Buddhist-Christian Studies
Volume 20, 2000
E-ISSN: 1527-9472 Print ISSN: 0882-0945
DOI: 10.1353/bcs.2000.0035
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Harry L. Wells
Korean Temple Burnings and Vandalism: The Response of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Buddhist-Christian Studies - Volume 20, 2000, pp. 239-240
University of Hawai'i Press
Harry L. Wells - Korean Temple Burnings and Vandalism: The Response of
the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies - Buddhist-Christian Studies
20 Buddhist-Christian Studies 20 (2000) 239-240
News and Views Korean Temple Burnings and Vandalism: The Response of
the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Harry L. Wells Humboldt
State University Over the course of the last decade a fairly large
number of Buddhist temples in South Korea have been destroyed or
damaged by fire by misguided Christian fundamentalists. More recently,
Buddhist statues have been identified as idols, and attacked and
decapitated in the name of Jesus. Arrests are hard to effect, as the
arsonists and vandals work by stealth of night. In 1998, the...