RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church, Syncretism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Lisa M.Blake, Jingjing Li

Document Summary

** lecture notes for monday, feb 19 and friday, feb 26 (wednesday"s lecture was. American protestant missionaries the christian family : mary f. scranton, ewha haktang 1886 the connection of christian mission schools and women"s education. A: at the time, in america, the role of women was very domestic, being the good wife and a wise mother. However, women were independently moving from korea to. America: us, korea, japan: women were associate with the home, the home is a confucianist. State: there were female superstitions that were campaigned against, women till today are active in the evangelical church: Korean but international after the war: there was a greater exposure to western media after the war as people began to watch. American television and have access to american news. Syncretism: combining of different, often contradictory beliefs while blending practices of some believed it was a cult while others agreed it was a true religion various schools of thought.