한국민족종교의 특성과 대순사상

Abstract

The time when Korea entered into a early-modern society was before or after the beginning of the past 20th century despite its long history. In this short period, Korea was revealed to the tide of the world history to show itself on the international stage. What was the problem here was the inherence that is required for the history of the Korean spirit. Though Korea of course had cultural tradition before, and had religious culture that formed the mainstream, there had been no such religions of which most of the people were the subject yet. The religions that enhanced the national spirit encountering the internal and external contradictions of the state, and were initiated as people’s spontaneous movements were the original religions appearing in the early-modern history of Korea. The Original Korean religions are understood to be Sintoburi ‘the original are the best’ Korean religions that advocate universal human salvation with such a temporal sense of duty, and attract attention as a kind of Korean culture in the world. Based on the background so far, this paper tries to investigate properties of original Korean religions in this period of globalization, and introduce the ideology of Haewon-Sangsaeng ‘helping one another through eliminating of resentment’ in the Daesoon philosophy, which occupies a place in the Korean religion. Finding its place as the main ideology of the Daesoon Philosophy, ‘Haewon-Sangsaeng’ is an ideology with which the former tries to lead human peace and world prosperity with national identity as an original Korean religion. As a main term of ‘Haewon’ has an all-mankind and worldwide meaning as well as humans’self-realization, in that it pursues the desirable state of the whole universe. As a new principle of interrelationship, ‘Sangsaeng’ has the principle of positive reciprocity. On its basis exists the collectivist view of world that claims that the mankind and the whole creatures belong to a unique substance. It is the value of the Daesoon Philosophy as an original Korean religion in Korea to make the whole mankind unitary by the ideology of Haewon-Sangsaeng, and try to fulfill eternal peace for the mankind.