Climate Change, Inequality, and Vulnerabilities in Pre-Modern Korea: Implications for Mission After COVID-19
Korea's late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chosŏn Dynasty is marked by evidence of climate change. A distinctive feature of this period was the frequent outbreak of plagues such as cholera, dysentery, and typhoid, especially among the less privileged. There was, consequently, a large-s...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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2023
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Transformation
Anno: 2023, Volume: 40, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 95-106 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | KAH Età moderna KBM Asia KDB Chiesa cattolica RJ Missione ZC Politica generale |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Climate Change
B Missione B vulnerabilities B Catholicism B pre-modern Korea B Inequality |
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| Riepilogo: | Korea's late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chosŏn Dynasty is marked by evidence of climate change. A distinctive feature of this period was the frequent outbreak of plagues such as cholera, dysentery, and typhoid, especially among the less privileged. There was, consequently, a large-scale discontentment among the poor. In this milieu, some local Confucian scholars, dismayed by the prevailing corruption in the central government, withdrew themselves from government business, focused on studying imported Catholic texts from China, and converted to Catholicism. The emergence of indigenous religious movements also reflected this social reality. This paper explores the correlation among climate anomalies, decline in agricultural productivity, competition for limited common resources, heightened social inequality, and frequent plagues, and how Catholicism, an indigenous religious movement, and Protestant Christianity impacted and were impacted by these processes in Korea's late Chosŏn Dynasty. It also suggests missional implications of this in the post-Covid-19 era. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/02653788231151228 |
