1911년 조선총독부의 종교정책과 조선 내 종교계 동향: 조선총독부 『사사종교(社寺宗敎)』 자료를 중심으로

Abstract

This study investigates transitional aspects of the Japanese Empire’s policies towards colonial religions, focusing on its policy towards religions and the trend of religious world in Joseon and Japan and centering on primary sources from the Japanese Government-General of Korea, Religions of Shrines and Temples. Studies conducted previously concerning the religious policies of the Japanese Government-General of Korea have been developed in terms of the regulations and resulting suppression for gaining control of the religions of Joseon. However, examining the various conflicts and contradictions caused by the collision between the undifferentiated religious situations in colonial Joseon and the awareness of religions in inland Japan during the process in which these religious policies were transformed into laws regulating colonial religions is necessary. Among the Japanese Government-General of Korea, employees in relevant jobs, religious orders and local religious workers, the religious policies implemented immediately after the Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty came to show transitional aspects due to a lack of recognition of the institutionalized religious policy. From trial and error and discords, the religious policy in colonial Joseon was finalized. This study does not focus on the impact of these policies on the religions of Korea or Japan, but examines the religious phenomena before legislation related to those policies was passed. To do so, it studies the aspects of the religious world of Korea and Japan as represented in 1911 in Religions of Shrines and Temples.