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Clark W. Sorensen - Encounters with Korean Folk Religion, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Encounters with Korean Folk Religion

The Goddesses of Eight Peaks Mountain

Av Clark W. Sorensen

489 kr

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Encounters with Korean Folk Religion is an account of forty-five years of engagement with the cult of goddesses on Eight Peaks Mountain in Korea's western Kangwŏn Province, the shaman who tended to the goddesses there from 1977 to 2015, and the folk religion of the surrounding village of Eight Peaks. Since the 1980s, South Korea has urbanized and the village of Eight Peaks has been transformed from a remote agricultural village into a rafting and ski resort. While communal worship ceremonies have been dying out in most of Korea, they have only grown on Eight Peaks Mountain, which has been a site of worship since at least the 15th century. What was a small-scale local ceremony in 1977 has grown into a large-scale regional celebration attracting shamans and tourists from far and wide. The manuscript delves in a historically and anthropologically innovative way into the social, religious, and historical reasons for this efflorescence.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-09
  • Mått: 156 x 235 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 244
  • Förlag: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN: 9781978849754
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Clark W. Sorensen is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies. He is the author of Over the Mountains are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization and, most recently, coeditor of Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan.

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"Drawing on nearly fifty years of encounters around Eight Peaks Mountain, Sorensen offers a deeply layered ethnography of a religious world that never stands still." - Kyoim Yun, author of The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island"Sorensen's book spans more than 45 years of ethnographic engagement with the folk religions of a village in South Korea, and his observations are uniquely valuable as an analysis of social processes, and as methodological insights." - Liora Sarfati, author of Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital

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