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Han, Garam – Religious Education, 2021
Through the story of Korean Bible Women and the South Korean #MeToo movement today, this paper explores how Korean women's innate creativity and imagination have challenged the patriarchal and hierarchical standpoints of the Korean Protestant church and society. Furthermore, this paper invites the Korean Protestant Church to confront the reality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Churches, Females
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Tasing Chiu – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
In the late nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries introduced modern education for the blind people in Taiwan and Korea. They developed various tactile reading systems to enhance literacy and provided handicraft training for self-sufficiency. When these regions came under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Blindness, Foreign Countries, Tactile Adaptation
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Cawley, Kevin N. – History of Education, 2023
'Christian pyrexia' and 'education fever' have contributed greatly to the empowerment of women in Korea and helped with the transformation of Korean society more broadly. This article begins with an overview of the Confucian gender constructs and delimiting social expectations of women in the pre-modern period. It then focuses on the changing…
Descriptors: Christianity, Sex Fairness, Protestants, Females
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Neuhaus, Dolf-Alexander – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This article sets out to elucidate the role of Japanese Protestants in the education of Koreans during the early twentieth century. Scholarship has often assigned only marginal roles to Japanese Protestants within the history of Japanese imperialism, despite the remarkable success of western missionaries in Korea at the time. As imperial expansion…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Protestants, Foreign Policy, Religious Education
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Lee, Myung-sil – Religious Education, 2017
Shortly after the rise of Protestantism in Korea in the 1880s, Bible classes began to be formed to promote the study of Christian scripture. By the mid-1890s, these classes were being widely offered. As a result of The Great Revival Movement of 1907, the need for a system to educate and form new believers became evident. In this article, I examine…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Protestants, Christianity, Religious Education
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Lee, Yoonmi – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
The work of the Australian mission in the southern part of Korea during the first half of the twentieth century has been a relatively undeveloped subject in scholarly research. By focusing on the educational work of the mission between 1910 and 1941, this article provides an overview of how the missionaries interacted with the Japanese colonial…
Descriptors: Religion, Foreign Policy, Religious Education, Asians
Nho, Sung Hyun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quantitative study examined the relationship between ministry satisfaction and spiritual maturity among adult church volunteers in the Korean Presbyterian church in South Korea (Kosin). It also sought to investigate factors related to volunteers' job satisfaction and their spiritual maturity. Participants included 531 adult small group…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Satisfaction, Spiritual Development, Adults
Noh, Kyeong Cheon – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study has the aim of examining the effects obtained mainly through the leadership development process through small group dynamics for the purpose of making the youth group church, vitalized. The church reached the conclusion that the important problem for continuous church development was how to find a trained leader and to help the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Leadership Training, Young Adults