scholarly journals The Flourishing of New Religions in Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Massimo Introvigne
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
First Century ◽  
Common Features ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Won Buddhism ◽  
Religious Factors ◽  
Twenty First Century

This issue of Nova Religio explores the success, in several cases spectacular, of different new religions in South Korea, and the controversies they generated. In this introduction I suggest that, notwithstanding their different Christian and non-Christian backgrounds, most Korean new religions share some common features, including messianism, millenarianism, and proposals for social reform. I introduce a typology of four major groupings: Christian new religions, “traditionalist” groups that call for a restoration of Korea’s ancient spirituality, Won Buddhism, and Jeungsanism. Finally, I suggest that both political and religious factors contributed to the flourishing of new religions in twentieth and twenty-first century Korea.

South Korea in the Twenty-First Century

2017 ◽  
pp. 235-245
Author(s):  
Kyung Moon Hwang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

Korean Leadership in the Twenty-First Century

North Korea ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McEachern
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
First Century ◽  
The South ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Twenty First Century

What were the ten years of progressive rule in South Korea? After South Korea’s democratization in the late 1980s, the country continued to be led by conservative presidents until the South Korean populace elected progressive candidate Kim Dae-jung in 1997; he was inaugurated...

Invention in “New New” Religions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole M. Cusack
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Western Society ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Church

This chapter discusses the concept of invention and applies it to the study of New Religious Movements (NRMs). Invention plays a part in all religions and is linked to other conceptual lenses including syncretism and legitimation. Yet invention is more readily detected in contemporary phenomena (so-called “invented,” “hyper-real,” or “fiction-based” religions), which either eschew, or significantly modify, the appeals to authority, antiquity, and divine revelation that traditionally accompany the establishment of a new faith. The religions referred to in this chapter (including Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, and Jediism) are distinctively “new new” religions, appearing from the mid-twentieth century, and gaining momentum in the deregulated spiritual market of the twenty-first century West. Overt religious invention has mainstreamed in the Western society, as popular culture, individualism and consumerism combine to facilitate the cultivation of personal spiritualities, and the investment of ephemeral entertainments with ultimate significance and meaning.

scholarly journals Dialectal speech self–evaluation and vitality: Šakiai and Jurbarkas sub-dialects in the beginning of the twenty-first century

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rima Bakšienė
Keyword(s):  
Small Difference ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
First Century ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dialect Classification ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Distinct Features

Šakiai and Jurbarkas sub-dialects belong to the northern part Western Highlanders of Kaunas region. There is described location of this area in the Lithuanian dialect classification, specific features, dialectal speech self–evaluation and vitality in the beginning of the twenty-first century. According research results Šakiai and Jurbarkas sub-dialects constitute an integral area. there are many common features, this area is transitional to Lowlanders dialect. Dialectal speech self–evaluation is different between two dialects. The Šakiai dialect speakers fully aware of its dialectal dependence, they are able to define its own dialect. However, dialect users note little dialectal features in their own speech, dialectal identity more based on geographical Location and administrative division. The Jurbarkas dialect speakers more fail to identify themselves can not to define its own dialect. The dialect names mostly are made by places of residence names. However, users of this dialect more note dialectal features. Dialectal speech prestige and vitality is high in both sub-dialects. The code switching is uncharacteristic to this area. The least noticeable features are stable, the most noticeable features most disappearing. There are not observed distinct features of the new dialect. High vitality of the dialectal speech is based on small difference from the standard language, not on dialectal prestige or linguistic provisions of dialect speakers.

New Religions and the New Zealand Census

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lewis ◽  
Andreas Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Present Article ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Alternative Religions ◽  
Twenty First Century

From the very beginning of NRM studies, researchers were focused on understanding who joined new religions and why. By the 1980s, we had reached a consensus profile of young, educated converts who joined primarily via social networks. However, by the twenty-first century, the situation on the ground had changed, in part because of the rising age and greater diversity of recruits to alternative religions and in part because of changes resulting from changes such as the emergence of the Internet as a new environment for non-traditional religions. The present article examines data from the New Zealand census to demonstrate the point that the earlier profile of members of non-traditional reached in the 1970s and 1980s has been superseded, and, further, that it is no longer possible to discuss NRM members “in general,” as a class demographically distinct from members of other religious organizations.

Globalization and the decline of social reform: into the twenty-first century

2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (07) ◽  
pp. 38-3964-38-3964
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

Fontane in the Twenty-First Century

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century
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