Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea

Informationen zum Autor Don Baker (Author) Don Baker is professor of Korean civilization in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.Franklin Rausch (Author) Franklin Rausch is assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. Klappentext 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. Don Baker provides an invaluable analysis of late-Choson thought, politics, and society to help readers understand the response of Confucians to Catholicism and of Korean Catholics to years of harassment. Zusammenfassung Includes a complete translation of an anti-Catholic essay and an annotated translation of the Silk letter of Hwang Sayong.

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• Authors: Don Baker, Don/ Rausch Baker, Franklin Rausch
• Assisted by: Christopher Bae (Editor), Christopher J Bae (Editor), Christopher J. Bae (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780824866266
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-6626-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Hawaii Studies on Korea; Hawai'i Studies on Korea (Hard; Hawai'i Studies on Korea; Hawai'i Studies on Korea (Hard; Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous