2011년-2024년의 한국 여성신학의 전개에 대한 연구 : 한국여신학자협의회를 중심으로

Abstract

This study analyzes how Korean feminist theology has developed from 2011 to 2024 through periodicals and materials of the Korean Association of Women Theologians(hereafter, KAWT). In this period, as neo-liberalism has spread in Korean society, winning and surviving in a fierce competition for jobs have become the foremost thing for women. Thus, young women without much money and spare time have not been involved in feminist theology activities. Around the presidential election in 2022, a conservative political party has tried to abolish the ministry of women and family and it has had negative influences on feminist theology. As credibility of civil organizations and civil movement has decreased since 2004, this has also affected KAWT negatively. As a result, feminist theology has been weakened. In this context, KAWT member women have experienced conflicts and divisions deriving from gaps between ages, social status and power. Nonetheless, KAWT has continuously attempted to improve gender equality and this is clearly shown in the Journal of Korean Feminist Theology. In the corner of <Special issue>, it has been argued that Christian women should overcome war and hostility, pursue and realize peaceful reunification with interests and sympathy for compatriots, criticize and get over socio-economic polarization, and live together with God’s created world. In the corner of <Reunification of Korean peninsula>, women pointed out that subjects, discourses and grassroots activities regarding reunification theology and movement fall short of those in the previous generations. Further, women criticized that political hatred has been added to severe competition and anxiety caused by neoliberalism. Lastly, women asserted that patriarchalism, militarism should be overcome. In the corner of <My story>, it was shown that Christian women find themselves through their own life stories and are born as subjects of growing, creating and negotiating. I argued that feminist theology should acknowledge and respect differences among women and aim at analyzing gender relations in the multi-layered, complex ruling system including neoliberalist capitalism, state, sex, class, race and culture and overcoming any discrimination and oppression caused by that ruling system.