[KS] most Christian city in Asia

[Lucas Husgen]

All of this may have to do with the Protestant conception of themselves as 
representing the true essence of Christianity and therefore being more 
rightly called Christians, whereas the name of Catholicism ("the 
allencompassing") in their mind would point to the institutional aspect of 
Christianity, and therefore be a token of corruption of original values.

I experienced the fierceness of Korean Christians at Kangnung Tanoje once, 
in their protesting of this heathen festival: it hinted that they would 
probably take the same stance towards Catholicism.

Generally, a recent book by Robert Greeley, 'Catholic Imagination', on the 
basis of sociological surveys shows that Catholics are generally of a more 
liberal mindset than Protestants.

So I wonder: isn't it also true for a fact that Koreans are much more 
taking to Buddhism again these days? Might they not have become wary of 
the strictness, involved with hardline Protestant communities?

Still, I do remember a Seoulite travel group (at least, they had a Seoul 
accent) at Hyangiram, poking fun at the place.


Best,

Lucas


On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:34:59 -0600, Richard Miller <rcmiller at wisc.edu> 
wrote:

> It absolutely is not a Korean-only phenomenon. Indonesia, for example,
> officially recognizes "five religions:" Christian, Catholic, Muslim, 
> Hindu,
> and Buddhist. I believe that this usage (Christian vs. Catholic) comes 
> from
> Dutch practice during the colonial period. It's not really a
> "mistranslation," I don't think, although it certainly doesn't line up 
> with
> mainstream US practice.
>
> Richard
>
> Richard Miller
> UW-Madison School of Music
> http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~rcmiller/
>
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>> Subject: Re: [KS] most Christian city in Asia
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>>
>> I do not believe this is only a Korean phenomenon. While teaching
>> World Regional Geography courses at the University of Kentucky in
>> the early 1990's, I often read undergraduate essays with
>> sentences like, "Ireland is primarily Catholic but there are some
>> Christians too." At first I thought this was an amusing error
>> until I found out that some of the churches these students were
>> attending did not consider Catholics to be Christians. They may
>> have called them something akin to  papists, idolators, or Mother
>> Mary cultists, but they were not willing to acknowledge them as
>> Christians. I saw some tracts that went so far as to equate the
>> pope with Satan.
>>
>> I do not know what the official doctrinal stances are of the
>> various protestant churches are in Korea in relation to this
>> issue but I would guess there might be more to this question than
>> a simple mistranslation.
>>
>> Joshua Van Lieu
>
>



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