Korean Religious Texts in Iconic and Performative Rituals

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Yohan Yoo, Yoo

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This book examines the ways in which scriptures are accepted and appropriated by religious people in Korea. It explores how sacred texts in various religions, including Protestantism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shamanism, attain their sacred status and power.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-31
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt263 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieComparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
Antal sidor152
FörlagEquinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781800504967

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Yohan Yoo is a Professor of Comparative Religion at Seoul National University. His previous publications include three books in Korean: Myths of Our Era (2012), Understanding Religious Studies (2020), and Understanding Religious Symbolism (2021). He has also co-authored Cosmologies of Pure Realms and the Rhetoric of Pollution (Routledge, 2021) and co-edited Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings (Equinox, 2021) with James W. Watts.

1.Introduction: Explaining Sacred Texts and Religion by Using KoreanExamples 2.Possession and Repetition: How Korean Lay Buddhists AppropriateScriptures 3.Performative Scripture Reading Rituals in Early Korean Protestantism 4.Sensory Readings of Scriptures by Neo-Confucian Scholars 5.Performing Scriptures: Ritualizing Sacred Texts in Korean ShamanicRecitation 6.Powerful Tiny Scriptures: Miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism 7.Scriptures for Recitation in Donghak (Eastern Learning)