Death, mourning, and the afterlife in Korea : from ancient to contemporary times /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi,
[2014]
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| 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.