Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments / vii Note on Names, Terms, and Titles / ix Chronology / xi 1 Considerations on Death in the Korean Context Michael J. Pettid and Charlotte Horlyck / 1 / Part I The Body 2 Death and Burial in Medieval Korea: The Buddhist Legacy Sem Vermeersch / 21 / 3 Making Death “Modern”: Reevaluating the Patient’s Body, Transforming Medical Practice, and Reforming Public Health at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957–1977 John P. DiMoia / 57 / Part II Disposal 4 Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times Charlotte Horlyck / 83 / 5 Death as a Nationalist Text: Reading the National Cemetery of South Korea Guy Podoler / 112 / vi / Contents Part III Ancestral Worship and Rites 6 Shamanic Rites for the Dead in Chosŏn Korea Michael J. Pettid / 137 / 7 The Familiar Dead: The Creation of an Intimate Afterlife in Early Chosŏn Korea Milan Hejtmanek / 155 / Part IV Afterlife 8 Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Koryŏ and Early Chosŏn Michael J. Pettid / 171 / 9 Buddhism and Death in Kim Man-jung’s A Nine Cloud Dream: From Fact to Fiction, and Nowhere Back Again Gregory N. Evon / 190 / 10 Dying for Heaven: Persecution, Martyrdom, and Family in the Early Korean Catholic Church Franklin Rausch / 213 / Bibliography / 237 List of Contributors / 257 Index / 259 ...