This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong ) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of emotions West and East, emotions in the Chinese and Buddhist traditions, and Korean perspectives. Chapters 2 to 5 of part I discuss key Korean Confucian thinkers, debates, and ideas. Chapters 6 to 8 of part II offer comparative thoughts from Confucian moral, political, and social angles. Chapters 9 to 12 of part III deal with contemporary Buddhist and eco-feminist perspectives. The concluding chapter discusses ground-breaking insights into the diversity, dynamics, and distinctiveness of Korean emotions. This is an open access book.

Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures, edited by Joseph E. Harroff and Jea Sophia Oh, provides many unique experiments in thinking through the implications of ecstatic naturalism. This collection of essays directly addresses the importance of values sustaining cultures of healing and offers a variety of perspectives inducing radical hope requisite for cultivating moral and political imaginings of democracy-to-come as a regulative ideal. Through its invocation of "healing cultures," the collection foregrounds the significance of the active, gerundive, and processual nature of ecstatic naturalism as a creative horizon for realizing values of intersubjective flourishing, while also highlighting the significance of culture as an always unfinished project of making discursive, interpretive and ethical space open for the subaltern and voiceless. Each contribution gives voice to the tensions and contradictions felt by living participants in emergent communities of interpretation-namely those who risk replacing authoritarian tendencies and fascist prejudices with a faith in future-oriented archetypes of healing to make possible truth and reconciliation between oppressor and oppressed, victimizers and victims of violence and trauma. These essays then let loose the radical hope of healing from suffering in a ceaseless community of communication within a horizon of creative democratic interpretation.

What does it mean for nature to be sacred? Is anything supernatural or even unnatural? Nature's Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism discusses nature's divinizing process of unfolding and folding through East-West dialogues and interdisciplinary methodologies. Nature's selving/god-ing processes are the sacred that is revealed as nature's transcendent and immanent dimensions. Each chapter of Nature's Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism shares a part of nature's sacred folds that are complexes within nature that have unusual semiotic density. These discussions serve to help restore a better relationship to nature as a whole through an innovative combination of research and ideas from a variety of traditions and disciplines. This collection not only introduces ecstatic naturalism and deep pantheism as sacred practices of philosophy and theology, but also invites a broader audience from a wide range of academic disciplines such as neuro-psychoanalysis, aesthetics, mythology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI).

A Philosophy of Sacred Nature introduces Robert Corrington's philosophical thought, "ecstatic naturalism," which seeks to recognize nature's self-transforming potential. Ecstatic naturalism is a philosophical-theological perspective, deeply seated in a semiotic cosmology and psychosemiosis, and it radically and profoundly probes into the mystery of nature's perennial self-fissuring of nature natured and nature naturing. Edited by Leon Niemoczynski and Nam T. Nguyen, this collection aims to allow readers to see what can be done with ecstatic naturalism, and what directions, interpretations, and creative uses that doing can take. A thorough exploration of the prospects of ecstatic naturalism, this book will appeal to scholars of Continental philosophy, religious naturalism, and American pragmatism.

This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong ) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of emotions West and East, emotions in the Chinese and Buddhist traditions, and Korean perspectives. Chapters 2 to 5 of part I discuss key Korean Confucian thinkers, debates, and ideas. Chapters 6 to 8 of part II offer comparative thoughts from Confucian moral, political, and social angles. Chapters 9 to 12 of part III deal with contemporary Buddhist and eco-feminist perspectives. The concluding chapter discusses ground-breaking insights into the diversity, dynamics, and distinctiveness of Korean emotions. This is an open access book.

We have here nothing less than a theology of life-life in the intensity of its postcolonial ecology, rippling through the creaturely interconnections of our planetary process, yet at the same time grounded in the beautiful local metaphors of an Asian counter-history. Jea Sophia Oh's luminous book is a must-read for all who care about the global socio-ecology, about process theology, about eco-femnism, about comparative theology-singly and together. -Catherine Keller, author of On the Mystery and Face of the Deep This exciting book begs classification as a second-generation exercise in postcolonial theology. It exceeds first-generation exercises in the sheer audacity of its eclecticism. Postcolonial theology fuses with ecotheology, and that amalgam combines in turn with comparative theology, transnational feminism, and contextual theology. It's enough to make one believe that theology may have a future after all in the twenty-first century. -Stephen D. Moore, author of Empire and Apocalypse and co-editor of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology Jea Sophia Oh promises and delivers a book on a multifaceted ethics that is a timely addition to the genre because it opens a scholarly space for rethinking an appropriate relationship among all living things. She bridges postcolonialism and ecotheology with the use of Salim as the philosophical underpinning for the argument that all forms of life are equal and divine. As we look at the physical and spiritual suffering and degradation caused by oppression of those that we deem to be subaltern, we say a resounding YES to the message of Hanul -becoming together. There is a poetic quality to the book which, like all poetry must be read carefully and thoughtfully. The reader will find that it is well worth the effort. -Melodie M. Toby, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Kean University This book is a great introduction to eco-religious becoming and a great work of comparative theology in the context of Korean religious life. It will definitely introduce many readers to such concepts/terms as Donghak, salim, bab, hanul, and teum, which are not only contextually relevant for Korean theology but conceptually heavy-lifting in terms of "postcolonial eco-theology." Such a post-colonial hybrid ecotheology calls out for what the author describes as an ecocracy in place of the andro/anthropocentric notion of democracy and "globalization as usual." -Whitney A. Bauman, author of Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics: From Creatio ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius