불교사회복지학의 성과와 전망

Abstract

So called academic identity needs its own specialty andpeculiarity in reference to theoretical system, study-methodology,study- objectives and its domain. Also there needs group identitywith cohesive and united power that many scholars compose of. This review is a kind of basic step to go for searching the academicidentity of buddhist social welfare studies, by analyzing the trendsof articles published in the past for about 30 years. Buddhist social welfare studies have rapidly increased since2000. The methodology of study was mainly based on the literature,at 68% of all. Among the research articles, 37% of targetpopulations were buddhists(=17% of total articles), 33%(=62% oftotal) were not specified with any demographic target. My reasonto focus on the different religious background is because we needto deal with it(=religiosity or spirituality) properly in this area ofreality. As result of analyzing study themes, we can see the 45% oftotal articles was about ideology and perspective issue, the 20%was about practice-subjective, the 17% was about service skillsand methodology issue, the 10% was about resource issue and 6%is for target issue. In terms of demographic targets, the aged is 7%,childe is 5%, the disabled 4%, the youth 2%, the woman 2% andfamily 1%. In terms of fields, general community issue is 69% oftotal, mental health and medical issue 11%, buddhist temple andsangha issue 11%, school and childcare issue 2% and correctionalissue 1%, etc. Now we need to study more for youth· woman· family and alsomore in special fields such as army· school· childcare· mentalhealth.