Many religions were newly founded in Korea since Choi, Soo-oon established the Chon-do-kyo in 1860.
It is commony said that a vacuum of the Korean thought reaches from the end of Yi-dynasty to the recent years.
However, at this period, there were ...
Many religions were newly founded in Korea since Choi, Soo-oon established the Chon-do-kyo in 1860.
It is commony said that a vacuum of the Korean thought reaches from the end of Yi-dynasty to the recent years.
However, at this period, there were quickening of excellent thoughts in proeperity as if difficult to find such the thoughts even in any history, and were the developments of their concrete movements to realize the good thoght as well.
As the representative religions in the realization of the thoghts are the Chon-do-kyo founded by Soon-oon, Cheung-san-kyo by Cheung-san and Won Budddhism(Won-Bul-kyo) by So-tge-san. The ideas for the social reform can be enumerated Soo-oon's Worship of the Heaven, Cheung-san's Harmony against Human Grudge and So-tae's Requifal for the Grace of Awareness. They tried to renew human being and to remodel the society under the background of the idea.
They exerted a great influence upon Korean society, from the end of Cho-son dynasty to a Japanese despotic period of Korea, thoght carrying out their social reform movement. Therefore, what is specially noteworthy was to recover national consciousness by ensureing racial subjectivity. It is a common special feature that they let human being revise his slackend spirit fundameutally on the side of the people in pain, reforming the society with the participation in public affairs. By way of the illustrations appear a Dong-hak Revolution and the 1919 Independence Movement of the Chon-do-kyo, the Reform Movement of Heaven, Earth and Mankind of Cheung-san-kyo, and the Cultivation Movement of Won Buddhism.
The only way of them are as follows;Soo-oon took an excessive antagonisticline, but Cheung-san did a nonresisting sequstered attitude. Then So-tae-san took part in the real society actively by escapeing the extreme confrontation.
Relative importance is put on the social reform ideas and activities set forth by three kinds of religions during the end of Cho-son dynasty covering Japanese oppression of Korea.