儒敎社會化過程中‘學問性’與‘宗敎性’

Abstract

Today's Confucianism has the characteristics of both academic system and religion. For this reason, these two characteristics have not come into conflict with each other in their process of becoming socialized, but they have been widespread in varied ways. Namely, with the socialization of Confucianism, it has become structuralized with the systematization of academic system and religion, and the axis of such structuralization has included ‘li xue’ and ‘li jiao.’From a perspective of emphasizing academic system, Confucianism became socialized based on objectivity and theory of value, whereas from a perspective underlining religiosity, Confucianism became socialized based on traditional ritualism and intensification of introspection. Based on that today's Confucianism is in the transitional period of becoming newly structuralized, this study considered that two different traits of socialization could be meaningfully combined. When Confucianism became socialized, its meaning included systematization, popularization, and naturalization. Therefore, Confucianism could maintain and develop its characteristics in academic system, religiosity or other dimensions as part of concrete communication of socio-cultural phenomena. This study could confirm that Confucianism had the period-by-period 'extendibility' beyond the characteristics of academic system and religion. This could be found in that sufficient amalgamative characteristics that could embrace academic system and religiosity were inherent in numerous Confucius educational institutions that have been passed down to the present from their initial stage. Namely, the educational institutions, such as Seowon and Hakdang, maximized socio-cultural influences by rationally harmonizing academic system and religiosity and kept sticking to their 'extendibility' through communication.