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Jung Eun Jang’s Religious Experience and Self-Psychology seeks to contribute to our understanding of the 1907 Korean Revival Movement that took place in Pyongyang, by applying to the movement self psychology, developed by Heinz Kohut. While the effort is laudable, it is compromised by an inexpert application of Kohut’s theory and a maladroit treatment of Korean history.
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Neither Kalton’s nor Deuchler’s book is listed in Jang’s bibliography.
This phrase is the title of a section in Chapter 3, “The Korean Group Self and the Joseon Dynasty,” 68.
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Lee, T.S. Review of Religious Experience and Self-Psychology: Korean Christianity and the 1907 Revival Movement (New York, NY: Palgrave, 2016) by Jung Eun Jang. Pastoral Psychol 67, 563–567 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-018-0801-9
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