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논문제목 종교 사용 설명서: 종교 교육에 대한 시론적 접근

저자 이창익

참여구분 HK연구인력

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학술지명 종교문화연구 제19호

발행처 한신대 종교와문화연구소

게재일 2012.12.23

종교 사용 설명서 -종교 교육에 대한 시론적 접근-

이창익(원광대학교 마음인문학연구소 HK연구교수)

How to Use Religion: An Essay on Religious Education

Abstract

Now we have to ask whether the traditional category of ‘believer’ is still relevant to the present religious situation. This category is circumscribed by the boundary which makes the concept of ‘world religions’ function effectively. But the taxonomical division between ‘world religions’ may well be the product of theoretical or historical imagination, and if so, it is not natural but manufactured. In the same context, it is not natural to think that the statistical size of ‘believers’ might be correspond to the religious influence of a particular religion in a particular society. The numerical size of religious population will not protect a particular religion from the neoliberal threat of survival of the fittest. Today many religions are intent on increasing their own believers by religious education in private school. That is, they are transmuting a part of schooling into religious discipline. Presently many religions are more religious in school than in church and temple. Education is the most favorite food for the contemporary religions, and therefore many religions are recycling their traditional teachings into the technique of mind training in neoliberal situation. But when religions are ‘used’ in this way, they will fall into the level of micro-religion for curing the secular sundries.

Key words : religious education, believer, mission, neoliberalism, secularism