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| author | KwangYu Lee |
| title | A Jungian Psychohistorical Analysis of the Growth of the Korean Protestant Church: Trauma and Cultural Complex |
| abstract |
This research aims at investigating the psychological reason of the rapid growth of the Korean Protestant Church in the past century at a collective level.
Utilizing a Jungian psychohistorical methodology that considers the workings of unconsciousness, rather than of consciousness, as the main agents of history,
it claims that what motivated up to one-fourth of S. Koreans to massively convert to Protestantism in the past century was their cultural, or collective, complex
of inferiority – the unconscious workings of the paradoxical coexistence of self-humiliation, self-hate and excessive idealization of the other. To explain how
the cultural complex pushed them to hold on to Protestantism in the form of a mass phenomenon, the research first offers a brief sketch of the Korean Protestant
Church's history, introduces the Jungian psychohistorical theory, and investigates into Korea's traumatic history of the twentieth century in which a series of
tragedies befell on them – such as Japanese Imperialism, the U.S. Military Government in Korea, the Korean War, and the Korean military governments. Last, a
Jungian psychohistorical analysis that discovers how their cultural unconsciousness, traumatized by the tragic historical facts, influenced them to turn to
Protestantism will be presented.
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| school | The Theological School, Drew University |
| degree | Ph.D. (2019) |
| advisors | Angella Son
Meredith Hoxie Schol |
| committee | Angella Son
Robert S. Corrington
Christopher Anderson |
| full text | KYLee.pdf |
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