근ㆍ현대 한국 신종교 주문(呪文)에 나타난 한국인의 종교심성 연구

Abstract

The study of Korean new religion in modern and contemporary requires in-depth and integral perspective research rather than introduction of individual religion or simple comparison. In such research methodology,common theme penetrating every new religion is important element. In this research, religious spell or holy words has been dealt as an important and significant religious core code for understanding them. On the process of research through analysis of type and content of religious spell, investigation of ideological origin, and meaning in religious practice and ceremony, we can find out the religious significance and the belief system commonly penetrating Korean new religions,an archetype of religious nature of Korean people’s originally own,and furthermore, origin of thoughts. Korean new religion presently assumes to be remaining three hundreds organizations, soon after establishment of Donghak by Choi Je-Woo in 1860 was a hundreds organizations in twelve religious groups, and after the independence was, flourished in numbers and size, four hundreds organizations in fourteen groups. Those Korean new religions are using various religious spells for their belief and practice methods. This research has dealt with religious spells in important new religions taking significant role and continuing tradition of their religion in the modern and contemporary history of Korea. This research has found out that important religious nature of Korean is core concepts as like heaven(天), energy(氣), mind(心),and so on, and the structure of belief and practice in them. It also identify that religious nature of Korean was intactly melted in those modern and contemporary Korean new religions. However, such religious nature of Korean was sunken in tremendous confusion in the modern and contemporary history. Nevertheless, in the tenets and thoughts of Korean new religion silently kept Korean calm religious nature in modern and contemporary history, especially in the religious spells used in those religions, they contains core concepts to heal emotional pathological phenomena of contemporary society. We can expect that when those concepts are located in the life and the consciousness of contemporary Korean by various education or practice, then diverse matters of contemporary society can be cured.