심포지엄 무속과 한국예술 - 삶 속의 예술 , 예술 속의 삶 : 한국의 종교문화와 민간신앙 = Symposium - Shamanism and Korean Art : The Locus of Folk - belief within the Study of Religion in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Concepts are not part of free-floating philosophical discourse, but historically, and theoretically rooted, and must be explained in terms of these realities. Folk-belief is not exceptional. This article opens this discursive reading of the function and implications of the term; folk-belief within the study of religion by examining the writings and theories of much of modern discourse of it. Therefore the topic occupies the general focus of this article is not a practical description of folk-belief but an analytical understanding of the concept played by the category of religion since the modernization period of Korea. The concept of religion as well as of folk-belief has been conceived as historically contextualized new terminology. Accordingly, the discourse on folk-belief will have to take into account not simply its pre-religion origins but also its inevitable post-religion realities. In its place, this paper suggests that there is something at stake for the imagery and language we use when conveying our description and interpretation on folk-belief. This article argues that the widespread and virtually normative scholarly assumption that folkbelief is non-religious religion is a highly imaginative act of scholars to sustain their own confidence that religion Is a self-evident phenomena. Perhaps the most representative argument in this paper can be found in the two contrasting terminologies: soteriological ethos vs soteriological doctrine. The writer asserts folk-belief can be examined only in terms of soteriological ethos, The locus of folk-belief within the study of religion is implicitly involved in that assertion.