Death, mourning, and the afterlife in Korea : from ancient to contemporary times /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Horlyck, Charlotte (Editor), Pettid, Michael J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, [2014]
Series:Hawaiʻi studies on Korea.
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Table of 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.