Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

by Heonik Kwon and Jun Hwan Park

Book Overview

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823299910
• ISBN13: 9780823299911
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"