Building a Heaven on Earth - Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea

About the author

Albert L. Park is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.

Summary

Studies the progressive drives by religious groups to contest standard conceptions of modernity and forge a heavenly kingdom on the Korean peninsula to relieve people from fierce ruptures in their everyday lives. The results of his study will reconfigure the debates on colonial modernity and the role of religion in a modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Albert L Park, Albert L. Park
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780824887285
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-8728-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Japan, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Korea, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, History - General History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Korea