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HIST 288: Religious and Cultural History of Modern Korea (HC)

History 288: Religious and Cultural History of Modern Korea (Shin) Spring 2021

Christianity in Korea

             

       Four Korean preachers, circa 1908-1922 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) More information on flickr or the Korean Digital Archive

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Haverford College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Swarthmore College  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

        korea* AND religion AND history  [Keyword search]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

        korea*  [Keyword]  AND (religion OR buddhis* OR christian* OR confuci*) AND (19th OR 20th) [Subjects]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

        korea* [Subject] AND (politic*) AND (religio* OR buddhis* OR christian* OR shaman* OR confuci*) [Keywords] NOT americans [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

        korea* AND (tonghak OR Ch'Ŏndogyo OR  (Ch'oe AND Che-u))  [Keywords]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your subject interest.

Beyond the Tri-College Collections

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million title records owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.