세계평화통일가정연합의 조직에 관한 연구

Abstract

Family Federation for World Peace and Unification is a new religion stemming from Christianity, which is indigenous in South Korea and has globalized its domain of activities. There are few studies of the organization of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and in some studies, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification is briefly mentioned in the category of the classical typology of religious organizations or the range and period are limited. This study attempts to conduct a study of an understanding of the organization of a new religion separated from the category of typology, focusing on how Family Federation for World Peace and Unification organizes, realizes and promotes the purpose or goal of the community of believers in the internal and external relationships of the religious order. The organizations of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification can be divided broadly into a domestic organization meaning the inside of the community of believers and an overseas organizations called Providential organizations, which have developed overseas activities. As the domestic organization, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification has a global central organization for the realization of the Unified Nation of Cosmic Peace meaning a world of a religious ideal. In addition, through its overseas organizations, it develops various activities for the world peace for the realization of an ideal world through worldwide groups related to religious circles, political circles, academic circles, women’s circles, and youth and student groups. Especially, they are characterized by the alliance with international organizations for activities centering around the two axes of religious circles and political circles. Various overseas organizations of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification reveal the purpose-oriented propensity of a community of believers. Meanwhile, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification has an institutional task to prepare for the situations after the first generation of the founder couple with religious charisma in an organizational aspect concretely stipulate the contents.