Deliverance and submission : evangelical women and the negotiation of patriarchy in South Korea / Kelly H. Chong.

Author/creator Chong, Kelly H., 1964-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Evangelicalism--Korea (South).
Middle-aged women--Religious life.
Religion and sociology--Korea (South).
Middle-aged women--Korea (South).
Women's studies--Korea (South).
Korea (South)--Religion.

SeriesHarvard East Asian monographs ; 309
Harvard East Asian monographs 309. ^A21267
Contents 1 Entering the Field: Protestant Evangelicalism in Korea 14 -- A Brief History 15 -- The Contemporary Picture: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture 24 -- Setting and Method 32 -- A Note on Ethnography 39 -- 2 Women's Conversion and the Contradictions of Contemporary Gender and Family Relations 48 -- The Economic "Miracle" and the Quandaries of Compressed Development 53 -- The Ideology and Structure of Neo-Confucian Patriarchy 58 -- Changes and Contradictions in Family and Gender after World War II 63 -- Women's Domestic Dilemmas 74 -- 3 Search for Release, Search for Healing: Deliverance through Spiritual Practice 82 -- Pathways to Conversion 84 -- "Opening-Up" the Self 95 -- The Power of Surrender 99 -- Love, Forgiveness, and Empowerment 104 -- 4 Negotiating Women's Space: Community, Autonomy, and Empowerment 110 -- From "Helpmate" to "Kitchen Herd" 112 -- Women's Space, Women's Community 117 -- In Quest of Recognition: God's Work and Status Rewards 121 -- Confidence and Fearlessness: Toward Internal Transformation 126 -- Self-Cultivation and Learning 131 -- 5 Bargaining with Patriarchy: The Politics of Submission and Gender 135 -- Domesticating Willful Women: The Evangelical Ideology of Family and Gender 136 -- The Paradox of Submission 148 -- 6 Women's Redomestication and the Question of Consent 171 -- The Two Sides of Religious Power 171 -- Explaining Consent 176 -- Women and Evangelicalism in South Korea: Blessing or Burden? 189 -- The Politics of Resistance and Consent 194 -- Of Women, Gender, Modernity, and the Future of Korean Evangelicalism 196.
Review "South Korea is home to one of the most vibrant evangelical Protestant communities in the world. This book investigates the meanings of - and the reasons behind - an intriguing aspect of contemporary South Korean evangelicalism: the intense involvement of middle-class women. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Seoul that explores the relevance of gender and women's experiences to Korean evangelicalism, Kelly H. Chong not only helps provide a clearer picture of the evangelical movement's success in South Korea, but interrogates the global question of contemporary women's attraction to religious traditionalisms."--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Chong, Kelly H., 1964- Deliverance and submission. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008
Issued in other formOnline version: Chong, Kelly H., 1964- Deliverance and submission. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008
LCCN 2008032964
ISBN9780674031074 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN0674031075 (cloth ; alk. paper)

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