Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times 9780824840150

Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Names, Terms, and Titles
Chronology
1. Considerations on Death in the Korean Context
Part I. The Body
2. Death and Burial in Medieval Korea: The Buddhist Legacy
3. Making Death “Modern”: Reevaluating the Patient’s Body, Transforming Medical Practice, and Reforming Public Health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957–1977
Part II. Disposal
4. Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times
5. Death as a Nationalist Text: Reading the National Cemetery of South Korea
Part III. Ancestral Worship and Rites
6. Shamanic Rites for the Dead in Chosŏn Korea
7. The Familiar Dead: The Creation of an Intimate Afterlife in Early Chosŏn Korea
Part IV. Afterlife
8. Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Koryŏ and Early Chosŏn
9 Buddhism and Death In Kim Man-Jung’s a Nine Cloud Dream: From Fact to Fiction, and Nowhere Back Again
10. Dying for Heaven: Persecution, Martyrdom, and Family in the Early Korean Catholic Church
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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