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- Title
Vacillating between the Cold War and the Culture War: The Contemporary Predicament of the Korean Evangelical Right.
- Authors
Myung-Sahm SUH
- Abstract
Since the early 21st century, conservative evangelicals in South Korea have actively engaged in contentious politics, playing a central role in organizing the right-wing social movement in civil society. At first, such politicized evangelicals, who may be dubbed as the Korean version of the Evangelical Right, conjured up the old specter of the Korean War and stood against those who, in their minds, went against the Cold War dogmata of anticommunism and pro-Americanism. Over the last two decades, however, the Korean Evangelical Right has expanded its battle line to confront other types of perceived enemies on the Culture War front, especially Islam and LGBTQ persons. By tracing the genealogy of their social movement, this paper explores the ways in which the Korean Evangelical Right finds itself in the predicament of wavering between the geopolitics of the Cold War and the global politics of the Culture War, insofar as these two wars operate on different sets of the friend-foe distinctions.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; CHRISTIAN conservatism; CULTURE conflict; COLD War, 1945-1991; SOCIAL movements; POLITICS &; culture; KOREAN War, 1950-1953
- Publication
Korea Journal, 2021, Vol 61, Issue 4, p102
- ISSN
0023-3900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25024/kj.2021.61.4.102