New Religions and Daesoon Jinrihoe in Korea
In the Joseon Dynasty era, Korea adopted Confucianism as its official religion. Confucianism, however, failed to persuade the common people, because it did not include doctrines about the afterlife and prayers to the gods for obtaining their blessings. As a result,...
| Published in: | The journal of CESNUR |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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The journal of CESNUR
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Korean New Religions
B Daesoon Jinrihoe B Daoism in Korea B Donghak B Confucianism in Korea B Religion in Korea |
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| Summary: | In the Joseon Dynasty era, Korea adopted Confucianism as its official religion. Confucianism, however, failed to persuade the common people, because it did not include doctrines about the afterlife and prayers to the gods for obtaining their blessings. As a result, although persecuted or discriminated, Buddhism, Daoism, and shamanism survived, and Catholicism was successfully introduced. None of these religions, however, was able to replace the grand national narrative of Confucianism. As a result, startingwith Donghak in 1860, several new religions emerged. Daesoon Jinrihoe occupies a unique place among them, as the first Korean religion that proposed a systematic theology and an organization based on Daoism, which had been present in Korea since the 7thcentury but never managed to create a stable organized religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2018.2.5.3 |