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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The <i>Journal of Korean
Religions</i> (JKR) would like to announce the April 2015
publication of Volume 6, Number 1, "Pure Land Buddhism in Korea."
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This issue, guest edited by Richard McBride, is the first of its
kind in English to focus on Pure Land teaching and practice in
Korea. It also features the first in a series titled "Religious
Thinkers of Modern Korea", edited by Jin Park and Timothy Lee, on
ten great figures of Korean Buddhism and Christianit<font
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<u>Articles</u>:
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The Cult of the Pure Land of Maitreya in Paekche and Silla in the
Three Kingdoms Period
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by CHOI Yeonshik (Dongguk University) <br>
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The Pure Land of the One Mind in Wŏnhyo’s Thought
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by KIM JongWook (Dongguk University) <br>
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The Cult of the Hwaŏm Pure Land of the Koryŏ Period as seen
through Self-Power and Other-Power
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by KIM Cheon-hak (Dongguk University) <br>
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Koryŏ Buddhist Paintings and the Cult of Amitābha: Visions of a
Hwaŏm-Inspired Pure Land
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by Richard D. McBRIDE II (Brigham Young University - Hawai'i) <br>
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The Establishment of the Approach of Chanting Amitābha’s Name and
the Proliferation of Pure Land Buddhism in Late Chosŏn
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by KIM Yongtae (Dongguk University) <br>
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The Otherworldly Counter-Discourse of Yŏmbul <i>pogwŏnmun</i>: An
Eighteenth-century Pure Land Text
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by Boudewijn WALRAVEN (Leiden University) <br>
<br>
Special Series: Religious Thinkers of Modern Korea
<br>
Series Introduction
<br>
by Timothy S. LEE (Brite Divinity School) and Jin Y. PARK
(American University) <br>
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The Christian Spirituality of Cardinal Sou-hwan Kim:
Contextualized and Interpreted
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by Pyong-Gwan PAK (Sogang University) <br>
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<u>Research Article</u>
<br>
French Catholic Spirituality and the Nineteenth-century Korean
Church
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by Andrew J. FINCH <br>
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<u>Book Reviews</u>
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<i>Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun</i>. Kim Iryŏp, trans. Jin Y.
Park.
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Reviewed by Mark A. NATHAN (University of Buffalo) <br>
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<i>Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean
Moral Primer</i>. Young Kyun Oh.
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Reviewed by Gregory N. EVON (University of New South Wales) <br>
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<i>Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way</i>. Carl Young.
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Reviewed by Paul BEIRNE (Yarra Theological Union) <br>
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<i>A History of Korean Christianity</i>. Sebastian C.H. Kim and
Kirsteen Kim.
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Reviewed by Sean C. KIM (University of Central Missouri) <br>
<br>
<i>Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in
Christian South Korea</i>. Nicholas Harkness.
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Reviewed by Kyung-Nan KOH (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) <br>
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Our next issue, Vol. 6 No. 2, October 2015, will be a theme issue
on “Religion, War, and Peace in Korea.” <br>
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We also want to inform scholars from all disciplines about our
continuing call for papers on all topics pertaining to Korean
religion.
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"></font>Submissions and
inquiries should be sent to the Managing Editor: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:journalkr@sogang.ac.kr">journalkr@sogang.ac.kr</a><br>
Style guidelines can be found here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/JKRsubguide">http://bit.ly/JKRsubguide</a>
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For more information about the Journal of Korean Religions, please
see our journal's website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jkr.sogang.ac.kr/">http://jkr.sogang.ac.kr/</a><br>
You can also find us digitally on Project Muse, JSTOR, and the
Thomson Reuters A&HCI. <br>
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Best wishes,
<br>
Kim Seong-nae
<br>
Don Baker
<br>
Editors-in-Chief, <i>Journal of Korean Religions </i><i></i><br>
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