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Religious Healing in the Individual and Collective Spheres: Based on Harold Koenig's Argument and the Experience of Reverend Choi Jasil

  • Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
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  • 2018, (60), pp.5-20
  • DOI : 10.17939/hushss.2018..60.001
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : June 25, 2018
  • Accepted : August 1, 2018
  • Published : August 31, 2018

Chae, Byung Kwan 1 Hwang NaRi 2

1숭실대학교
2서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article deals with how religion can relate to healing. This article explores whether religious healing provides any substantive change and recovery in the collective sphere as well as in the individual sphere. This means that religious healing has a positive effect on individual healing and provides "solidarity" of the community. To this end, based primarily on Harold Koenig's idea and argument, this article sheds light on the relationship between personal healing and religion. Likewise, in order to highlight the collective areas of religious healing, it focuses on the case of Rev. Choi, Jasil of the Pentecostal Church, who was very active in religious healing. In so doing, one can see that religion still influences personal healing in modern society, and it serves to strengthen social solidarity through group healing in the collective area. In other words, this article will help readers to ascertain the relationship between religion and healing at the individual and group level.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.