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The Theory of Religious Social Movement in Gaebyeok and ‘Japanese Philosophy of Religion’

HurSoo 1

1한림대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the 1920s, the young people of Cheondogyo published in the periodof ‘cultural politics’ the first issue of Gaebyeok (meaning ‘the dawn of theworld’) to realize their purpose of ‘religious social remodeling.’Gaebyeok was divided into three areas; ‘enlightenment,’ ‘communication,’and ‘general public.’ Its leading members carried articles about modernWestern thoughts and the doctrine of ‘in-naecheon’ (the equality of humanrights) in the ‘communication’ part. And in ‘enlightenment,’ they spreadnot only both an idea of the world as the relation of ‘mutual identity’ anda practical plan of ‘activist ethics’, but also put out the ‘doctrine of humannature’ (saramsŏng chuui; 사람性主義), ‘pan-humanistic nationalism’ (汎人間的 民族主義), and the ‘doctrine of Jeokja’(赤子主義). In this process, the theory of ‘phenomenon viz reality’ (現象卽實在論)played a important role, but its presence gradually faded down thereafter. The Japanese theory played a role as a vehicle which helped combine thedifferent two strata forming the unity of Gaebyeok, religion and society,and then disappeared.

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