Author:
Chong, Kelly H., 1964-
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxiv, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:1 Entering the Field: Protestant Evangelicalism in Korea -- A Brief History -- The Contemporary Picture: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture -- Setting and Method -- A Note on Ethnography -- 2 Women's Conversion and the Contradictions of Contemporary Gender and Family Relations -- The Economic "Miracle" and the Quandaries of Compressed Development -- The Ideology and Structure of Neo-Confucian Patriarchy -- Changes and Contradictions in Family and Gender after World War II -- Women's Domestic Dilemmas -- 3 Search for Release, Search for Healing: Deliverance through Spiritual Practice -- Pathways to Conversion -- "Opening-Up" the Self -- The Power of Surrender -- Love, Forgiveness, and Empowerment -- 4 Negotiating Women's Space: Community, Autonomy, and Empowerment -- From "Helpmate" to "Kitchen Herd" -- Women's Space, Women's Community -- In Quest of Recognition: God's Work and Status Rewards -- Confidence and Fearlessness: Toward Internal Transformation -- Self-Cultivation and Learning -- 5 Bargaining with Patriarchy: The Politics of Submission and Gender -- Domesticating Willful Women: The Evangelical Ideology of Family and Gender -- The Paradox of Submission -- 6 Women's Redomestication and the Question of Consent -- The Two Sides of Religious Power -- Explaining Consent -- Women and Evangelicalism in South Korea: Blessing or Burden? -- The Politics of Resistance and Consent -- Of Women, Gender, Modernity, and the Future of Korean Evangelicalism.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index.
