Irreligion_in_North_Korea

Irreligion in North Korea

Irreligion in North Korea

Add article description

Irreligion in North Korea is difficult to measure in the country as the country is officially designated as an atheist state.[1] The North Korean state persecutes those who stray from the official state-sponsored atheism and the personality cult promoted by the Juche idea.[2] North Koreans, by Western definitions, would be considered non-religious but Buddhist and Confucian traditions still play a part in North Korean life.[11]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Countries and Territories of the World". Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  2. [2]
    "My Take: Kim Jong Il and the danger of deifying leaders". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  3. [3]
    Bullivant, Stephen; Ruse, Michael (November 2013). The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199644650. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. [4]
    "A tale of two absurdities: the ridiculous policies of North Korea and Turkmenistan". The Nation. 9 February 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  5. [5]
    "Conservative atheists not rare in South Korea?". Gene Expression. 2012-12-18. Archived from the original on 2018-01-26. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  6. [6]
    Alex Buchan (January 2003). "Inside the Dungeon of Atheism". Charisma Magazine. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  7. [7]
    "Varieties of atheism". The Economist. 2015-08-30. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  8. [8]
    "Kim Jong-il was a Lefty atheist in the same way that Hitler was a conservative Catholic". News - Telegraph Blogs. Archived from the original on 19 December 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  9. [9]
    "From Kim to Christ: Why religion works for North Koreans". 2013-09-25. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  10. [10]
    Ricker, George A. (October 2007). Mere Atheism. iUniverse. ISBN 9780595475063. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  11. [11]
    [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]


Stub icon

This North Korea-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article related to atheism is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Irreligion_in_North_Korea, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.