@article{ART003240336},
author={Jongkyunn Park},
title={The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches},
journal={The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics},
issn={1229-8387},
year={2025},
number={62},
pages={83-118}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jongkyunn Park
TI - The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches
JO - The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 62
PB - The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
SP - 83
EP - 118
SN - 1229-8387
AB - This study argues that the fanatical Protestant fascism displayed in the recent “December 3rd the President’s coup” was by no means an accidental event, but rather based on solid historical origins and grounding. Christian fascism combines the political characteristics shared by fascist movements with Christian fundamentalism and the sacralization of capitalism. Fascism in the United States and South Korea, which rely heavily on Christian fundamentalism as a foundation of support, not only shares the Christian fundamentalist belief that norms, feasible only in a theocratic state, should be applied to all areas of human life, but also adheres to an irrational and anti-intellectual attitude bordering on delusion that these rules should be implemented in the public sphere. This paper examines the genealogy of religious fascism, tracing its roots from the current far-right fascist Protestantism in Korea, starting with its fundamental affinity with the dictatorial fascist regimes that protected Protestantism, going back further to the anti-intellectualism of American evangelicalism and fundamentalism, the mother of Korean Protestantism, going back even further to the religious reform movement that gave birth to Protestantism, and even more fundamentally, to the point when Christianity became the Christianity of the Roman Empire.
KW - christian fascism;christian fundamentalism;evangelism;anti-intellectualism;democracy;fake-news;disinformation
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Jongkyunn Park. (2025). The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 62, 83-118.
Jongkyunn Park. 2025, "The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches", The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, no.62, pp.83-118.
Jongkyunn Park "The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 62 pp.83-118 (2025) : 83.
Jongkyunn Park. The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches. 2025; 62 : 83-118.
Jongkyunn Park. "The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.62(2025) : 83-118.
Jongkyunn Park. The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 62, 83-118.
Jongkyunn Park. The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics. 2025; 62 83-118.
Jongkyunn Park. The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches. 2025; 62 : 83-118.
Jongkyunn Park. "The Specter of Far-Right Fascism Haunts Korean Protestant Churches" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.62(2025) : 83-118.
