Vacillating between the Cold War and the Culture War: The Contemporary Predicament of the Korean Evangelical Right
- 주제(키워드) Evangelical Right , Cold War , Culture War , South Korea , social movement
- 주제(기타) Asian Studies
- 설명문(일반) [Suh, Myung-Sahm] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Christian Studies, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 AHCI, SCOPUS, KCI등재
- 발행기관 ACAD KOREAN STUDIES
- 발행년도 2021
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000190198
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As https://doi.org/10.25024/kj.2021.61.4.102
초록/요약
Since the early 21st century, conservative evangelicals in South Korea have actively engaged in contentious politics, playing a central role in organizing the right-wing social movement in civil society. At first, such politicized evangelicals, who may be dubbed as the Korean version of the Evangelical Right, conjured up the old specter of the Korean War and stood against those who, in their minds, went against the Cold War dogmata of anticommunism and pro-Americanism. Over the last two decades, however, the Korean Evangelical Right has expanded its battle line to confront other types of perceived enemies on the Culture War front, especially Islam and LGBTQ persons. By tracing the genealogy of their social movement, this paper explores the ways in which the Korean Evangelical Right finds itself in the predicament of wavering between the geopolitics of the Cold War and the global politics of the Culture War, insofar as these two wars operate on different sets of the friend-foe distinctions.
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