Building a Heaven on Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building a Heaven on Earth write by Albert L. Park. This book was released on 2014-12-31. Building a Heaven on Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why and how did Korean religious groups respond to growing rural poverty, social dislocation, and the corrosion of culture caused by forces of modernization under strict Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945)? Questions about religion's relationship and response to capitalism, industrialization, urbanization, and secularization lie at the heart of understanding the intersection between colonialism, religion, and modernity in Korea. Yet, getting answers to these questions has been a challenge because of narrow historical investigations that fail to study religious processes in relation to political, economic, social, and cultural developments. In Building a Heaven on Earth, Albert L. Park studies the progressive drives by religious groups to contest standard conceptions of modernity and forge a heavenly kingdom on the Korean peninsula to relieve people from fierce ruptures in their everyday lives. The results of his study will reconfigure the debates on colonial modernity, the origins of faith-based social activism in Korea, and the role of religion in a modern world. Building a Heaven on Earth, in particular, presents a compelling story about the determination of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the Presbyterian Church, and the Ch'ŏndogyo to carry out large-scale rural movements to form a paradise on earth anchored in religion, agriculture, and a pastoral life. It is a transnational story of leaders from these three groups leaning on ideas and systems from countries, such as Denmark, France, Japan, and the United States, to help them reform political, economic, social, and cultural structures in colonial Korea. This book shows that these religious institutions provided discursive and material frameworks that allowed for an alternative form of modernity that featured new forms of agency, social organization, and the nation. In so doing, Building a Heaven on Earth repositions our understandings of modern Korean history.
Building HEAVEN on EARTH
Building HEAVEN on EARTH - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building HEAVEN on EARTH write by Joshua Alexander. This book was released on 2018-03-18. Building HEAVEN on EARTH available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is heaven on earth possible? If so, how do we get there? Is there a way, and do we have a say? Do our choices matter? Building HEAVEN on EARTH addresses those questions, provides some practical insights, and gives steps to follow, referencing the teachings of Jesus. We are all in this together, and we can help build heaven on earth for all!
How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth hc
How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth hc - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth hc write by John E. Wade II. This book was released on 2011-07-13. How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth hc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of 101 essays from some of today's most notable thinkers and leaders focuses on the large problems of society, as well as every day challenges, and encourages readers to envision a positive change. The essays explore the themes of peace, democracy, prosperity, racial harmony, ecology, and health, encouraging readers to find meaning in their own lives and share it with others.
Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heaven on Earth write by R. Alan Streett. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Heaven on Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The future hope of heaven is pulled into the here-and-now in this illuminating description of the kingdom of God. Popular teacher and author R. Alan Streett exposes half-truths about the kingdom that many believers have unwittingly accepted. He contrasts these with the testimony of Scripture: Jesus inaugurated the kingdom of God on the earth—it has already begun. As ambassadors of the kingdom, we are to fulfill our responsibilities and enjoy its benefits here and now. Salvation does not culminate with the soul escaping the body and living forever in heaven. Our bodies will eventually be transformed, and we will live with God on a restored earth. The church is like an embassy of heaven in a foreign country. In their life together, believers demonstrate kingdom realities to the world. Readers will find hope and direction in this fresh presentation of the historic teaching on the kingdom.
Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way
Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way write by Carl Young. This book was released on 2014-08-31. Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tonghak, or Eastern Learning, was the first major new religion in modern Korean history. Founded in 1860, it combined aspects of a variety of Korean religious traditions. Because of its appeal to the poor and marginalized, it became best known for its prominent role in the largest peasant rebellion in Korean history in 1894, which set the stage for a wider regional conflict, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895. Although the rebellion failed, it caused immense changes in Korean society and played a part in the war that ended in Japan's victory and its eventual rise as an imperial power. It was in this context of social change and an increasingly perilous international situation that Tonghak rebuilt itself, emerging as Ch’ŏndogyo (Teaching of the Heavenly Way) in 1906. During the years before Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910, Ch’ŏndogyo continued to evolve by engaging with new currents in social and political thought, strengthening its institutions, and using new communication technologies to spread its religious and political message. In spite of Korea’s loss of independence, Ch’ŏndogyo would endure and play a major role in Korean nationalist movements in the Japanese colonial period, most notably the March First independence demonstrations in 1919. It was only able to thrive thanks to the processes that had taken place in the twilight years of Korean independence. This book focuses on the internal developments in the Tonghak and Ch’ŏndogyo movements between 1895 and 1910. Drawing on a variety of sources in several languages such as religious histories, doctrinal works, newspapers, government reports, and foreign diplomatic reports, it explains how Tonghak survived the turmoil following the failed 1894 rebellion to set the foundations for Ch’ŏndogyo’s important role in the Japanese colonial period. The story of Tonghak and Ch’ŏndogyo not only is an example of how new religions interact with their surrounding societies and how they consolidate and institutionalize themselves as they become more established; it also reveals the processes by which Koreans coped and engaged with the challenges of social, political, and economic change and the looming darkness that would result in the extinguishing of national independence at the hands of Japan’s expanding empire.
