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Cheondoism
In the heart of nineteenth-century Korea, a new movement began to stir among villages caught between crumbling tradition and the shock of foreign powers. What began as whisper and rumor would soon erupt into revolution—and leave a mark on Korean spiritual life that endures to this day.Imagine Korea in the eighteen-fifties: a Confucian agrarian kingdom facing mounting troubles. Local corruption, rising taxes, and the approach of Western ideas all threaten the old order. In this tense climate, a man named Choe Je-u, born in eighteen twenty-four, emerges not as a court official or foreign…
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