• 영어영문학
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.597-618
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• 2009

Leslie Marmon Silko, in her novel Gardens in the Dunes, primarily focuses on revealing the white colonialists' plan to exterminate and destroy American Indians and their culture. In this regard, this novel is clearly an Indian counter narrative to interrogate and abrogate the authority of the oppressive and destructive discourse of the whites who are full of colonialist impulses to sterilize Indians and their culture. However, it should be noted that Silko is very careful not to insist on cultural exclusivism and reverse ethnocentrism, since these only mean a return to the violent colonialists' discourse based on dualism and cultural authenticity which, she believes, has led to the marginalization and eventual deterioration of Indians and their culture. White values and culture are something to recognize and tolerate as long as they are not the products of witchery, also known as the destroyer or evil for Silko, which promotes disruption and antagonism between races and classes. As she reveals in her interview, her major concern in the novel is to dismantle political and/or racial distinctions like Native Americans versus EuroAmericans and thus to enhance the idea of the reconciliation and coexistence of whites and Indians. Silko's Gardens in the Dunes can be regarded as an experiment in the possibility of the universal and homogeneous (at least in its roots) global culture which tolerates all forms of culture. Global culture does not mean a uniform totalitarian culture but a vision of a harmonious world characterized by hybridity and heterogeneity, in which different cultures associate freely without the notion of inferiority or superiority of any one culture. Silko's belief in syncretism emphasizes the spirit of tolerance and exchange between different cultures, dismantling the authority of exclusive ethnocentrism. The ultimate message implied in Gardens in the Dunes is that the syncretic spirit is not only an effective means to correct the white colonialists' hegemonic desire aimed at the extermination of Indians and their culture but also a source of energy for the life and prosperity of modern Indians and their societies.

• 수완나부미
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.149-180
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• 2023

This article explores religious responses to significant cultural and social change in a northern Vietnamese delta village from 1996 to 2008-the second decade after de-collectivization. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in both the village and surrounding religious networks, the article teases out the meanings of the new religious movements for northern rural people in the new era of market economy; the symbols, language, and metaphoric resources people used in response to their uncertainty and mistrust of the new social landscape; and the unintended consequences of rapid societal development such as marginalization, tensions, and social disintegration. The article argues that as in milleniarism elsewhere, new religious movements in northern rural Vietnam embody unorthodox syncretism between world religious and local traditions, thus linking past, present, and future. However, when drawing upon a common reservoir of memories and experiences to cope with risks and challenges of the new market world, local people not only drew on the power and imperial metaphor of deities in their traditional religion and belief, but became more creative to recuperate meanings, standards, and symbols from revolutionary discourse to reorient themselves, and overcome alienation and marginalization.

• 대순사상과 동아시아종교
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.41-59
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• 2022

Caodaism is a new religion from Vietnam which began in late 1925 and spread rapidly across the French colony of Indochina. With a broad syncretic aim, the new faith sought to revivify Vietnamese religious traditions whilst also incorporating religious, literary, and spiritist influences from France. Like Catholicism, Caodaism kept a strong focus on its monotheistic nature and today Caodaists are eager to label their religion a monotheism. It will be argued here, however, that the syncretic nature of this new faith complicates this claim to a significant degree. To make this argument, we will consider here the nature of God in Caodaism through two central texts from two important stages in the life of the religion. The first is the canonized Compilation of Divine Messages which collects a range of spirit messages from God and some other divine voices. These were received in the early years of the faith. The second is a collection of sermons from 1948/9 that takes Caodaist believers on a tour of heaven, and which is entitled The Divine Path to Eternal Life. It will be shown that in the first text, God speaks in the mode of a fully omnipotent and omniscient supreme being. In the second text, however, we are given a view of paradise that is much more akin to the court of a Jade Emperor within an East Asian milieu. In these realms, the personalities of other beings and redemptive mechanisms claim much of our attention, and seem to be a competing center of power to that of God. Furthermore, God's consort, the Divine Mother, takes on a range of sacred creative prerogatives that do something similar. Additionally, cadres of celestial administrators; buddhas, immortals, and saints help with the operation of a cosmos which spins on with guidance from its own laws. These laws form sacred mechanisms, such as cycles of reincarnation and judgement. These operate not in the purview of God, but as part of the very nature of the cosmos itself. In this context, the dualistic, polytheistic, and even automatic nature of Caodaism's cosmos will be considered in terms of the way in which they complicate this religion's monotheistic claims. To conclude, this article seeks to demonstrate the precise relevance of the term 'monotheism' for this religion.

• 건축역사연구
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.131-150
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• 1998

Main theme of this study is the acceptance phase of western architectural culture in modern east-north asia through a series of actual survey and typological analysis of existing church buildings in modern Korea. China. Japan. For this study, 126 modern church buildings of Korea, China, Japan are selected. Also, main subject of this study has deal with the side of culture - thought which background of christianity acceptance and acceptance mind of acceptance main-body, culture adaptation and transformation based on characteristic culturalization of Korea, China, Japan. Especially, I would consistently tried to see the acceptance phase of western architectural culture according to differential acceptance mind of acceptance main-body based on characteristic culturalization of three countries. Conclusively, in the point of view of western architectural culture acceptance phase, it could be said that Korean church architecture had characterized as a blending phase of the two eclectic architectural culture. And in the case of china, as a coexistance phase of the two architectural culture with more western style-oriented. On the other hand, Japanese church architecture had characterized as a syncretism phase of the both traditional and western architectural culture, though it is eclectic style-oriented. Therefore, it is thought that different acceptance mind of western culture had main factors caused of differential acceptance phase, when the two architectural culture, the traditional and the western, encounters.

• 대순사상논총
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• 제24_2집
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• pp.165-196
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• 2015

This research starts based on the purpose to investigate the evolution and nature of 48 divinity depends on Gu-Cheon-EungWon-Nweh-Seong-Bo-Hwa-Cheon-Jon(九天應元雷聲普化天尊, Highest ruling Entity and Majesty of Heaven by lightning and thunder raising and ruling all the universe which response to the Supreme) as well as to look at the iconography of that. Ogchugyeong(玉樞經) still exercise enormous influence on Korean folk belief neither in the late Joseon Dynasty and the Japanese colonial period nor till now. The reason for authority of Ogchugyeong(玉樞經) is because Ogchugyeong(玉樞經) was the sutras of being used in the original royal families 48 divinity depends on Gu-Cheon-Eung-Won-Nweh-Seong-Bo-Hwa-Cheon-Jon which appears in Ogchugyeong(玉樞經) is created in Korea. 48 divinity is finally approved at 1888, after it started from 41 at the beginning of the deity general theory(神將論) through developing 47. The figure of 48 seems the result of the syncretism with 48 wishes of Buddhism. Okuchugyong was originally China Taoist scripture, but Okuchugyong entered Korea and reproduced a different look. In China Okuchugyong has two volumes and 44 stature of the deity general(神將) but in Korea Okuchugyong changed to have three volumes and 48 stature.

• 대순사상논총
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• 제20권
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• pp.67-94
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• 2009

Kang Jeung-san whose real name is Kang Il-soon was a Korean born thinker who thought himself as Shangti(上帝). It is told that he made a Great Tour(大巡) upon this world. His thought was affected by Asian traditional philosophy such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. He founded a religious body, called Jeung-san-Gyo which could be formed a syncretism of East Asian traditional thoughts. We have to survey Asian traditional thoughts in order to understand Kang Jeung-san's religious thinking. According to the Great Tour Scripture(大巡典經), he have read Confucian moral books, holy Sutra of Buddha and the books of Daoism. In the field of Confucianism, he stressed upon the Book of Changes (Zou-yi; 周易). And for Buddhism, he showed great concern on a monk, Jin-mook(震黙) who lived 15th century in Chosun Dynasty. Jeung-san Shangti followed Daoistic way when he performed religious ritual. In case of performance, he was compared as a great Shaman who wanted to save the world. And the most typical ritual was called public business of Heaven and Earth(天地公事). He showed a great scale while he was touring the world in space. The most important thing, however, is to overcome the localization which seems still prevailing doctrine of the Jeung-san thought. For this, the followers of Jeung-san-Gyo should study world philosophy and accept the modernity so as to broaden Jeung-san thought to the rest of the world.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.3176-3182
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• 2014

본 논문은 유럽에서 근대건축의 헤게모니 다툼이 치열하게 전개되고 있던 1920년대 일본의 근대건축이 어떠한 성향을 지니면서 발전하게 되는지를 분리파건축회(Japanese Secessionist)의 건축이론과 작품을 통해 살펴보고자 한다. 분리파건축회는 1920년부터 1928년까지 9년이라는 짧은 시간동안 활동한 전위예술가(Avant-garde) 단체이지만, 이들의 도전적이고 활발한 활동이 일본 근대건축의 전통성 논쟁을 비롯해 예술가의 지위에 대한 논란을 불러일으켰다는 점에서 근대건축의 발전에 있어 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있다. 본 논문은 분리파건축회가 창립하게 되는 배경과 더불어 일본 근대건축의 중요한 역사적 사건으로 평가할 수 있는 제반요소들을 제시하고자 한다. 또한, 이들의 급진적인 건축관을 당대 유럽 건축계의 흐름과 대비시켜 파악하고, 근대건축의 전반적인 맥락에서 분리파건축회가 지니는 건축적 경향과 특징을 규명하고자 한다.

• 한국철학논집
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• 제23호
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• pp.181-216
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• 2008

이 글에서는 민이승(閔以升) 사상 가운데 주로 1)지와 지각의 문제, 즉 심성(心性)의 구분에 관한 논의문제, 이와 관련하여 펼쳐진 2)정제두와의 양지 지각의 동이성 문제에 관한 논의 등으로 나누어 살펴본다. 민이승은 양명학자 정제두와 양명학의 시비문제를 둘러싸고 논쟁을 전개하고 있는데, 그 내용은 양명학의 중심개념인 양지와 지각의 동이문제이다. 또한 민이승은 양지와 지각 논쟁의 연장선상에서 김창협과 지(智)와 지각(知覺)의 동이문제를 둘러싸고 논쟁한다. 민이승은 정제두와의 양명학 논쟁에서 양명학의 '심즉리'설과 '지행합일'설에 대해 부정하고 있으며, 양명학의 중심개념인 양지는 천리와는 구분된 지각으로 파악하고 있다. 정제두와 양지와 지각의 관계에 대해 논쟁하고 있는 민이승은 당시 학계에서 진행되고 있었던 지와 지각의 관계에 관심을 가지게 된다. 이 결과, 민이승은 김창협과 지와 지각의 동이문제에 대해 한차례 논쟁을 벌이게 된다. 민이승과 김창협 사이에 전개된 지와 지각의 관계에 대한 논의는 지와 지각의 관계를 불상잡(不相雜)의 측면에서 보느냐 아니면 불상치의 측면에서 보느냐 하는 차이점에 있다. 김창협은 지와 지각이 서로 섞일 수 없다는 불상잡의 입장을 강조하는 데 비해, 민이승은 지와 지각의 관계를 불상리의 입장에서 양자의 연관성에 주목하고 있다. '양지와 지각의 동이문제', '지와 지각의 동이문제'라는 논쟁 주제를 중심으로 양자의 입장 차이를 살펴보고, 이러한 논쟁이 사상사적으로 어떠한 의의가 있는가 살펴보기로 한다.

• 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.238-259
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• 2021

감은사는 문무왕대에 시창하여 신문왕 2년(682)에 완공된 신라중대의 불교사원이다. 본 연구는, 기존의 감은사지 발굴조사 성과를 기초로 하고, 역사학 분야 등에서의 문헌연구 성과를 참고로 하여, 신라감은사건축의 조영계획 양상 및 특질, 그리고 그것과 당시의 정치·사회적, 종교적 환경 간의 관계에 대한 구명을 시도한 것이다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. (1) 감은사 중심곽 내 당탑 및 회랑, 중문과 강당 등 모든 건축물은, 기단부를 기준하여, 방(方)216척(尺)(고구려척, 추정단 위치수 353.30mm)의 윤곽에 남거나 부족함 없이 정확하게 들어가는 것으로 확인된다. 이러한 사실은, '만파식적설화'와 유교예악사상과의 관계, '이견대'의 명칭과 『주역』과의 관계, '감은사지출토 태극무늬장대석'과 『주역』과의 관계 등으로부터 확인되는, 동해구 유적(대왕암·이견대·감은사)에 서린 신라중대왕실의 '유교정치이념의 표방' 의지에 비추어 볼 때 매우 유의미한 것으로 판단되며, 감은사가람의 설계초기단계에 있어서, 잠재하는 규모계획의 기준으로부터 이차적 조정으로서, 『주역』 계사상의 '건지책 216'으로부터 수를 취해 가람중심곽규모의 결정기준으로 삼은 결과로 추정된다. 감은사 당탑 등의 배치계획은, 방(方)216척(尺)의 윤곽 내, 가장자리로부터 중심부로, 즉 가람중축선상 중문·강당의 배치 및 금당 남북위치의 결정, (중문·강당·금당 측면에 각각) 남회랑·강당동서편건물·익랑 배치, 동서회랑의 배치, 동서 석탑 중심위치 결정의 순으로 진행되었을 것으로 추찰된다. (2) 감은사건축에 있어서의 유불공존적 양상은, 『금광명경(金光明經)』에 대한 이해를 바탕으로 한 것이며, 왕의 화신인 용이 용혈(龍穴)을 통해 금당기단 내에 들어 선요(旋繞) 즉, 공경·숭봉(崇奉)을 행함으로써 "음양조화시부월서(陰陽調和時不越序) 일월성숙부실상도(日月星宿不失常度) 풍우수시무제재횡(風雨隨時無諸災横)" 등의 무량공덕이 얻어지기를, 그리고 일월에 비유되는 부처의 광명이, 새로이 유교를 정치이념으로 삼아 운영해 나갈 국가, 신라의 사방 천하(천(天)=건(乾), 건지책 216척(尺) 규모의 가람중심곽)에 길이 두루 비춰지기를 염원한 문무왕의 뜻에서 비롯된 것으로 추찰된다. 그리고 그 구상 및 실현에 있어서는 유불습합적 사상 경향을 가졌던, 그리고 문무왕이 유언으로서 국사로 삼기를 당부했고 신문왕 즉위 후 국로로 임명되었던, 경흥(憬興)이 깊이 관여했을 것으로 추측된다.