현대 한국에서 주요한 문단 등단 방법 중의 하나는 신춘문예이다. 신춘문예 는 예심을 거쳐 올라온 시들 가운데 한 편을 뽑고 심사평을 발표하는데 심사평 은 ‘올해 투고시의 경향’이나 ‘시에 대한 단상’ 그리고 ‘낙선이유’와 ‘당선이유’ 등을 발표하는 형식으로 이루어진다. 본고의 연구대상 시기인 2000년 이후 약 60여명의 심사자, 약 100명가량의 당선자, 수천 명의 낙선자가 있었다. 시간차 가 있음에도 당선된 시와 심사평에서 발견되는 낙선자나 심사자 그리고 당선자 의 특징은 이들을 단수로 지칭해도 될 만큼 비슷한 양상을 보인다. 그리고 매해 수 천 명의 시인들이 투고하고 있으므로 신춘문예는 지극히 당대적이라고 볼 수 있다. 이러한 인식을 바탕으로 본고는 2000년 이후의 신춘문예 심사평과 당 선작을 통해 신춘문예의 종교현상을 고찰하였다. 그 결과 당선자 낙선자 심사자 는 문학청년들의 강렬한 문학 숭배현상, 통과해야 할 관문으로서의 ‘통과의례’ 라는 의례의 원형을 보여준다는 것을 발견하였다. 나아가 당선된 시들에게서는 ‘신화화의 과정’을 엿볼 수 있었다. 신화화의 과정이란 ‘무서운 아버지,’ ‘소외된 아들들,’ ‘아버지의 쇠퇴,’ ‘아버지 죽이기,’ ‘죄의식과 아버지의 토템화,’ ‘주기 적인 의례로 기억하기,’ ‘또 다른 아버지가 되기’의 신화화 과정을 볼 수 있었다.

This paper is to propose the possibility of new issues in mission studies by examining new religions in a phenomenological way. The phenomenology of religion emphasizes the stopping of value judgment and the empathetic understanding of religious essence. Though scholars in mission studies pay attention to the study of world religions including Islam and Buddhism, they seem to have overlooked the necessity and importance of the study of new religions such as Unification Church and Mormonism. The scholars in the West, especially, the USA, UK, Italy, and Sweden, initiated the study of new religions in order to give proper information on new religions to the public, government, and churches. Anticultist's criticism on new religions often distorted the contents and image of new religion, so we need more objective research on new religions based on the analysis of text analyses, interviews, and field works. The death of Mun Sun Myung(19202012), the founder of the Unification Church, recently increased the public concern to new religions. Considering its influence on Korean society and the world, scholars should study new religions existing in the world. According to tradition, the six classification of new religions is possible: ① Christian tradition, ② Islamic tradition, ③ Asian religious tradition, ④ UFO tradition, ⑤ selfcultivating tradition and ⑥ New age tradition. New religions have different views on religious authority, scriptures, family, and the role of women from existing majority religions. Their mission strategies focus on the youth group and the elite intellectuals seeking for the new meanings through individual contacts and mysterious experiences. Like the case of 1978 mass suicide of the People's Temple, new religions sometimes shows the destructive respect. Therefore, more objective and scientific studies on new religions are necessary for us to protect the security of society and the health of religion from its fanaticism. In conclusion, the author proposes three possible issues related to new religions in mission studies. First, the updated information on new religions is needed. Second, the publication of documents, the training of religious experts, and the establishment of academic institutes on new religions are necessary. Third, rather than theological debate, ethical engagement should be considered.

In this paper, I describe a major religious reason for the church growth of Korea on the basis of my field research and from the point of view of beliefs and practices in the field of phenomenology of religion. To do this project，I prefer to use the categories of phenonomenology of Christianity as described by Peter McKenzie who has adapted the methodology from Friedrich Heiler’ s categories of pheno menology of religion. Before doing this project, however, for better understanding of many forms of contemporary Korean Christianity, a brief historical background of Korean Christianity is needed. Although the methodology of phenomenology of religion I use is largely ahistorical, its application does not deny or reject relevant historical facts for inter pretation. Thus, I intend to develop a preliminary understanding of two contextual aspects that have led to the different kinds of forms within contemporary Christianity in Korea: the socio-political aspect and the religious aspect. The socio-political aspect influenced Koreans to follow Westem Christendom, but the religious aspect led Koreans to make their own indigenous or syncretistic folk Christianity.