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Religious Reflection on Unification: Recovery of Homogeneity

  • Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
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  • 2017, (55), pp.51-69
  • DOI : 10.17939/hushss.2017..55.003
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : April 1, 2017
  • Accepted : May 22, 2017
  • Published : May 31, 2017

Park, Junghwan 1

1호남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This thesis focuses on the reflection on unification which is seen from the religious perspective. The paper emphasized that Koreans were homogeneous before division and that unification of the Korean peninsula should prepare for unification under the assumption that this homogeneity can be regained again. It is the main argument of this essay to examine the spirituality and religiosity shared by Koreans and restore this spirituality. The Koreans had a mysterious Tao(道) that included three religion -confucianism, buddhism, taoism- before the entrance of the three religion. This article examines how homogeneity that Koreans have in common changes in the South and the North. This homogeneity based on Han-thought has been transformed into a different form in the divided North and South. While it evolved in the form of Juche Ideology(주체사상) in North Korea, in South Korea it has progressed in the form of prosperity of Christianity. I have shown that the divided North and South identities can eventually be brought together again. The main objective of this paper in preparing for unification is to contribute to the unification of the subjects of the two Koreas by restoring the homogeneity that the Koreans had before the division.

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