Abstract:This article investigates the role of weekly religious newspapers in the late nineteenth-century Korean Protestant community. I initiate the study by exploring the historical backdrop of The Korean Christian Advocate and The Christian News, early Christian newspapers in Korea published by Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries, respectively, from the United States. The article then analyzes the role these newspapers played in defining and developing the identity of the early Protestant community in Korea. I pay attention to the active participation in these newspapers by their readers, namely, examining their readership's contributions to the papers. Finally, I argue that the new medium of newspapers played a pivotal role in initiating a new religious community. The early Korean Protestant Christians envisioned their own religious community and way of life through the mediated publicness provided by newspapers. The newspaper opened up an imaginative space in which members of the community were allowed to imagine the telepresence of a religious community, offering them a new religious habitus and experience.

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报纸在韩国早期新教社区中的作用：对韩国基督教倡导者和基督教新闻的分析

摘要：本文调查了宗教周刊在 19 世纪晚期韩国新教社区中的作用。我通过探索分别由美国卫理公会和长老会传教士在韩国出版的早期基督教报纸《韩国基督教倡导者》和《基督教新闻》的历史背景来启动这项研究。然后，文章分析了这些报纸在定义和发展韩国早期新教社区身份方面所扮演的角色。我关注读者对这些报纸的积极参与，即检查他们的读者对报纸的贡献。最后，我认为报纸的新媒体在开创一个新的宗教社区方面发挥了关键作用。早期的韩国新教基督徒通过报纸提供的媒介公开来设想他们自己的宗教社区和生活方式。报纸开辟了一个想象空间，让社区成员可以想象宗教社区的远程呈现，为他们提供新的宗教习惯和体验。