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The Nation (Korea) as the Axis Mundi or Center of the World to Be - A Common Perspective of Korean Shamanistic Practitioners and Religions |
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Kim, Young-ho (著)
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| Source |
Journal of Ritual Studies
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| Volume | v.16 n.2 |
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| Date | 2002 |
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| Pages | 112 - 128 |
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| Publisher | Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern |
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| Publisher Url |
http://www.pitt.edu/~strather/journal.htm
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| Location | Pittsburgh, PA, US [匹茲堡, 賓夕法尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | A peculiar thrust of thinking one can detect in the literature and discourse on the popular religious practices, mostly shamanistic, in contemporary Korean society is found in the conception that Korea is set to emerge as the center of the world in one sense or another. I provide here a number of cases for analysis to bring home their commonality. I see this nation-centrism as a variant of the conceptions of the axis mundi and the center of the world traceable to primitive societies as expounded by Mircea Eliade. It is also reflective of the notion of a chosen people and nationalism. This popular aspiration, somewhat unusually strong and persistent, may be ascribable to a psychological reflex to the dire sufferings of the ordinary people under foreign powers and authoritarian rulers. It is open to other interpretations, leaving one curious as to the epistemological grounds for the claims. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 112
1. Introduction 112
2. Axis mundi in the context of Korean religious tradition 113
3. Contemporary cases 115
Case 1: A shaman 115
Case 2: A geomancer 117
Case 3: A scientist 117
Case 4: A hidden scroll, ascribed to Wonhyo 118
4. Modern religious movements 119
5. Other cases 122
6. Concluding Remarkds 123
Endnotes 126
REFERENCES 127
Biographical Sketch 128 |
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| ISSN | 08901112 (P) |
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| Created date | 2023.10.06 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.06 |
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