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제88회 Setting a Foundation: The Ch’ŏndogyo Religion in the Protectorate Period (1905-1910) and Implications for the Colonial Period

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이번 강연은 캐나다 University of Western ontario Department of History에서 조교수로 계신

Carl Young 선생님께서

 

Setting a Foundation: The Ch’ŏndogyo Religion in the Protectorate Period (1905-1910) and Implications for the Colonial Period

 

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Carl Young 선생님께서는 캐나다 McGill University 역사학 학사, 오스트리아 Australian National University에서 아시아 역사학 석사, 영국 University of London에서 동양·아프리카 학과에서 박사 학위를 받으셨고, University of Western Ontario 역사학과 조교수로 계시며, 현재 규장각한국학연구원에 펠로우로 와계십니다.

 

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Setting a Foundation: The Ch’ŏndogyo Religion in the Protectorate Period (1905-1910) and Implications for the Colonial Period

 

Carl Young (University of Western ontario Department of History 조교수)

 

   Ch’ŏndogyo (Teaching of the Heavenly Way) was a continuation and modernization of the earlier Tonghak (Eastern Learning) movement. It was organized in December 1905, a few weeks after the imposition of the protectorate regime on Korea by the Japanese. Its formation resulted from internal political and leadership conflicts within Tonghak during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Son Pyŏng-hŭi, the Tonghak patriarch, renamed and reorganised his religion to reassert his authority over the movement after several years away from Korea. Much of Ch’ŏndogyo’s early organization occurred during the years that eventually led to the full extinction of Korea’s sovereignty through annexation to Japan in August 1910. This time was also a period of intense social, economic and political change.

   As the recasting of an older religious movement, Ch’ŏndogyo was faced with the issues of continuity from Tonghak and also forging a new identity for the modern age. This presentation will focus on three main areas that Ch’ŏndogyo emphasised in its first five years. Ch’ŏndogyo continued Tonghak’s stress on being an “Eastern” religion, in contrast to Christianity coming from the West. However, it also stressed its openness to modernity, technology, and new education and attempted to combine this with earlier tradition. Finally, it also tried to emphasise its nationalist credentials, mainly to dissociate itself from certain Tonghak followers who had previously worked closely with the Japanese and who were now expelled from the new Ch’ŏndogyo organisation. This led to a complex balancing act of emphasising support for Korean self-strengthening in the face of growing Japanese incursions while making sure not to attract attention from Japanese authorities.

   The foundations that Ch’ŏndogyo established during the protectorate period enabled it to survive into the colonial period. The Japanese considered Ch’ŏndogyo a religious organisation and permitted it to continue its activities, unlike secular political and cultural organisations that were suppressed. Ch’ŏndogyo was able to maintain and even expand its publishing and educational activities during the 1910’s and increase its membership. This would have been difficult to do without the foundation set during the protectorate period and helps explain Ch’ŏndogyo’s important role in the March 1919 independence demonstrations and Ch’ŏndogyo cultural activities in the 1920’s.

 

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