The Puzzle of Korean Christianity: Geopolitical Networks and Religious Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century East AsiaThe Puzzle of Korean Christianity: Geopolitical Networks and Religious Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia  

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Kane, Danielle ; Jung Mee Park

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 115 no. 02 (Sep. 2009), page 365-404.
Topik: Geopolitical Networks; Religious Conversionin; Early Twentieth-Century; East Asia
Fulltext: The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 115, No. 2 (September 2009), pp. 365-404 (win).pdf (393.25KB)

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This article uses the puzzle of Christian success in Korea to develop a model for understanding religious diffusion beyond national borders. The authors argue that the microlevel network explanations that do minate the research on conversion cannot by themselves account for the unusual success of Protestantism in Korea. Instead, events in East Asia in macrolevel, geopolitical networks provoked nationalist rituals that altered the stakes of conversion to either promoteor retard conversion network growth. At the turn of the 20th century,unequal treaties both opened this region to missionaries and provoked nationalist rituals. In China and Japan, these rituals generated patriotic identities by attacking Christianity, and network growth slowedor reversed. In Korea, Christianity became compatible with these rituals, and conversion networks grew. This example high lights the greater explanatory power of nested networks for understanding international religious diffusion, relative to microlevel accounts alone.

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