대만 신종교의 문화콘텐츠 고찰 -자제기금회, 유심성교 그리고 일관도의 문화사업을 중심으로

Abstract

Official use of the word ‘Cultural Contents’ (referring to creative works as a whole in use as digital content) in Korean society is a fairly recent development. ‘Cultural Contents of Religions’ became especially necessary in the field of research on cultural contents today. Furthermore the cultural contents of new religions also need more interest and various research. Encouraged by the results of research in Korean new religious cultural contents, we tried to expand the research area of cultural contents into foreign countries and collect several of their cases. In this paper we will focus on several Taiwanese new religions and introduce their social works in addition to their cultural works constituting their cultural contents. The main cases are Tzuchi, Weixin and Ikuandao. The content will be composed of current prominent records of these new religions in Taiwanese society. In the case of Tzuchi, they are accumulating cultural contents since they have expanded their relief works. They distinguish themselves in the fields of charitable humanity, medical humanity, and educational humanity. Weixin is trying to manifest human nature in truth, goodness, and beauty through taking a serious involvement in art and literature besides religious works. They accumulate cultural contents through the works of Weixin’s own broadcasting organization, publications, Institute of Culture, choral groups, Yijing college. IKuan-Dao cultural contents have been created based on various social works. Further, various media contents accompanying the development of a contemporary IT civilization have been produced. There are also many bookstores that specialize in IKuan-Dao and they sell many items like CD, DVD, VCD, books of scripture interpretation, and text books. All previous facts of energetic Taiwanese new religious movements are worthy of note to Korean researchers.