[KS] Korea Journal: Winter 2025 special issue, "Rethinking the Religious Landscape of Early 20th-Century Korea"

[Henry Em]

*Korea Journal* is pleased to announce the publication of its Winter 2025
special issue, titled "Rethinking the Religious Landscape of Early
20th-Century Korea."

Along with an annotated translation and commentary on "Teachings of Master
Haewol," this special issue features five research articles that
investigate under-examined aspects of Korea’s intellectual, religious, and
political modernization.

Guest edited by Professor Minjung Baek (The Catholic University of Korea),
the contributors provide fresh perspectives on how indigenous
movements—including Donghak, Cheondogyo, Won Buddhism, and
Daejonggyo—attempted to articulate a uniquely Korean religiosity and
practice during a period of immense transformation.

Through close textual analysis of works produced under Japanese censorship,
this special issue illuminates consequential intellectual and religious
interventions, from the "religionization" of Confucianism and the
proliferation of apocalyptic prophecies to visions of *hucheon gaebyeok*
(Great Awakening of the Later Heaven).

Founded in 1961, *Korea Journal* is an open-access, peer-reviewed quarterly
promoting the global dissemination of Korean studies scholarship. All
articles are freely available under a CC-BY-ND license, which permits
distribution with proper attribution and without modification.

Henry Em (Deputy Editor-in-Chief)   |  Jooyeun Son (Managing Editor)

[On this topic] Rethinking the Religious Landscape of Early 20th-Century
> Korea <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/1/58102>
>
> Family Resemblances of Religious Reappropriation in Modern Korean
> Indigenous New Religions <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/11/58103>
>
> Views on the Spirituality and Sanctification of Personality in Cheondogyo
> in the Early 20thCentury: Focusing on Son Byeong-hui’s Theory of MindNature
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/46/58104>
>
> The Transformation of Buddhist Thought and Religious Modernity in Early
> 20th-Century Korea: The Case of Won Buddhism
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/74/58105>
>
> Religion as an Epistemic Challenge: The Confucian Response in Early
> 20th-Century Korea <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/106/58106>
>
> The Landscape of Last Days Foretold by Religions: Differentiation of
> Prophecy among New Religions under Japanese Colonial Rule
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/133/58107>
>
> Teachings of Master Haewol 海月神師法說: Annotated Translation and Commentary
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/168/58109>
>
> __________

> Research Articles:
>
> The Ojadeung gwaja System in the Joseon Dynasty: Institutionalizing
> Confucian Education and Family Rewards
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/263/58110>
>
> The Taekwondowon: Landmark for Taekwondo’s Future or Monumental Misstep?
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/292/58112>
>
> Doctoring the Population: Medical Science, the White-Yellow War, and
> Fertility in Early Colonial Korea
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/317/58113>
>
> Home and Hope for a Family in Exile: Jessie’s Diary as a Source of Wartime
> Refuge and Resilience (1938–1946)
> <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/347/58114>
>
> [Book Review] Beyond Nationalism and Ecological Exceptionalism: Biological
> Peace in the DMZ’s Anthropocene <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/4/374/58116>
>

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