This book offers a psychohistorical analysis of the rapid growth of the Korean Protestant Church. KwangYu Lee looks at some of the traumatic historical events of Korea in the 20th century, including the fall of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), the Japanese Occupation (1910-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), and the Korean Military Dictatorship (1961-1987), and explores the psychological impacts of these events on the collective unconsciousness of Koreans. He argues that Koreans' collective (or cultural) complex of inferiority, which was caused and gradually exacerbated by these traumatic events, along with their psychological relationships with their two colonizers-the Japanese and Americans-prompted them to convert to Korean Protestantism en masse as a means to avoid their psychological pains and to fulfil their futile desire to become like Americans, their overtly idealized psychological-object.

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KwangYu Lee is an ordained minister of the Korean Methodist Church. Currently he works for Korean Community Church of New Jersey and is a guest lecturer for the Pastoral Care and Counseling Program in Korean of Blanton-Peale Institute & Counseling Center.

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1. Introduction: The Korean Protestant Church at Present and the Necessity of a Psychohistorical Approach to Its History

   1.1 The Declining Korean Protestant Church
   1.1.1 The Korean Protestant Church's Individualism
   1.1.2 The Korean Protestant Church's Materialism
   1.1.3 The Korean Protestant Church's Exclusivism
   1.2 The Necessity of a Psychohistorical Approach to the History of the Korean Protestant Church
   1.3 Methodology: Jungian Psychohistory
   1.4 The Scope and Discussion of the Research
   References

2. : A Historical Sketch of the Growth of the Korean Protestant Church in the Twentieth Century 2.1 The Miraculous Growth of Korean Christianity
   2.1.1 The Fall of Joseon, Korea's Last Dynasty, and Christianity (18821910)
   2.1.2 The Japanese Colonial Era (19101945)
   2.1.3 Since the Liberation of 1945
   2.2 The Three Main Reasons for the Rapid Growth
   2.2.1 Protestantism: New Perspectives on Life
   2.2.2 Rapid Social Changes: A Seedbed for Evangelism
   2.2.3 Korean Protestantism: A Synthesis of Korean Shamanism and Western Protestantism
   2.3 The Miraculous Growth of the Korean Protestant Church: Gradual or Sudden?
   2.4 Conclusion
   References

3. : A Jungian Psychohistorical Theory: An Interpretive Tool
   3.1 Psychohistory: Its Origin and Evolution
   3.1.1 The Emergence of Psychohistory
   3.1.2 Erik H. Erikson and Young Man Luther
   3.1.3 Psychohistory: From Individuals to Groups
   3.2 Psychohistory's Strengths, Weaknesses, and Contributions to Historical Studies
   3.2.1 Freudian Psychology at the Heart of Psychohistory
   3.2.2 Psychohistory's Strengths: The Unconscious and a Psychotherapeutical Approach to History
   3.2.3 Psychohistory's Weaknesses: Psychologization, Reductionism, Arbitrariness, and Determinism
   3.2.4 Psychohistory's Contributions to Historical Studies
   3.3 Jung's Analytical Psychology: The Basics
   3.3.1 The Collective Unconscious
   3.3.2 Psychopathology
   3.3.3 Dreams and Archetypes
   3.3.4 Complex Theory
   3.4 A Jungian Psychohistory: Cultural (Collective) Complex
   3.4.1 The Cultural Unconscious
   3.4.2 Cultural (Collective) Complex
   3.4.3 Projection: The Central Element of Complex
   3.4.4 Two ...