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Apr 2015
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Albert L. Park, “Building a Heaven on Ea...

Marshall Poe
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Christians, like other religious people, have to manage the relationship between their belief in supernatural forces and an afterlife on one side, and how those beliefs impact their daily life on the other. This was especially difficult for Korean Protestant Christians (and members of an indigenous religion influenced by Christianity...

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