Religious Experience and Self-Psychology: Korean Christianity and the 1907 Revival Movement

by Jung Eun Jang

Book Overview

This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohut's self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by identifying the sense of defeatedness and helplessness that Korean people experienced under Japanese occupation as what Kohut calls self-fragmentation of the Korean group self and explaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349957135
• ISBN13: 9781349957132
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"