• 제목/요약/키워드: Religious Language

검색결과 82건 처리시간 0.023초

영적 성숙을 증진하는 종교적 언어의 교육 (Teaching Religious Language to Nurture Spiritual Development)

  • 레니 드 아시스
    • 기독교교육논총
    • /
    • 제65권
    • /
    • pp.9-27
    • /
    • 2021
  • 종교적 언어의 학습은 아동의 영적 성숙을 위해서 중요하다. 아동이 거룩함을 말하는 것이 격려되는 상황 속에서는 아동의 동료 관계, 하나님과 자연의 건강한 관계를 형성하는 역량이 강화된다. 종교교육가의 윤리적 당위성은 종교를 가르치며 삶의 경험을 긍정적으로 갱신하는 과정 속에서 확보된다. 특히, 종교교사는 언어적, 인지적, 그리고 영적 발달을 저해하는 교리적 훈육에 저항해야 하는 책무에 능동적으로 반응할 필요가 있다. 문화적 영향은 아동의 신비와 탐구, 자아발견의 계발에 긍정적인 역할을 한다. 문화적 접근을 통해서 종교교사는 아동에게 종교적 언어를 가르치고 의미-형성과 표현을 위한 도구로 활용이 가능하다.

이스라엘의 구소련 유대인 이주자들의 문화정체성 연구 - 1990년대 이주한 뉴커머들의 언어 사용과 종교 수용을 중심으로 (A Study on Cultural Identities of Jewish Immigrants from Former Soviet Union in Israel : Focused on the Language Use and Acceptance of Religion of the Newcomers who immigrated during the 1990s)

  • 최아영
    • 비교문화연구
    • /
    • 제38권
    • /
    • pp.297-329
    • /
    • 2015
  • Since 1989 about one million Jews from Former Soviet Union have immigrated to Israel. Now Russian speaking Jews are the second largest ethnic groups after the Israeli Jews who were born in Israel. Although FSU Jews have returned to their ethnic homeland, they continue to live as 'foreigners' due to a cultural distance between sending and receiving society, such as, lack of knowledge about Jewish tradition and religious practice and low level of Hebrew proficiency. Because of this reason FSU immigrants tend to continue remain strong ties with Russian language and culture. There are several reasons for such a relatively slow process of language shift of FSU Jewish immigrants, the language shift to Hebrew. Firstly, majority of FSU immigrants moved to Israel since the 1990s are older than 45. Secondly, their first residences in Israel are mostly located in small and mid-sized cities, where the proportion of Russian speaking immigrants is more than 30%. And finally they consider Russian culture is 'superior' to Israel's Levantine culture. For many Jewish diasporic communities, Judaism was a dominant factor for self-consciousness, but because of Soviet regime, aimed to break all the religious institution including Jewish, Soviet Jewry was uprooted from their religious traditions. Besides about 30% of FSU immigrants are not defined as Jews by the Jewish religious law(Halakhah). And many of them are reluctant to convert to Judaism. FSU Jewish immigrant agree that Israel must be a Jewish state, but for them 'Jewish' does not include religious elements. FSU immigrants consider that religious affiliation of citizens of Israel should not affect their civic rights.

A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam

  • Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh
    • 수완나부미
    • /
    • 제15권1호
    • /
    • pp.149-180
    • /
    • 2023
  • This article explores religious responses to significant cultural and social change in a northern Vietnamese delta village from 1996 to 2008-the second decade after de-collectivization. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in both the village and surrounding religious networks, the article teases out the meanings of the new religious movements for northern rural people in the new era of market economy; the symbols, language, and metaphoric resources people used in response to their uncertainty and mistrust of the new social landscape; and the unintended consequences of rapid societal development such as marginalization, tensions, and social disintegration. The article argues that as in milleniarism elsewhere, new religious movements in northern rural Vietnam embody unorthodox syncretism between world religious and local traditions, thus linking past, present, and future. However, when drawing upon a common reservoir of memories and experiences to cope with risks and challenges of the new market world, local people not only drew on the power and imperial metaphor of deities in their traditional religion and belief, but became more creative to recuperate meanings, standards, and symbols from revolutionary discourse to reorient themselves, and overcome alienation and marginalization.

A New Challenge to Korean American Religious Identity: Cultural Crisis in Korean American Christianity

  • Ro, Young-Chan
    • 대순사상논총
    • /
    • 제18권
    • /
    • pp.53-79
    • /
    • 2004
  • This paper explores the relationship between Korean immigrants to the United States and their religious identity from the cultural point of view. Most scholarly studies on Korean immigrants in the United States have been dominated by sociological approach and ethnic studies in examining the social dimension of the Korean immigrant communities while neglecting issues concerning their religious identity and cultural heritage. Most Korean immigrants to America attend Korean churches regardless their religious affiliation before they came to America. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the fact that Korean church has provided a necessary social service for the newly arrived immigrants. Korean churches have been able to play a key role in the life of Korean immigrants. Korean immigrants, however, have shown a unique aspect regarding their religious identity compared to other immigrants communities in the United States. America is a nation of immigrants, coming from different parts of the world. Each immigrant community has brought their unique cultural heritage and religious persuasion. Asian immigrants, for example, brought their own traditional religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism. People from the Middle Eastern countries brought Islamic faith while European Jews brought the Jewish tradition. In these immigrant communities, religious identity and cultural heritage were homo genously harmonized. Jewish people built synagogue and taught Hebrew, Jewish history, culture, and faith. In this case, synagogue was not only the house of worship for Jews but also the center for learning Jewish history, culture, faith, and language. In short, Jewish cultural history was intimately related to Jewish religious history; for Jewish immigrants, learning their social and political history was indeed identical with leaning of their religious history. The same can be said about the relationship between Indian community and Hinduism. Hindu temples serve as the center of Indian immigrantsin providing the social, cultural, and spiritual functions. Buddhist temples, for that matter, serve the same function to the people from the Asian countries. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetans, and Thais have brought their respective Buddhist traditions to America and practice and maintain both their religious faith and cultural heritage. Middle Eastern people, for example, have brought Islamic faith to the United States, and Mosques have become the center for learning their language, practicing their faith, and maintaining their cultural heritage. Korean immigrants, unlike any other immigrant group, have brought Christianity, which is not a Korean traditional religion but a Western religion they received in 18th and 19th centuries from the West and America, back to the United States, and church has become the center of their lives in America. In this context, Koreans and Korean-Americans have a unique situation in which they practice Christianity as their religion but try to maintain their non-Christian cultural heritage. For the Korean immigrants, their religious identity and cultural identity are not the same. Although Korean church so far has provides the social and religious functions to fill the need of Korean immigrants, but it may not be able to become the most effective institution to provide and maintain Korean cultural heritage. In this respect, Korean churches must be able to open to traditional Korean religions or the religions of Korean origin to cultivate and nurture Korean cultural heritage.

  • PDF

A Symphony of Language

  • Kim, Chin W.
    • 인문언어
    • /
    • 제2권2호
    • /
    • pp.5-50
    • /
    • 2002
  • This paper aims to illustrate and illuminate the relationship between language and its neighbor disciplines, in particular between language and literature, language and religion, and language and music. 1. Language and literature. Literature is an art of language. Therefore, linguistics, the science of language, should be able to explain how the grammar of literature elevates and ordinary language into a literary language. I illustrate poetic syntax with examples from Shelley, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. 2. Language and religion. I show how a linguistic analysis of a religious text can illuminate the background, authorship, chronology, etc., of a religious text with an example from the Book of Daniel. I also illustrate how a misanalysis of a poetic meter led to a mistranslation with an example from the Book of Psalms. 3. Language and music. First I trace an epochal event in the history of the Western music, i.e., the change of the musical style from the liturgical music of Latin in which the rhythm was created by the alternation of syllable duration into the liberated music of German in which the rhythm was generated by the alternation of lexical stress. I then illustrate a parallelism between linguistic and musical structures with several musical pieces including Gregorian chant, the 16th century music of Palestrina, the 17th century music of Schutz, the 18th century music of Mozart, and the 19th century Viennese music. Finally, the importance of text-tune (verse-melody) association is discussed with examples of mismatches in translated Korean hymns and contemporary Korean lyrical songs. In the concluding part, I speculate on some factors that are responsible for the same organizational devices in three different modes of human communication. An answer may be that all are under the same laws of mind that govern the way man perceives and organizes nature, i.e., the same cognitive abilities of man, in particular, the capacity to organize and impose structure on their respective inputs.

  • PDF

유럽의 관점에서 조망하는 희망의 언어 (Language of Hope in Europe)

  • 모니크 반 디쥬 그뢰느보에르;마이클 오파트리뉘;에바 에쉐르
    • 기독교교육논총
    • /
    • 제65권
    • /
    • pp.29-54
    • /
    • 2021
  • 유럽에서 종교, 문화 언어, 그리고 역사적 배경의 다양성은 거대하다. 이차세계대전과 소비에트연합은 유럽에서 커다란 역할을 한다. 다른 대륙에서 난민의 유입은 다원주의를 증가시킨다. 종교교육은 이러한 차이의 다리 역할에 주목한다. 유럽 대륙에서 언어는 매우 다양하다. 나라와 발음, 심지어 개별 국가에서도 차이가 있다. 이것은 문화 감수성과 세대 간의 집단별 차이를 발생시킨다. 중등교육은 청소년들이 그들 사회에 대한 견고한 뿌리를 내리는 인격 형성의 중요한 역할을 한다. 중등교육에서 청소년의 핵심 가치와 문화적 기반을 검증하는 학습은 필수적이다. 종교교육의 핵심은 그러한 가치를 검토하는 것이다. 그러나 학교는 현재 점차 증가하는 학생들의 비종교성에 적응해야 하는 도전에 직면하고 있다. 종교적 가치는 이러한 상황 속에서 어떠한 역할을 하는가? 학생들은 종교 기관에 적극적으로 참여하는 것에 대해서 어떠한 느낌을 가지는가? 그리고 종교적 신념에 대한 삶의 선택에 대해서 어떠한 생각을 가지는가? 비종교적 가치가 가치 기반의 인격을 지닌 타자의 인격적 기초를 형성하는 것을 파악할 수 있는가? 비종교적 가치는 가치 기반의 인격 형성의 기초를 형성할 수 있는가? 이러한 주제에 대한 연구는 네덜란드에서 20년 이상 지속해 온 것이다. 그리고 현재 체코슬로바키아와 동독 지역으로 확산되고 있다. 이러한 주제는 세속화된 나라에서 그리고 다른 역사에서도 현저하다. 역사와 이러한 국가의 상황은 학습자들에게 중요한 가치를 보여주고 그들의 역할을 가시화한다. 비교 연구는 이러한 유럽 국가의 학습자의 가치를 검토하는 것에 보다 폭 넓은 관점을 제공한다. 이러한 지식은 종교 기반의 세계관 교육의 형성과 계획에 도움이 된다.

말과 소리 저 너머 -『대성당의 살인』의 언어고찰 (Beyond Words and Sounds: A Study on the Language of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral)

  • 김한
    • 영어영문학
    • /
    • 제55권4호
    • /
    • pp.539-565
    • /
    • 2009
  • T. S. Eliot attempted the combining of the liturgy of Anglican Church and a drama in Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and created a modern verse drama which comes most close to the regular tragedy like Greek tragedy today. Eliot chose the drama to deliver his religious insight because of its ritualistic origin and its potentiality to deliver a dramatic world which can contain a complete order. The central theme of this play is the martyrdom. The dramatic action of killing the archbishop Thomas Beckett in this play, however, is not treated as important event enough to be a dramatic climax. He is portrayed as a witness to the reality of God's will rather than a man who wills to give up his own life for any religious belief or cause. In Eliot, a martyr is nothing but "a witness" in its ancient sense. This paper purposes to review the language of this play. The various and new meters and rhythms of the language of this play function enough to bring its playwright to encounter 'the real audience' in 'a living theatre'. The interactions between different verbal models also play a big role to make this play a living theatre. Eliot found the poetry which crosses the various classes and levels of the tastes of audience is the most useful poetry. And the poetry of this play proves as the very thing which intensifies the theme of the play and gives the most powerful force to the play. Especially Eliot's poetry succeeds smost in the various and free meters of chorus, which makes Eliot the first playwright since Aeschylus, who could bring the chorus to undertake the function of extending the dramatic action of the play into the universal meaning. In the theatre the real audience identifies themselves with chorus. And the chorus leads the audience to respond to peace which passeth understanding beyond words and sounds of this play, which is the desired response in Eliot's conception of drama.

해원 개념의 용례와 종교적 전환 (Usages and Religious Takes on the Concept of Haewon)

  • 고병철
    • 대순사상논총
    • /
    • 제39집
    • /
    • pp.1-32
    • /
    • 2021
  • 이 연구의 목적은 해원(解冤)의 용례를 검토하고, 그 개념적 변화를 살펴보는 데에 있다. 이 목적을 달성하기 위해 조선시대(제2장)와 일제강점기의 해원 용례들(제3장), 그리고 『전경』과 주요 선행연구의 내용(제4장)을 검토하였다. 조선시대부터 대순진리회에 이르기까지 해원의 용례와 개념적 변화를 고찰한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 해원은 역사성, 사회성, 문화성을 지닌 용어이다. 이는 해원이 조선시대 이후부터, 그리고 개인적 차원뿐만 아니라 집단적 문제를 해소하는 차원에서도 사용된 용어였다는 것을 의미한다. 또한 문화를 집단적 의식이나 물질적 산물로 본다면, 해원은 사회적·문화적 열망을 담은 용어였다. 둘째, 해원은 역사적으로 동일한 개념이 아니다. 이는 해원 개념의 적용 범위가 문제 영역(법적 영역, 자연재해 영역, 제도 영역 등)에 따라 달랐다는 점, 그리고 일제강점기에 일상 언어와 종교 언어로서의 해원 개념의 적용 범위가 달라졌다는 점에서 확인할 수 있다. 셋째, 해원은 증산의 등장 이후에 교리 체계에 담긴 종교 언어로 전환된다. 조선시대에 해원이 주로 일상 언어로서 법적 차원에서 죽은자와 산자의 원통함을 드러냈다면, 증산의 등장 이후에는 해원이 초인간적 존재에 의한 선천의 혼란 해소와 후천이라는 변혁된 세계의 등장을 매개하는 교리적 차원의 종교 언어가 된 것이다. 이어, 『전경』과 대순진리회의 선행연구들은 해원 개념이 교리적 차원에서 정교해졌다는 것을 보여준다. 이러한 연구 결과는 해원 개념에 담긴 사유의 역사적 전환을 보여준다. 해원은 교리 체계에 포함된 종교 언어로서, 원통함을 푼다는 내포를 유지하면서도 개인과 사회를 넘어 세계라는 외연으로 확장된다. 그리고 이러한 해원 개념은 교리 체계에서 세계의 변혁을 매개하고, 이러한 변혁의 과정에서 수련과 윤리적 실천 등이 필요하다는 사유를 지속적으로 창출한다.

Determinants of Success of University Students in Vietnam: An Empirical Study

  • NGUYEN, Lan T.N.;THAN, Thao T.;NGUYEN, Tan G.
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
    • /
    • 제7권10호
    • /
    • pp.1057-1070
    • /
    • 2020
  • This paper investigates the determinants of students' success in Vietnam through conducting online interviews and surveys with 2,500 Vietnamese students at eight famous universities in Vietnam. By applying both SPSS 22 and STATA software, the study is to evaluate the impact of four driver factors, which affect GPA, language efficacy, and personal achievement. These factors are psychological perspective, home environmental, student demographic, and school environmental. The research results emphasize a positive effect of psychological and home-environmental determinants, but the negative effect of school environmental factors on the students' success. Besides, the relationship between demographics and student success was tested and indicated that male students have a better language learning ability, but a low level of academic achievement than female students. The results also point out the impact of religious affiliation and ethnicity on personal achievement. Non-religious students are better achievers than those having a religion or those in minority ethnicity. Moreover, accumulated schooling years are negatively associated with students' success. The more working experience students accrued, the higher possibility they are successful. Finally, the finding provides an insight into students' success that might be useful to government authorities and other universities in designing policies for enhancing the quality of education.

칼 슈미트의 『햄릿, 또는 헤큐바』 -정치적 재현과 주권의 문제 (Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba: Political Representation and the Problem of Sovereignty)

  • 장선영
    • 영어영문학
    • /
    • 제58권5호
    • /
    • pp.975-999
    • /
    • 2012
  • This paper interrogates what a new point Schmitt shows concerning the problem of sovereignty in Hamlet or Hecuba in comparison with his Political Theology. Schmitt reveals his political stand on sovereignty through ‘political representation’ that connects the politics to the aesthetics in Hamlet or Hecuba since Hamlet is above all aesthetic work as play. He stresses the determining effect of political reality over the play as he links the story of Hamlet to the tragic family of James I and the religious conflicts of the Stuart dynasty. This leads to, on the one hand, supporting the myth of absolute sovereignty by elevating Hamlet to the transcendental and the exceptional status of sovereign. However, Schmitt’s intent over the absolute sovereignty is, on the other hand, demolished with the two shadows that he scrutinized through the couple of Hamlet and James I: first, the suspect that Gertrude(Mary Stuart) was involved in the murder of Hamlet(James I)’s father, and second, the century’s conflicts with religious reformation and civil war. The perils of sovereignty are manifested not only in these two, “the taboo of the Queen,” and “the Hamletization of the avenger.” It is most of all evidenced in Hamlet itself that subverts the unconditional sovereignty consistently. Hamlet’s selfreflective remarks likening the king to the beggar and the reality of Denmark succession prove that Hamlet’s political discourse is totally different from the politics that accentuates the divine sovereignty.