• 제목/요약/키워드: immigration theology

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이주의 관점으로 본 구약성서의 여성들의 행동과 평화의 가치 (The Value of Peace and the Acts of Women of the Old Testament from the Migrational Perspective)

  • 최은영
    • 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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    • 제6권7호
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    • pp.321-328
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    • 2016
  • 본 연구는 자신의 고향이 떠나 이주를 경험한 구약성서의 여성들(하갈, 다말, 라합, 룻, 수넴에 사는 귀한 여성, 이름없는 어린 여종)을 중심으로 현재를 살아가는 다문화사회에서 적용할 가치를 찾는 것이다. 이들이 각각 등장하는 성서본문은 다양한 상황과 배경임에도 불구하고 주로 가정 안에서 여성의 역할을 강화하는 목적으로 사용되어 온 것에 대해 비판한다. 이주의 관점으로 여성신학적 비평, 이야기 비평, 독자반응비평 등을 적용하여 새로운 해석을 도출하였다. 당시 여성에게 제약이 많은 가부장적 사회에서 서로 배경과 상황이 달랐음에도 불구하고 6명의 이주여성 모두는 자신의 긍정적인 역할을 통해 주변과 평화적인 관계를 만들어낸 사례로 소개했다. 이는 인종, 성, 계급이라고 하는 이주민과 비이주민, 여성과 남성, 경제적 차이를 인정하되 이를 차별의 도구로 사용하지 않도록 제안한다. 또한 이들 성서의 여성들을 통해 주체적이며 사회 정의와 평화를 위해 노력하는 역할 모델로서의 가능성도 발견할 수 있다.

A New Challenge to Korean American Religious Identity: Cultural Crisis in Korean American Christianity

  • Ro, Young-Chan
    • 대순사상논총
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    • 제18권
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    • pp.53-79
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    • 2004
  • This paper explores the relationship between Korean immigrants to the United States and their religious identity from the cultural point of view. Most scholarly studies on Korean immigrants in the United States have been dominated by sociological approach and ethnic studies in examining the social dimension of the Korean immigrant communities while neglecting issues concerning their religious identity and cultural heritage. Most Korean immigrants to America attend Korean churches regardless their religious affiliation before they came to America. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the fact that Korean church has provided a necessary social service for the newly arrived immigrants. Korean churches have been able to play a key role in the life of Korean immigrants. Korean immigrants, however, have shown a unique aspect regarding their religious identity compared to other immigrants communities in the United States. America is a nation of immigrants, coming from different parts of the world. Each immigrant community has brought their unique cultural heritage and religious persuasion. Asian immigrants, for example, brought their own traditional religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism. People from the Middle Eastern countries brought Islamic faith while European Jews brought the Jewish tradition. In these immigrant communities, religious identity and cultural heritage were homo genously harmonized. Jewish people built synagogue and taught Hebrew, Jewish history, culture, and faith. In this case, synagogue was not only the house of worship for Jews but also the center for learning Jewish history, culture, faith, and language. In short, Jewish cultural history was intimately related to Jewish religious history; for Jewish immigrants, learning their social and political history was indeed identical with leaning of their religious history. The same can be said about the relationship between Indian community and Hinduism. Hindu temples serve as the center of Indian immigrantsin providing the social, cultural, and spiritual functions. Buddhist temples, for that matter, serve the same function to the people from the Asian countries. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetans, and Thais have brought their respective Buddhist traditions to America and practice and maintain both their religious faith and cultural heritage. Middle Eastern people, for example, have brought Islamic faith to the United States, and Mosques have become the center for learning their language, practicing their faith, and maintaining their cultural heritage. Korean immigrants, unlike any other immigrant group, have brought Christianity, which is not a Korean traditional religion but a Western religion they received in 18th and 19th centuries from the West and America, back to the United States, and church has become the center of their lives in America. In this context, Koreans and Korean-Americans have a unique situation in which they practice Christianity as their religion but try to maintain their non-Christian cultural heritage. For the Korean immigrants, their religious identity and cultural identity are not the same. Although Korean church so far has provides the social and religious functions to fill the need of Korean immigrants, but it may not be able to become the most effective institution to provide and maintain Korean cultural heritage. In this respect, Korean churches must be able to open to traditional Korean religions or the religions of Korean origin to cultivate and nurture Korean cultural heritage.

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