@article{ART002931851},
author={Iljoon Park},
title={Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion},
journal={Religions of Korea},
issn={1738-3617},
year={2023},
volume={54},
pages={37-73},
doi={10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37}
TY - JOUR
AU - Iljoon Park
TI - Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion
JO - Religions of Korea
PY - 2023
VL - 54
IS - null
PB - The Research Center of Religions
SP - 37
EP - 73
SN - 1738-3617
AB - This article is to construct Northeast Asia not as a geological or geopolitical concept but as an social imagery for peace. As we have experienced, the current international politics has failed to find alternatives relevant to the global crises such as the climate crisis, ecological disasters, the pandemic, and so on. One of the main reasons for this failure lies in the fact that nation-state is set up for the agential subject of this international politics. Every nation-state as the subject of the international politics compete each other for their own national interests, and it is thus nearly impossible to talk about the symbiosis or sympoiesis of the planetary community. In such actuality of the international politics, Northeast Asian Community does not refer to any exclusivistic community of Northeast Asians only but rater to a planetary community network, in which they seeks to be agencies of cooperation and solidarity beyond the boundaries and walls of nation-states in Northeast Asia. It is not to deny the actualities of nationa-state in this region but to construct a new model of international politics to include nonhuman agencies as political subjects beyond the anthropocentric notion of human political subject in our common effort to overcome or stay with the global crises such as the climate change and ecological disasters. The bottom line of this way of thinking is our common recognition of religious imagination like com/passion without the trap of oblivion to forget the horrible memories and traumas of pain, suffering, and oppression in our pasts. Thus, in order to construct Northeast Asian Community as common social imagery to come, this paper argues that the Northeast Asia region entangled with their painful historical traumas in their modern colonial times needs some help from religious imaginations. for religion is the source of power for healing and reconciliation, only with the condition that the term ‘religion’ here refers to the concept of the religious, not to any institutionalized form of religion.
KW - Northeast Asia;Social Imagery;Religion;The Way for Caring and Understanding(絜矩之道);Recognitional Community;The Social;Human Rights for Peace;the Northeast Asian Community.
DO - 10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
ER -
Iljoon Park. (2023). Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion. Religions of Korea, 54, 37-73.
Iljoon Park. 2023, "Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion", Religions of Korea, vol.54, pp.37-73. Available from: doi:10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
Iljoon Park "Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion" Religions of Korea 54 pp.37-73 (2023) : 37.
Iljoon Park. Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion. 2023; 54 37-73. Available from: doi:10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
Iljoon Park. "Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion" Religions of Korea 54(2023) : 37-73.doi: 10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
Iljoon Park. Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion. Religions of Korea, 54, 37-73. doi: 10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
Iljoon Park. Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion. Religions of Korea. 2023; 54 37-73. doi: 10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
Iljoon Park. Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion. 2023; 54 37-73. Available from: doi:10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
Iljoon Park. "Northeast Asia as the Social Imagery and Religion" Religions of Korea 54(2023) : 37-73.doi: 10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.37
