Mindful Awareness as a Method of Christian Scripture Meditation among Empathic Korean Mothers in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-242
Author(s):  
Priscilla Hwang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Mindful Awareness ◽  
Korean Mothers ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Christian Perspective

This project is intended to examine the current phenomena, known as mindful awareness, from a Christian perspective. The purpose of this study was to explore how Christian Scripture meditation was perceived in light of the three factors of mindful awareness—focused attention, awareness, meta-awareness—in the practice of Christian Korean mothers who had greater mindful awareness and empathy. The participants in this study were mothers who attend Protestant churches in South Korea. All participants (n=181) were filtered for mindful awareness and empathy, and the 25 mothers with the greater level of mindful awareness and empathy were interviewed.

Das “andere” Wachstumswunder. Protestantische Kirchen in Südkorea / The “Other” Success Story. Protestant Churches in South Korea

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kern
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Protestant Churches

ZusammenfassungDer vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem explosiven Wachstum der protestantischen Kirchen in Südkorea (1950–1995). Der religiöse Wandel wird im Zusammenhang mit dem Einfluss ausländischer Mächte, der Beziehung zwischen Staat und Religion, Urbanisierung, Kirchenspaltung, offensiver Missionierungspolitik, der Bildung neuer Eliten und besonderen kulturellen Einflüssen empirisch untersucht. Die Studie versteht sich dabei als Beitrag zur aktuellen Debatte in der Religionssoziologie, die Mobilisierungsprozesse in Verbindung mit sozialstrukturellen Rahmenbedingungen („europäischer Ansatz“) auf der einen Seite und religiöser Angebotsausdehnung („amerikanischer Ansatz“) auf der anderen Seite kontrovers diskutiert. Das Erklärungspotential beider Positionen kommt in der Studie zur Anwendung. Darüber hinaus wird der Diskurs durch die Betonung der religiösen Nachfragestrukturen und daraus resultierenden Aggregationseffekten erweitert und ergänzt. Hieraus ergeben sich wichtige Impulse für die religionssoziologische Erforschung vergleichbarer Transformationsprozesse in Lateinamerika, Afrika, Osteuropa und Südostasien.

The Evangelization of Korea, c.1895–1910: Translation of the Gospel or Reinvention of the Church?

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 359-375
Author(s):  
Kirsteen Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Korean Christianity ◽  
Protestant Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Several studies of the history of Protestant Christianity in South Korea have argued that the religion's rapid growth was chiefly because of the successful translation of the gospel into Korean language and thought. While agreeing that the foundation laid in this respect by early Western missionaries and Korean Christians was a necessary prerequisite for evangelization, this article challenges the use of a translation theory, such as has been developed by Lamin Sanneh, to describe the way that Christianity took root in Korea, both on the basis of conceptual discussions in the field of mission studies and also on historical grounds. It draws on research for A History of Korean Christianity (2014) to examine the years of initial rapid growth in Protestant churches in Korea – 1895 to 1910. Its findings suggest that rather than ‘translation of the gospel’ a more historically accurate description of what took place is ‘reinvention of the Church’.

“A Permitted Haven in a Heartless World: Colleges and Churches in South Korea in the 1950s”

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Dong-Choon Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Republic ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

In the 1950s, Christianity and educational achievement were the primary means for Koreans to break through the misery and powerlessness that the conflict from June 1950 to July 1953 had caused. Along with education, religion was a promising route in securing familial welfare for South Koreans. Among the several religions and denominations, Protestant churches were more popular for the uprooted people residing in urban areas. These two privately motivated daily activities—education and religion—captured the concern of the Korean people who had lost everything during the war. Under President Syngman Rhee’s “police state” and infrastructural ruin, religious and educational institutions filled the vacuum in the Republic of Korea that the Korean War had left in civil society. The Korean “habitus” of family promotion in the 1950s foretold the fast economic growth of the 1960s and 1970s. This paper will show how South Korea, during that decade, witnessed the formation of a new familialism, which tended to focus on the family’s fortune and money as a final goal. Ethical understandings and political decisions were secondary to the main priority of family promotion.

scholarly journals Religion and Public Conflict in the Post-COVID Era: The Case of Protestant Churches in South Korea

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 851
Author(s):  
Saehwan Lee ◽  
Seil Oh
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Worship Services ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Service Attendance

Governments have attempted to contain the COVID-19 outbreak with a variety of regulations, including social distancing, facemask mandates, or limits on gatherings. South Korea was concerned by the “supercluster” case of a sectarian religious organization in February 2020. Since then, some Protestant churches have periodically caused cluster infections showing antagonism against health authorities. First, we traced all 2020 cluster cases and identified their denominational characteristics. We then utilized the 2020 CISJD data and conducted a series of multivariate regressions to answer the research question, “What causes differences among denominations in attitudes toward public disease control and in-person service attendance?” Results indicated that Protestants affiliated with liberal churches were more likely to follow public disease control guidelines and less likely to attend in-person religious services during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared with individuals from other denominations. Protestants affiliated with moderate, conservative, and fundamentalist churches tended to share antagonism toward public disease control, while cherishing in-person community rituals. This research highlights social implications of public conflict in Korea, where many Protestant churches have emphasized the significance of traditional worship services, claiming the constitutional right of religious freedom, while the majority of citizens, religious and non-religious, disagree with such exclusive claims against public safety.

SOUTH KOREA IN 2003: A Question of Leadership?

Asian Survey ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Yung Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The Political ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Labor Policies

Abstract In 2003, South Koreans focused attention on the political problems of newly elected President Roh. As elections set for early 2004 approached, the president, once above suspicion, faced the specter of financial scandal implicating at least his top aides. His party split, his labor policies generated unrest, and his political future became increasingly unclear.

scholarly journals Crossing and Conversion among North Korean Refugee-Migrants

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 510
Author(s):  
Jin-Heon Jung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
The South ◽  
North Korean Refugee ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Role Of Religion

While pivotal in the lives of North Korean refugee-migrants, the role of religion has been largely neglected in most studies. After being exposed to Protestant missionary networks, either while dwelling in Northeast China or en route to the South, about 80 percent of North Korean refugee-migrants arriving in South Korea affiliate themselves with Protestant churches. This implies that they are exposed to Protestant missionary networks either while dwelling in Northeast China or en route to the South. Some who leave South Korea for other countries or seek asylum in non-Korean societies develop their religiosity in various ways and for various reasons, as part of their aspirations, adjustment to new homes, and search for meaning. The present study aims to address this literature gap. Based on long-term ethnographic research with North Korean refugee-migrants living in South Korea, China, and Europe, the two ethnographic vignettes presented in this article represent those who are in Germany and the United Kingdom by discussing the religious encounters and conversions through which North Korean refugee-migrants make their lives and futures. It draws attention to religion as a lens through which the migrants’ negotiation of meanings, new selves and homelands, and hopes for the future can be better illuminated. The findings of this study suggest that when North Korean Christians experience religious conversion during their perilous journeys, it not only helps them to negotiate a new sense of belonging in their host societies, but it also mobilizes them to contest the existing order of things.

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

Depression, self-focused attention, and the negative memory bias.

1989 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Pyszczynski ◽  
James C. Hamilton ◽  
Fred H. Herring ◽  
Jeff Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Memory Bias ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Negative Memory
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