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A Critical Study on the Role of Cooperativism in the Religious-Based Civil Ecological Movement: Focusing on the Catholic Church of Korea

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2022, (40), pp.93~111
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2022..40.005
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 28, 2022
  • Accepted : November 30, 2022
  • Published : November 30, 2022

Yoo Kwang Suk 1

1경희대학교 종교시민문화연구소

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ABSTRACT

In a modern civil society facing a climate ecological crisis, religion is drawing attention again from academia and the state as a major social entity that will provide ecological citizenship that can function as an ethos for the coming ecological civil society. These social expectations are being developed in various ways in religious-based life community movements, and representatively, the Catholic Church of Korea has led Korea's life community movements by utilizing cooperativism actively. Focusing on the affinity of Korean Catholicism and cooperativism, the paper examines why and how religions could contribute to the development of cooperativism and labor unionism in Korea, and explains the relationship between the Korean Association of Catholic Farmers and rapid development of cooperatives as a major example. Conclusively, this paper is trying to critically reflect on some essential characteristics of cooperativism which presupposes different activities and purposes of religious relief, and further the issue of ecological inequality.

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