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The history of modern Korea reveals a search for cultural identity through nationalism. At the close of the 19th century, the kingdom of Korea became a battleground between China, Japan and Russia. While Korean traditionalists and modernist factions vied for power, the country increasingly fell prey to Japanese colonial designs, culminating in its official incorporation into the Japanese empire in 1910. In the context of this loss of political and cultural autonomy, some Koreans turned to Protestantism, and to the associated ideas of the nation-state as a source and model for a new Korea. Previous studies of nationalism in Korea have tended to cast their analyses in terms of the polemics of Korean nationalists, distinguishing nationalist factions through the lenses of resistance and collaboration. Elucidating the crucial linkage between Protestantism and nationalism, this book instead sets the introduction of new religious ideas firmly within the wider cultural struggle of the time, exploring their function as both a means of counteracting imperialism and as the framework for a new national ideal. The book shows how Korean Protestant nationalists based an idealist model of cultural transformation on their central thesis of the ethico-spiritual origins of nationhood. Drawing on a range of materials in Korean, Sino-Korean, Japanese and English, and on his expertise in the areas of nationalism, socialism and Christian theology, Professor Wells provides the serious reader with an intriguing account of the involvement of Protestants in the burning issues of modern Korea. His thorough and sensitive handling of the complexities of Korea's search for national identity challenges many common assumptions and opens new paths for future studies. This book is intended for students and researchers in Asian studies and sociology of religion. "Professor Ken Wells is currently teaching in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University in the USA.". This book is intended for students and researchers in Asian studies and sociology of religion.

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CONTENTS
Abbreviations = ⅶ
Preface = ⅷ
Introduction = 1
  Nation, state and religion : Concepts in tension = 2
  Protestants and the korean nation = 8
  Incipient collaboration : A question of definition = 14
  The scheme of the study = 16
1 The introduction of Protestantism = 21
  Traditional religious background = 21
  The entry of Protestantism, 1884-1895 = 25
  Growth and social involvement, 1895-1905 = 29
  The Protectorate, Great Revival and alleged anti-nationalism of the church, 1906-1910 = 32
  The church and the Righteous Armies = 42
  The e ´ lite-commoner complexion of early Protestantism = 44
2 The ethical foundations of self-reconstruction nationalism = 47
  The apostle of ethical nationalism = 48
  The young reformer = 48
  Experiments in nationalist theology and critique of Confucianism = 50
  The Independence Club, 1896-1899 = 56
  Civic ethics and capitalism = 61
  Education and the model settlement, 1905-1910 = 64
  Conclusion = 68
3 The Dark Ages, 1910-1919 = 71
  The policy and practice of assimilation = 72
  The Japan Congregational Church = 74
  The Conspiracy case, 1911-1913 = 75
  The education controversy = 78
4 The reconstructive community, 1910-1919 = 82
  The question of means = 82
  The reconstructive community in korea = 84
  The reconstructive community abroad = 89
  Religious visions and imagined communities = 94
5 Cultural reconstruction and the separation of nation and state, 1920-1925 = 98
  The aftermath of the March First Movement = 99
  Reform and resistance in Korea, 1919-1921 1 = 03l
  The defence of culturalism, 1923-1925 = 112
6 National repentance and civilisation, 1925-1937 = 118
  The sociology of repentance = 120
  The move to collective liberalism = 127
  A Christian theory of revolution = 133
7 Economic reconstruction : The ideal on trial = 138
  Economic background = 139
  The Korean Products Promotion Society : Formation and activities = 142
  Self-sufficiency and national survival = 148
  The ideological debate = 152
  The end of the experiment = 160
Conclusion = 162
  Self-reconstruction and nationalist legitimacy = 164
  Individualism, collectivism and politics = 170
  Civilisation and the sources of change = 171
  Faith, nationalism and ethnicity = 174
Notes = 177
Select Bibliography = 206
Index = 214