Donghak, a Deep Ecology of Reverence

March 8, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies

The Center for Korean Studies spring 2018 colloquium series will feature a discussion of the Donghak religious and philosophical movement by Dr. Jea Sophia Oh, assistant professor of philosophy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Donghak, or Eastern Learning أ¦آ‌آ±أ¥آ­آ¸, was influenced by three major East Asian philosophies (Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism) as well as by Christianity. The result was a religious-cultural hybridization with unique Korean life-centered cosmology that reveres life and creation.

Professor Oh's presentation will deal with the Korean concept hanul, the divine, in Donghak, comparing it with the Whiteheadian God of becoming via a complimentary way of comparative ecotheology.


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Center for Korean Studies, Mānoa Campus

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Merclyn Labuguen, (808) 956-7041, merclyn@hawaii.edu,

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