Displacing the Christian Theodicy of Hell: Yi Kwangsu’s Search for the Willful Individual in Colonial Modernity

This article aims to offer Yi Kwangsu’s <i>The Heartless</i> (<i>Mujŏng</i>, 1917), the first modern Korean novel, as an emblem of hybrid religiosity in colonial modernity that sheds light on an ambivalent alterity in the problem of hell in non-Western cultures. To the extent...

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Main Authors: Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Mengxiao Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-01-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/1/78
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