Many aspects of our society have been affected by the christian religion. It was never to say that influence of christian religion on our women were only a little.
The purposes of this study were 1) to analize the woman's view in terms of the Christi...
Many aspects of our society have been affected by the christian religion. It was never to say that influence of christian religion on our women were only a little.
The purposes of this study were 1) to analize the woman's view in terms of the Christian philosophy by the litteral study, 2) to examine the transition process of Korean Women's view before or after the civilization period and 3) to suggest the ideal image of Korean Women based on the christian philosophy searched by this survey study.
To achieve these purposes , the image of Woman was analized in three aspects such as
the woman in general , the wife and the mother.
The questionnaire consisted of the 12 open-question items and the 42 multiple-choice
items. The subjects of this investigation were 40 men and 45 women of reverends, evangelists and professors majoring in Theology. The average age of the subjects was 36 years old.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
(1) On the woman's image in general, most subjects responded that the active and positive attitude towards living is desirable. The participating extent was the highest in the educational dimension and the lowest in the political activity dimension. The interesting thing was that most of men and women subjects responded that it is desirable to follow the traditiona1 morality such as self-sacrifice, self-devotion and perseverance.
According to this result, we can say that one must have the active and positive attitude towards one's living, but such attitude must be supported morally by our traditional value.
(2) The results show that the ideal wife must have on attitude to develop herself continually in the educational dimension, but carry out this social activity only within the extent not to give any trouble to their usual family life. It also was revealed that the main role of a good wife was to devote herself to her husband and parents-in-law within the family.
(3) An ideal image of mother was as follows: She always must focus primarily on the child caring and must be the devoted and sacrified mother for her children. Moreover, to be a good model for her children she should put such efforts constantly for the development of herself.
In a word, while devoting for her family, she must be a super-woman filled with constant up-wards mobility spiritually.
Virtually, these results suggested that the ideal image of woman pursued in the Christian religion concided with our traditional value on women.