Don Baker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3869529 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Don Baker |
| PRENOMES | Don |
| SOBRENOME | Baker |
| ASSINATURA | BAKER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1908-7041 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Creationism in a South Korean Culture
Half a century ago, when I was just beginning a career exploring Korean history and culture, there were so few academic books in English focused on Korea (with the exception of books on the Korean War) that we few Anglophones in the field felt that we should read every title we ran across. With the explosion of interest in Korea across the English-speaking world over the decades since then, that is no longer possible. Instead, we have to pick and…
“Everyone here [is] a customer”
This article examines the implementation of a harm reduction pilot project in a Canadian permanent supportive living facility for older people with experiences of homelessness (OPEH). Nearing the conclusion of the intervention, two nominal group technique (NGT) sessions were facilitated to identify key learnings from the project. The key learnings informed a secondary analysis of qualitative interviews with stakeholders from health and social ser…
A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral
An Influencer's World
Introducing Daesoon Philosophy to the West
Daesoon philosophy has been described as a quintessential Korean philosophy. Given the great difference between traditional Western and East Asian ways of thinking, how can such a quintessential Korean philosophy be explained to people who have no background in traditional East Asian thought? After all, the Daeson Jinrihoe way of approaching such core problems as how to make this world a better place is not only very different from the way the We…
Invented Traditions in North and South Korea
Creating the Sacred and the Secular in Colonial Korea
The thirty-five-year-long Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–1945) stimulated a significant transformation of the traditional Korean concept of religion, which in turn stimulated changes in the Korean understanding of the secular and the sacred. Traditional Korea lacked an explicit definition of religion. Under Japanese rule, Koreans absorbed the modern Japanese bureaucratic definition of religion, which also included a definition of what Japanes…
J uhn Y. A hn . Buddhas and Ancestors
The relationship between social change and religious change is an issue historians frequently wrestle with. Do changes in the dominant religion in a society stimulate changes in its social hierarchy, including who is ranked among the elite? Do alterations in a social hierarchy, bringing new faces to the fore, change which religious beliefs and practices are considered more prestigious and therefore bring about changes in the religious beliefs and…
Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea
A study of Korea’s first significant encounter with Western civilization, this work analyzes how Koreans reacted to Catholicism imported from China at the end of the 18 th century. It explores the reason most Koreans, especially Confucian scholars and government officials, reacted negatively to Catholic ideas and practices, going so far as to launch an official persecution of Catholics that cost thousands of lives. To render visible the philosoph…
Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea
Confucianism and Civilization
For most of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), Koreans ranked the countries and peoples in their neighborhood on a scale from civilized to barbarian, with the more Confucianized ranking higher than the less Confucianized. Using that scale, they put the Ryūkyū kingdom ahead of Japan, and Tshushima below both of them. Tasan Chŏng Yagyong (1762–1836) accepted both that equation of civilization with Confucianization and that ranking. However, he was imp…
Rhetoric, Ritual, and Political Legitimacy
Asian Religions in British Columbia
British Columbia is Canada’s most ethnically diverse province. Although the presence of Asian religions is felt and discussed in many regions, we know little about the religions that accompanied immigrants from Asia or how they are practised today. Asian Religions in British Columbia brings together fourteen religious studies scholars who offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist orga…
John Piper, ‘Conqueror of the Interior’
The lesser known John Piper, usually referred to simply as Piper, the subject of this article, was an Aborigine who accompanied Thomas Mitchell on his 1836 expedition into Australia Felix. Very probably
Wanderers in Eden
A comparison of the exploring experiences of Australian explorer Thomas Mitchell with those of his American counterparts Lewis and Clark shows certain similarities; their difficulty in talking to the indigenous people, their respect for indigenous property, the suspicion of the indigenous people that whites were not really men but spirits of some sort and their anxiety to get the explorers out of their territory as quickly as possible. But the di…
Practical Ethics and Practical Learning
The emergence of sirhak (practical learning] thought is often portrayed as one of the more significant features of the intellectual history of the second half of the Chosŏn dynasty. Yet there is no consensus on exactly what “ sirhak ” means. Moreover, many of the criteria used to determine whether someone is a sirhak thinker or not appear to be too vague to actually tell us anything about the actual thought of the thinker under examination. Since…
The Korean God Is Not the Christian God
Syncretism
Making Majorities
North Koreans in Japan
Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis--successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and other ills. Yu Hyongwon (1622-1673, pen name, Pan'gye), a recluse scholar, responded to this time of chaos and uncertainty by writing his modestly titled…
Monks, Medicine, and Miracles
Throughout Korean history, religion has gained much of its appeal from the sense of control and the modicum of hope that it has been able to provide the afflicted. In early Korea, before Koryŏ times, any religion had to show that healing was one of its powers if it wished to be taken seriously as a religion. Early Korean, Chinese, and Japanese sources indicate that the role of monks in fighting illness and death were a factor in the spread of Bud…
The Architecture of Ideology
Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecti…
A Heritage of Kings
Earrings
The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea
Earrings
Religion and Ritual in Korean Society
The Architecture of Ideology
Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecti…
A Heritage of Kings
Monks, Medicine, and Miracles
Throughout Korean history, religion has gained much of its appeal from the sense of control and the modicum of hope that it has been able to provide the afflicted. In early Korea, before Koryŏ times, any religion had to show that healing was one of its powers if it wished to be taken seriously as a religion. Early Korean, Chinese, and Japanese sources indicate that the role of monks in fighting illness and death were a factor in the spread of Bud…
Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis--successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and other ills. Yu Hyongwon (1622-1673, pen name, Pan'gye), a recluse scholar, responded to this time of chaos and uncertainty by writing his modestly titled…
North Koreans in Japan
Making Majorities
Syncretism
The Korean God Is Not the Christian God
Practical Ethics and Practical Learning
The emergence of sirhak (practical learning] thought is often portrayed as one of the more significant features of the intellectual history of the second half of the Chosŏn dynasty. Yet there is no consensus on exactly what “ sirhak ” means. Moreover, many of the criteria used to determine whether someone is a sirhak thinker or not appear to be too vague to actually tell us anything about the actual thought of the thinker under examination. Since…
Asian Religions in British Columbia
British Columbia is Canada’s most ethnically diverse province. Although the presence of Asian religions is felt and discussed in many regions, we know little about the religions that accompanied immigrants from Asia or how they are practised today. Asian Religions in British Columbia brings together fourteen religious studies scholars who offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist orga…
John Piper, ‘Conqueror of the Interior’
The lesser known John Piper, usually referred to simply as Piper, the subject of this article, was an Aborigine who accompanied Thomas Mitchell on his 1836 expedition into Australia Felix. Very probably
Wanderers in Eden
A comparison of the exploring experiences of Australian explorer Thomas Mitchell with those of his American counterparts Lewis and Clark shows certain similarities; their difficulty in talking to the indigenous people, their respect for indigenous property, the suspicion of the indigenous people that whites were not really men but spirits of some sort and their anxiety to get the explorers out of their territory as quickly as possible. But the di…
Rhetoric, Ritual, and Political Legitimacy
Confucianism and Civilization
For most of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), Koreans ranked the countries and peoples in their neighborhood on a scale from civilized to barbarian, with the more Confucianized ranking higher than the less Confucianized. Using that scale, they put the Ryūkyū kingdom ahead of Japan, and Tshushima below both of them. Tasan Chŏng Yagyong (1762–1836) accepted both that equation of civilization with Confucianization and that ranking. However, he was imp…
Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea
A study of Korea’s first significant encounter with Western civilization, this work analyzes how Koreans reacted to Catholicism imported from China at the end of the 18 th century. It explores the reason most Koreans, especially Confucian scholars and government officials, reacted negatively to Catholic ideas and practices, going so far as to launch an official persecution of Catholics that cost thousands of lives. To render visible the philosoph…
Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea
Invented Traditions in North and South Korea
Creating the Sacred and the Secular in Colonial Korea
The thirty-five-year-long Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–1945) stimulated a significant transformation of the traditional Korean concept of religion, which in turn stimulated changes in the Korean understanding of the secular and the sacred. Traditional Korea lacked an explicit definition of religion. Under Japanese rule, Koreans absorbed the modern Japanese bureaucratic definition of religion, which also included a definition of what Japanes…
J uhn Y. A hn . Buddhas and Ancestors
The relationship between social change and religious change is an issue historians frequently wrestle with. Do changes in the dominant religion in a society stimulate changes in its social hierarchy, including who is ranked among the elite? Do alterations in a social hierarchy, bringing new faces to the fore, change which religious beliefs and practices are considered more prestigious and therefore bring about changes in the religious beliefs and…
Introducing Daesoon Philosophy to the West
Daesoon philosophy has been described as a quintessential Korean philosophy. Given the great difference between traditional Western and East Asian ways of thinking, how can such a quintessential Korean philosophy be explained to people who have no background in traditional East Asian thought? After all, the Daeson Jinrihoe way of approaching such core problems as how to make this world a better place is not only very different from the way the We…
A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral
An Influencer's World
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