Class Disparity and Prosperity Gospel in Korea after the IMF Crisis
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The church has always been irresolute concerning the spiritualvalue of material wealth. Usually taking the moral high ground, thechurch has been renouncing excessive wealth in favor of a modestand sacrificial lifestyle. Considering the historical shift fromaristocracy to meritocracy which endowed money a new moralquality in the West, we can see that South Korea has been goingthrough a similar transformation with 1) the close bond betweenneo-Pentecostalism and the prosperity gospel and 2) the rise ofmeritocracy alongside the nation's 'compressed' modernization. Thisstudy endeavors to find further evidence of this transformation withreference to Reverend Dong-Ho Kim's 'righteous riches.' ReverendKim's conservative view on the poor and the rich is not a newperspective but only a Korean version of American prosperitygospel without a keen consciousness on social justice. Thepopularity of Reverend Kim's teachings among the middle classshows that the 'status quo' ideology on social inequality is in factlargely derived from Korean Protestantism which has a legacy ofAmerican Biblical literalism.
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The church has always been irresolute concerning the spiritualvalue of material wealth. Usually taking the moral high ground, thechurch has been renouncing excessive wealth in favor of a modestand sacrificial lifestyle. Considering the historical shift fromaristocracy to meritocracy which endowed money a new moralquality in the West, we can see that South Korea has been goingthrough a similar transformation with 1) the close bond betweenneo-Pentecostalism and the prosperity gospel and 2) the rise ofmeritocracy alongside the nation's 'compressed' modernization. Thisstudy endeavors to find further evidence of this transformation withreference to Reverend Dong-Ho Kim's 'righteous riches.' ReverendKim's conservative view on the poor and the rich is not a newperspective but only a Korean version of American prosperitygospel without a keen consciousness on social justice. Thepopularity of Reverend Kim's teachings among the middle classshows that the 'status quo' ideology on social inequality is in factlargely derived from Korean Protestantism which has a legacy ofAmerican Biblical literalism.
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