Intricate Modernity: The South Korean Protestant Experience.
This essay reconsiders the South Korean Protestant experience of modernity by complicating the widely accepted view that Protestantism marked a clean rupture from traditional society and religious culture. While often portrayed as a symbol of Western modernity and individualism, Korean Protestantism...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ecumenical Studies Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 27 - 55 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Winter2026
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