Water from Dragon's Well - David Kim-Cragg

Water from Dragon's Well

The History of a Korean-Canadian Church Relationship

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Buch | Hardcover
2022
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-1084-5 (ISBN)
134,65 inkl. MwSt
Challenging the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism, the century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship continues to transform the United Church of Canada’s mission. This book traces the origins and consequences of this little-known tributary in Korean-Canadian history, giving voice to two distinct historical-cultural perspectives.
A Canadian-built mission house in the heart of Seoul became the heart of the emerging South Korean democratization movement, while a Korean minister rose to serve as the spiritual leader of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination. The century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship has had a lasting influence on Korean society and on the culture and mission of the United Church of Canada, helping to crack the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism.

Water from Dragon’s Well explores the connection between the Korean Christian community and the Canadian church and its missionaries from the 1890s to the present. Upon the arrival of Canadian missionaries, Korean Christian churches were already voicing nationalist aspirations; by the mid-twentieth century, they were demanding independence from Canadian missionary oversight and were participating in a wider democratic movement within South Korea. David Kim-Cragg traces indigenous churches’ resistance to decades of missionary paternalism and the ways they channelled their religious and political energies. Accepting the criticism of its hosts, the United Church of Canada helped build an independent Korean Christian church and, in 1974, ended its Korean mission. This shift in the Canadian missionaries’ colonial attitudes also contributed to the transformation of the United Church of Canada back home. With the help of Korean leadership in Canada, the church reconstructed its vision of non-Western Christianity and, in a watershed moment, established an ethnic ministry council.

Situated within ongoing conversations about the legacies of colonization and racism, Water from Dragon’s Well shows how wellsprings of religion and politics from Korea challenged and transformed white Canadian attitudes and institutions.

David Kim-Cragg is lecturer at Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
Zusatzinfo 22 photos, 2 tables
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-2280-1084-5 / 0228010845
ISBN-13 978-0-2280-1084-5 / 9780228010845
Zustand Neuware
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