Article ID: CBB997530875

Science, State, and Spirituality: Stories of Four Creationists in South Korea (2018)

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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.”

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Authors & Contributors
Roberts, Michael B.
Numbers, Ronald L.
Delli, Eudoxie
Morgan, David
Simone Morandini
Howell, Christopher
Concepts
Science and religion
Creationism
Christianity
Evolution
Intelligent design (teleology)
Science and government
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Medieval
7th century
Places
United States
South Korea
St. Petersburg (Russia)
Byzantium
Netherlands
Russia
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