Listing 1 - 3 of 3 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
K9500.90 --- K9509.90 --- Korea (North) --- -Korea: Politics -- history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Politics -- theory, methodology and philosophy -- North Korea --- Politics and government --- K9400.90 --- K9300.90 --- Korea: Economy and industry -- history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Social sciences -- social and cultural history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Politics -- history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Politics and government.
Choose an application
This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea's political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country's unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung's rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his successor, his eldest son, Kim Jong Il, sponsored the production of revolutionary art to unleash a public political culture that would consolidate Kim's charismatic power and his own hereditary authority. The result was the birth of a powerful modern theater state that sustains North K
Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Korea (North) --- Politics and government.
Choose an application
"Shared" sites, where members of distinct, or factionally opposed, religious communities interact-or fail to interact-is the focus of this volume. Chapters based on fieldwork from such diverse sites as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, and Vietnam demonstrate how sharing and tolerance are both more complex and multifaceted than they are often recognized to be. By including both historical processes (the development of Chinese funerals in late imperial Beijing or the refashioning of memorial commemoration in the wake of the Vietnam war) and particular events (the visit of Pope John Paul II to shared shrines in Sri Lanka or the Al-Qaeda bombing of an ancient Jewish synagogue on the Island of Djerba in Tunisia), the volume demonstrates the importance of understanding the wider contexts within which social interactions take place and shows that tolerance and intercommunalism are simultaneously possible and perpetually under threat.
Religions --- Sacred space. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Relations. --- Pilgrimages and pilgrims --- Processions, Religious --- Travelers --- Voyages and travels --- Shrines --- Spiritual tourism --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Interreligious relations --- Relations among religions --- Religions - Relations.
Listing 1 - 3 of 3 |
Sort by
|