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The Other Side of their Zeal

Cho, Min-Ah
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Cho, Min-Ah
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anticommunism
Christian fundamentalism
Evangelical nationalism
GLBTQ movement in Korea
homophobia
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Gender and Theology
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/4075546
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Abstract
AbstractThis article tracks the harsh reality of homophobia in Korea, focusing on the homophobic rhetoric of Korean Christian fundamentalists. I suggest that the fundamentalists’ homophobic rhetoric can be looked at in line with their attempt to build up their bases of support. Facing the loss of their privileged social status in Korea, the fundamentalists have been seeking out a secure road through which they can survive and regain their influence. What they have found was, in addition to literal belief in the Bible, a political alliance with greater powers, namely, Korean right-wing politics and american Christian fundamentalism. Korean fundamentalists’ homophobic rhetoric reveals a crack through which we can observe how they have served as resident ministers of american Christian fundamentalists’ imperialistic vision of the world. This vision couples with the US government’s military deployments and its projects for global domination—whether it is to be proved as an unqualified failure or not.
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2011-09-01
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TANDF-10.1179/tas.17.3.xx56t21243207121
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/tas.17.3.xx56t21243207121
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/tas.17.3.xx56t21243207121
ISSN-PRINT-1355-8358
ISSN-ELECT-1745-5170
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10.1179/tas.17.3.xx56t21243207121
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© 2011 Taylor & Francis
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