Preliminary Material / Jahyun Kim Haboush and Martina Deuchler -- Introduction / Private Academies and the State in Late Chasŏn Korea / Yŏng-Ho Ch'oe -- Constructing the Center: The Ritual Controversy and the Search for a New Identity in Seventeenth-Century Korea / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Despoilers of the Way-Insulters of the Sages: Controversies over the Classics in Seventeenth-Century Korea / Martina Deuchler -- Buddhism Under Confucian Domination: The Synthetic Vision of Sŏsan Hyujŏng / Robert E. Buswell Jr. -- Popular Religion in a Confucianized Society / Boudewijn Walraven -- A Different Thread: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Catholicism in a Confucian World / Don Baker -- Notes / Glossary / Index / Harvard East Asian Monographs / Jahyun Kim Haboush and Martina Deuchler