The Journal of Korean Religions (JKR) would like to announce the April 2015 publication of Volume 6, Number 1, "Pure Land Buddhism in Korea."



This issue, guest edited by Richard McBride, is the first of its kind in English to focus on Pure Land teaching and practice in Korea. It also features the first in a series titled "Religious Thinkers of Modern Korea", edited by Jin Park and Timothy Lee, on ten great figures of Korean Buddhism and Christianity.



Articles :

The Cult of the Pure Land of Maitreya in Paekche and Silla in the Three Kingdoms Period

by CHOI Yeonshik (Dongguk University)



The Pure Land of the One Mind in Wŏnhyo’s Thought

by KIM JongWook (Dongguk University)



The Cult of the Hwaŏm Pure Land of the Koryŏ Period as seen through Self-Power and Other-Power

by KIM Cheon-hak (Dongguk University)



Koryŏ Buddhist Paintings and the Cult of Amitābha: Visions of a Hwaŏm-Inspired Pure Land

by Richard D. McBRIDE II (Brigham Young University - Hawai'i)



The Establishment of the Approach of Chanting Amitābha’s Name and the Proliferation of Pure Land Buddhism in Late Chosŏn

by KIM Yongtae (Dongguk University)



The Otherworldly Counter-Discourse of Yŏmbul pogwŏnmun: An Eighteenth-century Pure Land Text

by Boudewijn WALRAVEN (Leiden University)



Special Series: Religious Thinkers of Modern Korea

Series Introduction

by Timothy S. LEE (Brite Divinity School) and Jin Y. PARK (American University)



The Christian Spirituality of Cardinal Sou-hwan Kim: Contextualized and Interpreted

by Pyong-Gwan PAK (Sogang University)



Research Article

French Catholic Spirituality and the Nineteenth-century Korean Church

by Andrew J. FINCH



Book Reviews

Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun. Kim Iryŏp, trans. Jin Y. Park.

Reviewed by Mark A. NATHAN (University of Buffalo)



Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer. Young Kyun Oh.

Reviewed by Gregory N. EVON (University of New South Wales)



Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way. Carl Young.

Reviewed by Paul BEIRNE (Yarra Theological Union)



A History of Korean Christianity. Sebastian C.H. Kim and Kirsteen Kim.

Reviewed by Sean C. KIM (University of Central Missouri)



Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea. Nicholas Harkness.

Reviewed by Kyung-Nan KOH (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)



Our next issue, Vol. 6 No. 2, October 2015, will be a theme issue on “Religion, War, and Peace in Korea.”



We also want to inform scholars from all disciplines about our continuing call for papers on all topics pertaining to Korean religion. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to the Managing Editor: journalkr@sogang.ac.kr

Style guidelines can be found here: http://bit.ly/JKRsubguide



For more information about the Journal of Korean Religions, please see our journal's website: http://jkr.sogang.ac.kr/

You can also find us digitally on Project Muse, JSTOR, and the Thomson Reuters A&HCI.



Best wishes,

Kim Seong-nae

Don Baker

Editors-in-Chief, Journal of Korean Religions