극우 개신교와 후기 자본주의 파시즘 ― 통계적 분석의 신학적 성찰

Abstract

This article offers a Christian theological interpretation of the entanglement between Korean Protestant faith and what Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen calls “late capitalist fascism.” Rather than treating extreme-right Protestantism as a marginal pathology, it asks how particular images of God, church, and neighbor serve to sacralize authoritarian desire, market absolutism, and cultural exclusion. Using nationwide survey data on Korean Protestants as a diagnostic lens, the article shows that these political and affective tendencies are not external to faith, but are instead woven into everyday piety, ecclesial structures, and theological language. On this basis, the article argues that late capitalist fascism functions as an internal driving force behind the authoritarian structures of the Korean church and its dynamics of hatred and exclusion. It legitimizes hierarchical and opaque church power and normalizes hostility toward vulnerable others in the name of faith. In conclusion, the article sketches normative directions for reconfiguring Christian understandings of God, church, democracy, and economic life, thereby exploring how Protestant faith might become a force of resistance, rather than reinforcement, with respect to religious fascist currents in late capitalist society.