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Religious Spirituality’s Role of Social Healing

Park, Kwang - Soo 1

1원광대학교

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Today, religious spirituality's role in healing society diagnoses the historical scars and pathological phenomena inherent in Korean society and the international community and aims for fundamental healing. To this end, transition to a correct perception of social structure and civilization and reflection on new religions are necessary. First, to solve the historical scars from division, inter-class and inter-regional conflicts in Korean society and human society, we need to transition from a power-centered civilization to a new harmonious civilization shared between the East and the West. Amid the division in the international community and the formation of a democratic state, various forms of "trauma by state violence" based on mutual hostility are internalized throughout society. We need a discourse on the religious spirituality of social healing that has the resources for concrete practices to overcome these traumas. Second, we need to discuss how to realize the value of universal publicity for religious spirituality's social healing. A mature civil society's religious spirituality believes in an absolute God and has an open-minded attitude that cares for and respects neighbors. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting society as a whole and the religious landscape and collective forms of faith. How can religious spirituality provide the fundamental energy to realize social and public values and heal the various problems of a sick society? Religion plays the role of healing a sick society by constantly reflecting on individuals and society, criticizing structural injustice, and directly engaging with society. The social practice of religion is a discourse necessary in any age. In the era of civilizational transition, peaceful and ideal society is possible in the practice of unifying public values and an open religious culture related to the spirit of global citizenship, such as post-ethnicism, post-nationalism, and post-religion. Modern society calls for a proactive life that realizes the spiritual value of peaceful civilization aiming for a world of harmony beyond civilizational conflict.

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