book chapter
Religions of old Korea
Fleming H. Revell Company • New York • Published In 1932 • Pages:
By: Clark, Charles Allen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work consists of a series of lectures that were delivered by the author during his second furlough from missionary activity at Princeton Theological Seminary as the Missionary Lectures of 1921. After having been partly re-written and delivered on four other occasions in 1929, they were finally published in 1932 so that a wider public might be reached. According to the author, these studies represent twenty-eight years of following a hobby while pursuing an active missionary life. 'The writer has read practically everything that has ever been written upon the religions of Korea, with the exception of those treasures locked up in Chinese books, and, in the text herewith, he has called attention to things said by other writers. By far the greatest part of his materials, however, are from his own notebooks, and the references are mainly for corroboration, rather than given as original sources. Either before or after seeing those books, the items quoted have all been verified.' The greatest attention is given to Buddhism, and then, ranked in terms of the amount of space devoted to them, the author considers shamanism, Christianity, Confucianism, the Chuntokyo cult and miscellaneous cults. This is probably the most complete and extensive work on religion in Korean culture in English and should be consulted by all those whose research interest in Korea includes religion. Three appendices in the book contain translations of TONG CHUN TAI CHUN (the Bible of Chuntokyo), OKJU KYNUG (the Bible of Shamanism), and YUMCHOO KYUNG (the Buddhist Rosary Classic) and will be found in category 539
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- General character of religion
- Theological systems
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korea
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- ER ; MWB ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Charles Allen Clark
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans--Religion