{"product_id":"spirit-power-politics-and-religion-in-koreas-american-century-hardback-9780823299928","title":"Spirit Power; Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century (Hardback) 9780823299928","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpirit Power\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitics and Religion in Korea's American Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeonik Kwon (Author), Jun Hwan Park (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823299928\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 August 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 8 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.516 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirit Power\u003c\/i\u003e explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea's shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea's enduring shamanism tradition.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Religion and the Cold War   13\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eThe American Spirit   39\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eVoyage to Knoxville, 1982   69\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eSeeking Good Luck   90\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eOriginal Political Society   112\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003eParallelism   136\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion \u003c\/b\u003e  157\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  171\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  201\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  217\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580486218008,"sku":"9780823299928","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/spirit-power-politics-and-religion-in-koreas-american-century-hardback-9780823299928","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}