidates its relationship to the wider Confucian community and religious groups, and suggests new views of the complex way in which each negotiated and adjusted its ideology and practices in response to the state’s activities.
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction [JaHyun Kim Haboush and Martina Deuchler]
- Private Academies and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea [Yŏng-ho Ch’oe]
- Constructing the Center: The Ritual Controversy and the Search for a New Identity in Seventeenth-Century Korea [JaHyun Kim Haboush]
- Despoilers of the Way—Insulters of the Sages: Controversies over the Classics in Seventeenth-Century Korea [Martina Deuchler]
- Buddhism under Confucian Domination: The Synthetic Vision of Sŏsan Hyujŏng [Robert E. Buswell, Jr.]
- Popular Religion in a Confucianized Society [Boudewijn Wairaven]
- A Different Thread: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Catholicism in a Confucian World [Don Baker]
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index
