한국과 일본의 개신교

국문 초록 (Abstract)

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국문 초록 (Abstract)

한국과 일본은 비슷한 사회경제적 구조와 전통을 가지고 있음에도 불구하고 기독교의 성장에 있어서는 판이한 모습을 보였다. 이 연구는 기독교의 한국에서의 '성공'과 일본에서의 '실패'에 어떠한 역사적, 종교-문화적, 그리고 사회적 조건과 요인들이 작용했는지를 밝히고자 한다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

One of the most remarkable facts about religion in Korea is that Protestantism, which was introduced in 1884, is the second largest religion with nearly nine million adherents and that it has been the fastest growing religion for the last four decades. This is all the more astonishing given the fact that Christianity has failed to strike roots in Japan—a neighbouring country with strikingly similar social organizational arrangements and shared cultural traditions and practices—where less than one percent of the population has converted to Christianity. The key historical-sociological problematic raised by this phenomenal development is obvious: what confluence of historical, religio-cultural, and social conditions and factors account for the Christian “success story” in South Korea and the corresponding “failure” of this imported Western religion to make similar progress in Japan?
This study argues that the main reasons for the different response lie in political and religious situations of the period between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. The factors that set the stage for the different fate of Protestant Christianity in Korea and Japan are many, but the following three have been most important: 1) the difference in the socio-political contexts (political instability and defeat versus stability and triumph); 2) contrasts in the missionaries’ efforts and their impact (appreciation versus indifference and contempt); and 3) dissimilarity in the religio-cultural milieu (lack of religious opposition versus concerted opposition by traditional religions and Shinto-centered unity).

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Abstract

Introduction

Differences in the Reception and Impact of Protestantism in Late Nineteenth Century Korea and Japan

Missionaries' Efforts and Their Impact: Similarities and Differences

Religious Factors in Conversion

Discussion and Conclusions

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