Abstract
My dissertation focuses on the violence associated with two Korean Catholics from the late Chosŏn dynasty. My first subject, Alexius Hwang Sayŏng, wrote a letter during the anti-Catholic suppression of 1801 to the bishop of Beijing proposing that a Western armada invade Korea to force the Chosŏn state to tolerate Catholicism, only to be arrested and executed for treason. In 1909, my second subject, Thomas An Chunggŭn, assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the first resident-general of Korea, in hopes that his death would lead to the restoration of Korean independence. Through the study of their writings, interrogation reports, court records, public pronouncements, newspapers, missionary letters and journals, I reveal the different types of violence they sought to justify, suffered, and were reacting to.

While Hwang and Neo-Confucian officials both believed that violence could be legitimately deployed in order to actualize the worldviews mandated by their respective religions, the centrality of religion had largely been eclipsed by the secular ideologies of nationalism, Social-Darwinism, and Pan-Asianism, by An‟s time. This situation led to a struggle within and between An and foreign missionaries over the proper relationship between nation, state, and religion, and eventually to An‟s decision to kill Itō for both religious and secular reasons, even as the Catholic Church forbade violent resistance to Japan‟s colonial project.

Through a comparison of the violence associated with Hwang and An, I show that religion can both encourage and discourage violence at the same time, and that its influence can be shaped, magnified, or diminished by secular worldviews, proving the difficulty in simply labeling violence as “religious” or “secular,” and the essentially ambiguous nature of violence. I therefore propose that, in contravention to scholars who argue that religion is somehow more violent than secular ideologies, it is not so much whether a type of violence can be labeled as secular or religious, but the contents of that worldview, its relationship with other worldviews within an individual, and the historical context in which it is actualized, that is more important in determining its propensity for violence.

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The dawn of Christianity in Korea -- The foundation and development of the church in Korea -- The persecution of 1801 -- Continued church sufferings in provincial areas -- The establishment of the Korean Vicariate Apostolic -- The persecution of 1839 -- The great persecution of 1846 -- The development of the Catholic church in the reign of King Ch'ŏl-jong (1850-1863) -- The great persecution of 1866 -- The open-door policy -- The Catholic church in Korea under Japan and its continued growth -- The development and growth of the church after the Second World War -- Religious oppression during the Korean War -- The apostolic internunciature -- The province of Seoul -- The province of Tae-gu -- The province of Kwang-ju -- The missionary societies -- The religious orders and others.

Reprint. Originally published: Shanghai Tushanwan yinshuguan 上海土山灣印書館, 1929.

In collection: Hanyu Jidujiao zhenxi wenxian congkan. Di 1 ji 漢語基督教珍稀文獻叢刊. 第一辑 = Collected rare Christian books and documents in Chinese, vol. 10, pp. 1-179.

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Han'guk Ch'ŏnju kyohoesa ŭi pit kwa kŭrimja : Tonsa Cho Kwang Kyosu chŏngnyŏn kinyŏm nonch'ong 한국 천주 교회사 의 빛 과 그림자 :  敦史 趙 珖 교수 정년 기념 논총 / Cho Hyŏn-bŏm oe  조 현범 外.

Includes bibliographical references.

목차 내용 표제

 한국 천주교회사의 빛과 그림자 : 敦史 趙 珖 교수 정년기념 논총

저작자

 조현범 外

賀序 / 정만조

제1편 천주교회의 빛과 소금

  브뤼기에르 주교 연구를 위한 서설 / 조현범 = 15

  최경환 가문의 천주교 수용 / 김수태 = 55

  '하느님의 종' 최해성(요한)에 대한 연구 / 여진천 = 97

  에니어그램에 의한 강완숙과 정약종의 영성 연구 / 안미경 = 113

  지학순 주교의 세계에 열린 복음화 / 황종렬 = 173

제2편 한국 천주교회의 순교자와 증거자의 땅

  조선 후기 충청좌도의 천주교 전파 과정 연구 / 차기진 = 221

  18세기 말 내포 천주교회의 형성과 발전에 관한 시론 / 방상근 = 259

  영광지역의 천주교 전파와 박해 및 순교 터 / 서종태 = 287

  남원지역의 천주교 전파와 본당의 성장 / 김진소 = 321

  성 골롬반 외방선교회와 춘천교구 / 최선혜 = 367

  천주교 대전교구의 설정 / 김정환 = 399

제3편 한국 천주교회, 소용돌이 역사 속에서

  19세기 척사정책과 민중의 '반외세-국가의식'의 성장 / 이석원 = 425

  개항기(1882∼1910) 천주교 여성 신자들의 활동과 역할 / 손숙경 = 457

  일본인이 본 제주교안 / 박찬식 = 489

  일제강점기『경향잡지』논설ㆍ사설을 통해 본 한국 천주교회의 '민족ㆍ국민' 인식 / 윤선자 = 523

  일제시대 천주교 대구대목구 청년단체의 조직과 활동 - 남방천주교청년회를 중심으로 / 양인성 = 551

  현대 한국 가톨릭교회 여성 활동 - 1962년 교계제도 설정 이후 가톨릭 여성단체들의 현황과 전망 / 장정란 = 585

  쌍호공소 여성 신자들의 구성과 활동 / 김정숙 = 633

  1995년 6월, 명동성당은 성역(聖域)이었나? / 원재연 = 689

제4편 천주교와 한국문화의 만남

  천주가사「피악수선가(避惡修善歌)」연구 / 김영수 = 739

  조선 후기 천주교를 통한 서양화법의 수용과 진경산수화의 발달 / 노용필 = 789

  한국 천주교 유산의 세계문화유산 등재 가능성 검토 / 김정신 = 829

  일제강점기 군산시 종교 경관의 장소성 / 최진성 = 867

  전주 한옥마을의 문화 다양성과 천주교 / 홍성덕 = 893

  인간 배아의 정체성과 인간학적 지위 / 최진일 = 927

부록

  趙珖 교수 略歷 및 연구업적 = 953

  편집 후기 = 980

Contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Believers, martyrs and missionaries, 1592-1876; 3. Evangelism, patriotism and revivalism, 1876-1910; 4. Oppression, resistance and millennial hope, 1910-45; 5. Liberation, service and divisions, 1945-61; 6. Growth, thought and struggle, 1961-88; 7. Missions, reconciliation and public life, 1988 to the present.

"With a third of South Koreans now identifying themselves as Christian, Christian churches play an increasingly prominent role in the social and political events of the Korean peninsula. Sebastian Kim and Kirsteen Kim's comprehensive and timely history of different Christian denominations in Korea includes surveys of the Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions as well as new church movements. They examine the Korean Christian diaspora and missionary movements from South Korea and also give cutting-edge insights into North Korea. This book, the first recent one-volume history and analysis of Korean Christianity in English, highlights the challenges faced by the Christian churches in view of Korea's distinctive and multireligious cultural heritage, South Korea's rapid rise in global economic power and the precarious state of North Korea, which threatens global peace. This History will be an important resource for all students of world Christianity, Korean studies and mission studies"-- Provided by publisher.

History of the Korean Church : preceded by an introduction on Korean history, institutions, language, mores, and customs, with a map and plates / by Charles Dallet ; translated by Gari Ledyard

Translated from Histoire de l'eglise de Corée. Paris : V. Palmé, 1874. (translation copyright 1989, 2000)

Includes bibliographical references.

v.1. Book 1. From the first martyrdoms until the arrival of Father Jacques Zhou, a Chinese priest sent by the bishop of Peking 1784-1794 ; Book 2. From the arrival of Father Zhou in Korea to his glorious martyrdom 1794-1801 -- v. 2. Book 3. From the martyrdom of Father Zhou to the end of the persecution 1801-1802.

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”Another copy Gleeson Library”

Sungsil Taehakkyo Han'guk Kidokkyo Pangmulgwan 숭실대학교 한국 기독교 박물관 = The Korean Christian museum at Soongsil university.

Text in Korean, with captions in English.