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Death, mourning, and the afterlife in Korea : from ancient to contemporary times / edited by Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid.

Contributor(s): Horlyck, Charlotte [editor.] | Pettid, Michael J [editor.]
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Korean Series: Hawai¿¿i studies on Korea: Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780824839680; 0824839684Subject(s): Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Korea -- History | Mourning customs -- Korea -- HistoryDDC classification: 393/.9 LOC classification: GT3286.K6 | D43 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Contents:
Considerations on death in the Korean context / Michael J. Pettid and Charlotte Horlyck -- Death and burial in medieval Korea: the Buddhist legacy / Sem Vermeersch -- Making death "modern": reevaluating the patient's body, transforming medical practice, and reforming public health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957-1977 / John P. DiMoia -- Ways of burial in Koryŏ times / Charlotte Horlyck -- Death as a nationalist text: reading the national cemetery of South Korea / Guy Podoler -- Shamanic rites for the dead in Chosŏn Korea / Michael J. Pettid -- The familiar dead: the creation of an intimate afterlife in early Chosŏn Korea / Milan Hejtmanek -- Ghostly encounters: perceptions of death and the afterlife in Koryŏ and early Chosŏn / Michael J. Pettid -- Buddhism and death in Kim Man-jung's A nine cloud dream: from fact to fiction, and nowhere back again / Gregory N. Evon -- Dying for heaven: persecution, martyrdom, and family in the early Korean Catholic Church / Franklin Rausch.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.

Considerations on death in the Korean context / Michael J. Pettid and Charlotte Horlyck -- Death and burial in medieval Korea: the Buddhist legacy / Sem Vermeersch -- Making death "modern": reevaluating the patient's body, transforming medical practice, and reforming public health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957-1977 / John P. DiMoia -- Ways of burial in Koryŏ times / Charlotte Horlyck -- Death as a nationalist text: reading the national cemetery of South Korea / Guy Podoler -- Shamanic rites for the dead in Chosŏn Korea / Michael J. Pettid -- The familiar dead: the creation of an intimate afterlife in early Chosŏn Korea / Milan Hejtmanek -- Ghostly encounters: perceptions of death and the afterlife in Koryŏ and early Chosŏn / Michael J. Pettid -- Buddhism and death in Kim Man-jung's A nine cloud dream: from fact to fiction, and nowhere back again / Gregory N. Evon -- Dying for heaven: persecution, martyrdom, and family in the early Korean Catholic Church / Franklin Rausch.

Text in English and Korean.

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