Church and Compressed Modernization: South Korea and Japan Compared
This paper explores the question of how to explain the sharp contrast betweenthe growth of the Catholic Church in Korea and the counterpart in Japan. Despitenot only the religio-cultural similarities between the two countries, but also the factthat Japan received much more support from the internati...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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Gregorianum
Year: 2020, Volume: 101, Issue: 3, Pages: 573-592 |
| Further subjects: | B
Giappone
B periodo instabile B Corea B Cattolicesimo B modernizzazione compressa |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This paper explores the question of how to explain the sharp contrast betweenthe growth of the Catholic Church in Korea and the counterpart in Japan. Despitenot only the religio-cultural similarities between the two countries, but also the factthat Japan received much more support from the international Church, the CatholicChurch has grown explosively in Korea, but not in Japan. This paper examines the twoconventional explanations, economic and cultural, and then suggests an explanationin terms of the Church as an agent in the recent East Asian historical context ofcompressed modernization. It argues that the Church in Korea has grown rapidlyowing to its acquiring moral authority by its public engagement in that modernizationprocess, whereas the counterpart in Japan has been inward oriented, resulting in itsencapsulation in the foreignness of an imported religion. |
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