This thesis critically analyzes the present condition of Christianity in Asia. It notes the shift of World mission from a Western perspective to Asian perspective. It also provides a descriptive analysis of the factors affecting the spread of Christianity in Asia. Concrete recommendations are drawn to fortify Asian missions. Furthermore, this thesis discusses the role of Korean Christians, as a majority, in the spread of the gospel. The Christian population in Asia is considered statistically as a marginalized denomination with less than ten percent (10%) share of the total world Christian population. However, considering the thirty percent (30%) Christians around the world, Asian Christians constitute a minute proportion to Ule face of the Christian faith. This is taken in the context of a global perspective that Christian Mission in Asiastill continues to be in the state of passivity despite the numbers of missions sent abroad to spread the gospel. The 21st century World Mission has shifted its target to the Asian third world countries. W. B?lman stressed that the center of mission is moving towards the 3rd world countries. Missions have taken into account the number of population and the di stinctive features of Asia. W. B?lman also noted that before the 21st century the Christian population among the whites is more overwhelming than the nonwhite Christians. In the turn of the 21st century, the growth has changed. This is manifested in the growth of non-white Chri stian population in Asia after the evangeli zation by the western missionaries. To date, the 3rd world Christians has taken quantum leaps to share the gospel to their neighboring countries. Despite the missions conducted by churches and Christians in Asia, the people has stayed steadfast to passivity to the acceptance of the gospel. One distinct feature of Asian roots is its various cultural heritage. These roots have been celebrated and preserved to take its truest color. The spirit evolved by this heritage enlivens the Asians. Throughout the years missions have approached these cultures in the light of western ideology and theology. The differences created a conflict and resulted to the passivity of Asians to Christian faith. The author agrees with Aloysius Pieris that poverty is a major factor in the resistance of the Asians to accept the gospel. The control of st ru ctured institutions, s uch as government, eco nomy and education, have hindered the influx of new fa ith. Aloysius Pieris calls this forced poverty. Asian countries have been the crad les of world religions. The growth of these religions all ied the growth of civilization, which strengthened believers in Asia. Some of these world religions are: Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam and even Christianity. These religions have guided believers through their respective scriptures and the tides of civilization strengthened these faiths among Asians. Missions have been idealistic to penetrate the threshold of these major religions and make them accept the Christian faith. But the plurality of religions curtailed the light of Christian faith to the Asians. The Asian population plays a vital challenge to the world Christian Mission. It constitutes a big portion of the world population in which the Christian faith has not reached. The immersion of missionaries to do the task of sharing the gospel has been in vain. Passivity of Christians has always been the reason for the resistance. However, this research, P9sits that mission should be revolutionized to achieve its goal of sharing the gospel. Choan Seng Song suggests Transpositional Theology to carry out the mission. This is the change of approach to introduce the gospel based on Asian perspective. Aloysius Pieris calls this as Asian style gospel. Adaptation to the different cultures in Asia through mission research will play crucial role in the attainment of the task. With the adequate knowledge of the culture, genuine empathy to the experiences, situation, condition and status of Asians will ease the immersion of missionaries in a different culture. The establishment of oneness to the particular group of Asian will be timely for the inculcation of the Christian scripture. Thus, increasing the chance to spread the gospel successfully. Since oneness is very important to the spread of the gospel, Asians are more capable of understanding, adapting, empathizing with fellow Hinduism, Asians. This is called by Choan Seng Song as the 3rd ideology that only Asians can see the Asian roots. Theology school system should restructure its westernized method of teaching theology. Western missionaries have left Asian Theology schools with teachings designed in western context and it has effected the spread of the gospel by Asians also using the western approach. Students of theology will appreciate more the teachings of, the gospel when the context is based on their Asian background and experiences. Appreciative students will be potent instruments in the spreading of the truth. Forced poverty as stated earlier has been identified by Aloysius Pieris to hinder the spread of Christianity, which is in contrast to voluntary poverty. Voluntary poverty manifests the features of a true Christian. He who chooses to be poor truly believes in the doctrine and wholeheartedly serves for the spread of the gospe\. He is a selfless servant of the church and tries to live a life that of Jesus Christ. World mission is optimistic that the realization of its vision will be achieved. Asian Christians comprises only less than ten percent (10%) of the Asian population. Despite the Chri stianityis unpopularity in Asia, Korea has reached a majority in number. Recently, statistics shows that twenty five percent (25%) of the Korean population are Christians. Unlike other Asian countries with framed religions such as Japan (Shintoism), India (Hinduism/ Buddism), China (Confucianism), Korea has opened its horizon to other religions, which includes Christianity . Historically, Korea has its religious roots in Shamanism. In the passing of time, Christian missionarie have immersed with traditions and belief of Korea. Other philosophies (Confucianism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Hinduism) have also found their way to shape Korean belief. Since Christian population in Korea is overwhelming now , Christians are to take part in the spreading of the gospel in Asia. This is the role of the Korean Christians. With the recommendations above, Korean Missions are expected to prosper in its missiological task in religious plurality in Asia.

In my article titled “Nationalism of William B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney in their early poetry: mythic nationalism and realistic national consciousness” which was published in The Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 45 No. 3, I analyzed three among four factors of nationalism (implicated) in the two poets’ early poetry, that is, ethnicity, language, territory. This article deals with one remaining factor of nationalism, religion, in their middle poetry. Religion is so powerful an influence in Ireland that Irish nationalism can be considered Irish Catholic Nationalism. The political, religious, and economic conflicts between Anglo-Irish Protestants and Catholic Irish made Ireland divided into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, after Ireland was liberated from British imperialism in 1922. The native Irish who had lost even their mother tongue, Gaelic during the colonial period of almost 800 years ruled by the British Empire sought their national identity in Catholicism and made the religious oppression of Britain their centripetal force. To Yeats, religion was not a dogmatic faith of institutionalized religion but a field in which his imagination of the supernatural is allowed full play to go beyond the ephemeral real world to the eternal spiritual world. He set the Irish religious identity on Irish countrymen’s native faith in faerie, ghost, eternity of soul, and the world of magic expressed in Irish legends, folklore, myths, and oral traditions. He satisfied his hunger for the ultimate truth of universe with the Irish ancient faith in the mystical world of the everlasting soul and the visionary as well as various kinds of mysticism in the East and the West. The mystical religious identity of the native Irish emphasized by him anticipated the continuous collisions among him, the Catholic pulpit and Irish nationalists. His romantic belief in a heroic spiritual Ireland materialized his Irish Literary Movement and his idealized Anglo-Irish Ascendancy culture was far from the political nationalism of the middle class of Ireland, the political class of the people democracy. Seamus Heaney has also suffered from the conflict between his cultural․ political ideals which are fundamentally Ireland-centered and the political reality of the violent IRA (Irish Republican Army) which kills even civilians at random for the cause of nationalism. To Heaney the religious faith was a recognition of the deep value of the religious ritual and the Catholic ritual has been internalized in his feminine poetic sensibility of patience, humility, duty, discipline, guiltiness, grace, wonder, and the ritual supplication. The Irish religious identity he put an emphasis on was not the visionary mystic one of Yeats but the real one which has been internalized in the minds of the native Catholic Irish as “self-afflicting compulsions” and spiritual paralysis, especially in terms of political martyrdom complex in IRA and historical defeatism of Catholic priests in Northern Ireland. Both Heaney and Yeats opposed violence of nationalism and sought their ideal one. Religion has had a devastating influence on the two tribal struggle in Ireland so that the two poets refused the established Christianity and tried to enhance Irish republican nationalism to the genuine nationalism allowing the peaceful co-existence of the two races living in Ireland. Heaney demythodized Yeats’s myth of the political martyrdom and denied the religious halo of Irish nationalism as well as the mythodized force in the history of the Northern Europe. His quest of democratic co-existence of plural culture in Ulster seems realistic and idealistic solution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

This paper is to get away from contemporary literary criticism and discourse concerning Yeats and Eliot. This is not to ignore the features of contemporary culture which are changing rapidly, including modernism to postmodernism. Yet, I want to focus on the poem itself. With the poems of both poets dealing with the same topic coincidently, I concentrate on the different aspects of modern poetry and importance of style from the two poets. Also, I believe that such aspects and difference in style will dedicate to understanding contemporary culture from their different points of view of the world and religion. This view helps us to understand today’s cultural facets from which we can experience a variety of lifestyles. Especially, religious points of view by the two poets help us see the relations of religion with today’s culture, the religion which might not be considered serious today in a general sense. The poem, “The Magi,” is thus delivered in this paper to see such religious significance as suggested from various literary symbols they are using in their poetry. Eliot tries to find the way in which ultimate happiness of human beings comes from the life in religious dimension; whileas Yeats wants to possess a complete life on a different level, that is the world of poetry. Such visions are well suggested in the poem, “The Magi.” Eliot discovers a Christian life from which people can experience a new vision in today’s difficult times. Yet, Yeats explores a new life in arts. The former is dreaming of a Christian kingdom while the latter is dreaming of a visionary kingdom. These differences command the style and form of the two poets. In this respect, Yeats gets over Eliot’s prejudice on him. So, the two poets should not be evaluated on the basis of time. They should be taken into account from a variety of perspectives, not from any fixed ones, with the different values they are suggesting beyond time and place.

The purpose of this study was to understand the arrangement of the religious food and religious diet in Kang-Rung region which was recogniged as cultural region. Investtigation was done by interview person to person, and the results are as follows. 1. The arrangement of religious food and regious diet in Kang-neung region were differed from home to home. 2. In Kang-neung region, Chu-suk religious ceremonies and religious diet were setted much religious diet than memorial service which was held on an anniversary of their's death. 3. At first line, they have arranged Hynbab and Kuk, or Papbaab and Miyegkuk or Paogikuk. On the other hand, Songpyen was placed in traditional standard setting. At second line, they have arranged Songpyen, Kijung, Aegeok, Yukgeok, Nurumgeok, DonBaegigeok, Memilgeok, and cooked octopus(muneo) on the Aegeok. They have also arranged fishes which were the cooked Alaska pollack(rnyongtai), codfish(daeku), flatfish (kajami), yellowtail(bangeo), salmon(yeoneo), trout(songeo) and Saegsunjeon, Dubujeon, Wanjajeon, Kokumajeon. At third line, they have arranged Yuktang, Sotang, Eotang, Altang which is boiled eggs. Altang was arranged instead of steamed chicken. At fourth line, they have arranged Bukeopo, Cuttlefish(dried Ojingeo), Gajamisikhe, Myungtaeposikhe. On the other hand, Sikhe was necessarily placed on the setting of traditional standard service for the ancestor. They have arranged also Chinese bellflower(Doragi), Fernbrake(Kosali), Spinach, Osmund (Kobi), Greenbean Sprouts, Leopard plant(Komchwi), Gourd(Pak), and Lentinus edodes (Pyokjo), but Kimchi was omitted. At fifth line, they have arranged Date, Chestnut, Persimmon, the fruit of Actinidia arguta(Dare), Heron, Banana, Kwajeul and Kangiung were considered as dishes. Dasik and biscut were also used for setting dishes.

How did the Korean religious culture which was consisted of three different religions- Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism- be combined and transformed? The author focused the mixture and transformation of the procedure of sacrificial rite and the arrangement of sacrificial food in each religion. In this thesis, the author studied first, the conception in sacrificial rite, second, the procedure of sacrificial rite, third, the items of sacrificial rite food according to each period. In consequence of the research each religion had lost its uniqueness and became mixed to each other and settled down in Korean culture.

본 연구는 무굴 아크바르 황제의 명으로 제롬 하비에르 선교사가 예수 의 생애에 관해 저술했던 『거룩함의 거울』의 텍스트와 이미지의 제작 의 도에 관한 문화 종교적 분석이다. 먼저 아크바르 황제는 예수의 생애에 대 해 다양한 종교에 관한 이성적 관심의 일환으로 예수의 기적과 신성에 관 해 왕권 강화적 측면에서 관심을 가졌다. 한편 제롬은 황제를 개종시킬 목 적으로 무굴의 문화와 종교를 이해하면서 예수의 생애와 접촉점이 될 만한 내용을 선택하여 저술했다. 또한 무굴 궁정의 화가들은 제롬의 텍스트에 대한 이해를 바탕으로, 이 슬람과 힌두교 종교예술 양식과 서양 기독교의 양식을 혼합하여 예수의 생 애에 관한 그림을 그렸다.『거룩함의 거울』에 나타난 이러한 문화적 종교 적 대화를 통해 직접적인 개종으로 이어지지는 않았지만, 일방적이고 강압 적이지 않았고 서로의 종교와 문화를 이해하려는 열린 마음이 있었다. 이 러한 무굴제국의 문화 적응적 예수회 선교의 예는 오늘날 여전히 어려움에 봉착한 인도의 모슬렘, 힌두교인의 선교방법에 대화를 통한 선교의 긍정적 선례를 제공한다.

The religious organization members have a unique take on the spiritual factors related to their daily life. The present study contributed to the lack of discussion investigating this particular pool of data’s financial behavior. This article regressed several predictors of economic behavior, i.e., the locus of control, financial attitude, income, and religiosity, with 460 respondents. The results of the research are as follows: Financial attitude partially influences the financial behavior of Muhammadiyah committee members. Income partially influences the financial behavior of Muhammadiyah committee members. This research indicates that income is one of the factors that plays an essential role in determining the merits of improvement of the financial behavior of Muhammadiyah committee members. The higher the level of income received by Muhammadiyah members, the higher the desire to spend the money. Religiosity partially influences the financial behavior of the religious board of Muhammadiyah members in Indonesia. The higher the religiosity of Muhammadiyah committee members will encourage better financial management. Religiosity indicates how often individuals or Muhammadiyah members practice the religious sharia that they embrace. The findings of this study reveal that locus of control, financial attitude, income, and religiosity are the strong predictors of the board of the religious organization’s financial behavior in Indonesia.

본 논문은 1890년부터 1900년 사이에 출판된 서회의 단행본(book, booklet, tract)의 목록을 새롭게 고증하고, 각 도서의 내용을 일별하면서 초기 출판 경향을 분석해 보고자 하였다. 기존에 밝혀진 19권의 도서 외에 본 논문을 통해 9권의 도서가 추가적으로 밝혀졌는데, 첫 10년간 발행된 도서들 28권 가운데 20권은 초보적인 기독교의 이해 수준의 교리서와 전도문서였으며, 그보다 한 걸음 나아가 신학 저서로 이해될 수 있는 도서는 4권, 소설이나 사전 등 교양서도 4권 정도 되었다. 또한 1890년부터 출간된 도서들 가운데 첫 14권은 모두 중국의 선교사들이 발행한 도서를 저본으로 삼고 있었으며, 1900년까지의 총 28권 가운데 2/3를 차지하는 17권이 중국어 도서를 저본으로 삼고 있음도 확인하였다. 이것은 초기 10년 동안 서회 출판의 주요 전략이 중국에서 교인들에게 수년간 인정받고 널리 읽힌 도서들을 한국어로 번역하여 출판하는 것으로서, 이로써 한국 선교사들은 시간을 절약할 수 있었다. 그리고 이러한 서적의 번역 출판을 통해 중국의 기독교 용어들이 한국으로 유입되었다.

본 논문은 윤치호가 1885년부터 1888년까지 중국 상해에 머물며 남감리회 미션스쿨인 중서서원에서 수학하던 시기를 그 연구대상으로 삼아, 윤치호가 중서서원에서 받은 근대교육과 종교교육에 대해 살펴보면서, 미션스쿨이 윤치호의 개종에 미친 영향에 대해 고찰해 보는 것을 목표로 하였다. 이에 대해 본 논문은 첫째, 윤치호가 상해에서 수강한 과목들을 당시 중서 서원의 8년 학제에 포함된 교과목들과 비교하면서 윤치호가 그 중 3-6학년 도 과정을 수학한 것을 밝혔으며, 둘째, 중서서원의 종교교육을 검토하면서 중서서원은 세속학교가 아닌 전형적인 미션스쿨로서, 윤치호도 그가 받은 모든 수업에서 성경이 교재로 사용되었고 매일 두 차례씩 종교예식을 갖고 토요일에는 성경강독 수업을 받았음을 살펴보았다. 셋째, 선행연구에서와 달리 윤치호가 처음 예배당에 간 것은 1885년 2월 15일이 아닌 2월 8일이었으며 교회에 데려간 사람은 알렌이 아닌 로얄 선교사였음을 밝혔고, 이를 통해 윤치호가 중서서원에 입학한 직후부터 선교사들의 특별한 선교적 관심을 받았을 가능성이 컸음을 추론하였다. 결국, 윤치호는 윤리적 종교에 대한 개인적 관심 및 근대 사상에 대한 관심에서 스스로 기독교 에 접근하기에 앞서, 이미 미션스쿨의 종교적 학풍과 선교사들의 전략적 전도 과정을 통해 이미 기독교적 환경에 놓이게 되었던 것이었다.

Religious intolerance has become a common feature of many countries in recent times. Studies have revealed a worldwide increase in government regulations and social hostilities against religious beliefs and practices. The stifling impact of both government and society on the market for religion, warrants closer scrutiny. This study examines the relationship between government regulations and social hostilities towards religious beliefs and practices, for the period of 2001-2011 for a sample of 45 European countries. The Generalized Method of Moments dynamic panel estimation technique is employed to analyze the micro panel dataset of 45 European countries, to establish the possible relationships that may exist between these variables. The theoretical framework for this study is based on the Religious Economies Theory and the Supply Side Theory of Religion. The results of this study show evidence of the positive relationship between government regulations and social hostility. Interestingly, the study also revealed that the impact of social hostility on the level of government restrictions is smaller in magnitude compared to the reverse impact of government restrictions on social hostilities, indicating the dangerous role played by governments in inciting social hostilities, when they regulate or restrict religious beliefs and practices.

T. E. 흄은 인간은 본질적으로 선하다는 인간에 대한 “인본주의적 태 도”와 인간은 원죄를 갖고 태어난 본성이 악한, 고정된 그리고 한정된 존재라는 인간 본성에 대한 “종교적 태도”를 대비시킨다. 흄은 인간 본 성에 대한 “종교적 태도”를 가진다. 따라서 흄은 인간을 다스릴 훈련, 질서 그리고 조직이 필요하다고 말한다. 또한 흄은 인간은 불완전하기 에 필연적으로 완전한 존재인 하나님을 믿게 된다고 언급한다. 흄의 영 향으로 흄과 유사한 인간관과 도덕관 그리고 종교관을 갖게 된 T. S. 엘리엇은 「작은 영혼」에서 인간의 한계성을 인정하며 인간이 올바르게 성장하기 위해서는 훈련이나 억제 그리고 기도 같은 초월적 힘이 필요 하다는 도덕적 안내자의 모습을 보여준다. 본고에서는 이런 점에서 결 국은 죽음으로 끝나버리는 허망한 인간의 성장을 흄의 인간에 대한 “종 교적 태도”를 통해 살펴보면서 엘리엇의「작은 영혼」에 그려진 삶에 도 덕적이고 종교적인 의미를 부여해보았다.