A popular teaching that combined elements of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, folk beliefs, and Catholicism, Tonghak (Eastern Learning) is best known for its involvement in a rebellion that touched off the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) and accelerated Japanese involvement in Korea. Through a careful reading of sources--including religious works and biographies many of which are translated and annotated here into English for the first time--Salvation through Dissent traces Tonghak's rise amidst the debates over orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Choson Korea (1392-1910) and its impact on religious...