Problems in Researching Korean New Religions: A Case Study of Daesoon Jinrihoe
From the birth of Donghak in 1860, some 500 new religions have been established in Korea. More than 100 of them were, or are, part of the “Jeungsanist” family, which recognizes Kang Jeungsan (1871-1909) as the incarnated Supreme God. Korean scholars have tried to identi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2018, Volume: 2, Issue: 5, Pages: 84-107 |
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Jeungsanism
B Korean New Religions B John Jorgensen B Daesoon Jinrihoe B Kang Jeungsan |
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| Summary: | From the birth of Donghak in 1860, some 500 new religions have been established in Korea. More than 100 of them were, or are, part of the “Jeungsanist” family, which recognizes Kang Jeungsan (1871-1909) as the incarnated Supreme God. Korean scholars have tried to identify common features of both Korean new religions and “Jeungsanism.” Kang Don-Ku and others have criticized this approach, claiming that generalizations should be based on a sufficient number of ethnographic studies of single new religions, which are still lacking. Worse still, some studies of Korean new religions are based on hostile accounts published by rival religionists rather than on primary sources. The article discusses problems on studying Korean new religions, and criticizes the article by John Jorgensen on Daesoon Jinrihoe, the largest Jeungsanist religion, published in the 2018 Brill’s Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements, as a somewhat typical example of these problems. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2018.2.5.8 |