일제하 식민권력의 종교정책과 보천교(普天敎)의 운명 = The Japanese Colonial Power and the Destiny of BoCheonGyo in the Japanese Colonial Period

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the policies of religion, expecially new-religion, that the Japan Government-General of Chosen had developed. It is known generally that religion is useful instrument for weakening the consciousness of national resistance and achieving the goal of assimilation, than a repressive measure. It was outcomes from Meiji-Governmemt’s experience that had developed persistently the policy of religion. The Japanese Colonial Power had developed the policy on religions from the beginning, in order to control anti-governmental possibility and to accomplish a purpose of assimilation. Accordingly, the policy of religion that the Japanese Colonial Power had unfolded, is summarized as these concepts, such as Shinto-centered policy of religion, the control strategy of separation of ‘non-religion’ ‘religion’ and ‘pseudo-religion’, the registration-opening system for pseudo-religion, and strategy for labelling pseudo-religion into superstition. But despite the fact that the BoCheonGyo was recognized as being a quasi-religion, the size of the BoCheonGyo was enlarged in the 1920s after 3.1 Movement. So it becomes clear that the BoCheonGyo suffered heavy damage by the Japanese Colonial Power. It should be noted to be condemned of being a premodern and anti-social, quasi-religion as the Japanese Colonial Power intentionally spreaded malign propaganda to oppress the religion. It is certain that the negative sentimentality against BoCheonGyo was already firmly established in that times, and religious policies in the colonial period had the plot for brain-washing and Japanization of Korean through the manipulation of religion.