‘Healed to imagine’: healing discourse in Korean popular culture and its politics

Healing culture is rapidly growing in the neoliberal late-capitalist context of modern Korea. This study proposes, by defining healing culture as a case of mediated religion, an alternative reading of the culture’s contribution to social change, although not disproving altogether the conventional re...

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Main Author: Park, Jin Kyu (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2016]
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 375-391
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Korea / Folk religion / Folk culture / Healing
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
Further subjects:B Social Change
B post-materialism
B Healing culture
B mediated religion
Online Access: Volltext (doi)