OTHER CHRISTIANS AS CHRISTIAN OTHERS Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul

This chapter considers the role of semiotic differentiation, class, and denominationalism in the coterminous and interrelated social phenomena of the rapid postwar urbanization of Seoul and the rapid growth of Protestant Christianity in South Korea. I structure my account in terms of three religious...

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Published inHandbook of Religion and the Asian City p. 333
Main Author Nicholas Harkness
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of California Press 05.06.2015
Edition1
Subjects
Applied arts
Applied sociology
Architecture
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Buildings
Christian history
Christian missionaries
Christian philosophy
Christianity
Church congregations
Churches
Cities
Clergy
Ecclesiology
Human geography
Institutional buildings
Metropolitan areas
Missionaries
Pastors
Political geography
Practical theology
Protestantism
Religion
Religious buildings
Religious practices
Religious rituals
Social sciences
Sociology
Sociology of religion
Spiritual belief systems
Spiritual leaders
Theology
Worship services
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Summary:This chapter considers the role of semiotic differentiation, class, and denominationalism in the coterminous and interrelated social phenomena of the rapid postwar urbanization of Seoul and the rapid growth of Protestant Christianity in South Korea. I structure my account in terms of three religiously anchored views of the changing city. I argue that these views of the city manifest as perspectives on other Christians—or, in a sense, “Christian others,” those who claim one’s own Christian faith but appear alien or antithetical to it. Specifically, I link these views to worship styles that invoke, for Protestant Christians, other kinds of
ISBN:0520281225
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