한국불교와 현대적 사회제도의 만남

A Study on the Encounter of Korean Buddhism and Modern Social Institutions

  This study begins with the presupposition that so called "indigenous modernity" in three world societies is different from the western European modernity, and tries to understand "indigenous modernity" since 1945 in Korea from the perspective of "interdependently originated one". To achieve this purpose, firstly we reviewed critically Weber"s thesis that Buddhism impeded the modernization of Asian societies and Bellah"s argument in which Japanese society has the advantage condition of industrial development to rationalize the polity and subordinate other values to it. modernization. Secondly, we scrutinized the interaction between Korean Buddhism and modern social institutions and investigated configurations of Korean religions. Here we conceptualized the result of this interactions and configurations as "indigenous modernity". Finally, we argued that new perspectives is necessary to understand the "indigenous modernity" and suggested alternatively the perspective of inter-dependently originated one.