Science, state, and spirituality

Stories of four creationists in South Korea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5086886
AutoresHyung Wook Park (0000-0002-9708-4110, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, autor de correspondencia), Kyuhoon Cho (Asia Center, Seoul National University, South Korea)
Año2018
Volumen56
Número1
Páginas35-71
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0073-2753 • E-ISSN: 1753-8564
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0073275317740268
PMID29241363
OpenAlexW2771680741
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas13

This paper presents an analysis of the birth and growth of scientific creationism in South Korea by focusing on the lives of four major contributors. After creationism arrived in Korea in 1980 through the global campaign of leading American creationists, including Henry Morris and Duane Gish, it steadily grew in the country, reflecting its historical and social conditions, and especially its developmental state with its structured mode of managing science and appropriating religion. We argue that while South Korea's creationism started with the state-centered conservative Christianity under the government that also vigilantly managed scientists, it subsequently constituted some technical experts' efforts to move away from the state and its religion and science through their negotiation of a new identity as Christian intellectuals ( chisigin). Our historical study will thus explain why South Korea became what Ronald Numbers has called "the creationist capital of the world

Christianity · Creationism · Epistemology · Political science · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices