Friends, Foes and Partners: The Relationship between the Canadian Missionaries and Korean Christians in North-eastern Korea and Manchuria from 1898 until 1927
At the start of the 1920s the Korean Christian community in Hamgyeong Province and Manchuria had little control over the financial and educational policies of the Canadian Presbyterian missionaries. By the end of the decade the Presbyteries determined how the home funds would be spent on evangelical...
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University Press
[2017]
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Studies in world christianity
Année: 2017, Volume: 23, Numéro: 3, Pages: 194-217 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | KAH Époque moderne KAJ Époque contemporaine KBM Asie KBQ Amérique du Nord RJ Mission |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Manchuria
B Missionaries B Canadian missionaries B northern Korea B mission education B Religious Life B Japanese imperialism B Korean Christianity B Christianity B Evangelicalism B Presbyterians |
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| Résumé: | At the start of the 1920s the Korean Christian community in Hamgyeong Province and Manchuria had little control over the financial and educational policies of the Canadian Presbyterian missionaries. By the end of the decade the Presbyteries determined how the home funds would be spent on evangelical work and Korean church leaders sat on a Joint Board with the Canadians to aid in the management of the mission. The Canadian decision to share power with the Koreans was made out of necessity. Throughout the 1920s, students, elders, ministers and a large segment of the laity vigorously, sometimes violently, advocated for a transformation of mission policies. The Canadians became extremely fearful and concluded that to save the mission they would have to reform their methods. In the literature published on the mission, the 'positive side' of the story, namely the Canadian ability to empathise with the Koreans and their denouncements of the Japanese colonial regime in 1919 as well as 1920, has been emphasised. This article focuses on the less seemly nature of the Canadian-Korean relationship. It will examine the temporal factors that contributed to the Korean acceptance of missionary authority before 1919, their rejection of it in the 1920s and the attempts of the Canadians to bring order back to the mission compounds. The ultimate purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Korean Christians were active agents who through their protests during the 1920s came to assume a prominent position within the mission. |
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| ISSN: | 1354-9901 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Studies in world christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/swc.2017.0192 |