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 The Heartless (Mujŏng, 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 that the problem of hell in Christian...

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Authors: Kwak, Chun-hyŏk (Author) ; Huang, Mengxiao (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: Religions
Year: 2025, Volume: 16, Issue: 1
Further subjects:B theodicy of hell
B Lu Xun
B Confucianism
B Christianity
B Yi Kwangsu
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