THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE LIBERATIONS OF KOREA AND VIETNAM
THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE LIBERATIONS OF KOREA AND VIETNAM

Summary/Abstract: This paper want to examine, why it is important to look at the growth of new religious movements in terms to understand the liberations of Korea and Vietnam from their respective colonial rules. As a methodology, the author introduces first the new religious movements which evolved at the end of the Korean Ri-Dynasty (also known as Joseon-Dyansty), each for its own. After that the same is done for Vietnam after being annexed by France. In a third step, the characteristics of the described religions will be compared, so that one sees the commonalities and differences of the religions of Korea and Vietnam. A comparison between these two countries is meaningful, because both countries stood under Chinese influence and adopted Chinese religions, and both countries were colonized later. As a result, it turned out that both countries sought to get along with the colonial pain and their wish to restore the nation, by reviving native thoughts (without rejecting the well-established Chinese ones) and a nationalist political understanding, declaring their status quo of that time as being corrupted.

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