Great Opening; church and state relations; gender equality; double project of modernity; Song Kyu; Pak Chungbin; Raimon Pannikar; Karl Marx; Martin Heidegger; Roberto Unger; indigenous Korean religions; Buddhism; Won-Buddhism
摘要
Abstract Addressing the theme of a great turning in civilization, this essay focuses on the Korean religion Won -Buddhism with its founding motto, “With this Great Opening of matter, let there be a Great Opening of spirit.”Both its doctrine and practice arguably possess great potential. Unlike the traditional Buddhist view of enlightenment, Won -Buddhism’ s “Great Opening of spirit”starts from a specific diagnosis of the current time as an age of “Great Opening of matter”and proposes a double project of at once adapting to and overcoming modernity. In this way, it carries on the tradition of Korea’s indigenous religious movements since the midnineteenth century, but by combining that strain with Buddhism as its core doctrine, it achieves a fuller global significance than its predecessors. The essay examines Roberto Unger’s The Religion of the Future for both parallels and divergences, sympathizing with Unger’s emphasis on a religious revolution , but finding his thought essentially confined within the limits of Western metaphysics. Martin Heidegger is brought in to elucidate this point, as is Karl Marx, for comparison and contrast with Won -Buddhism’s diagnosis of and response to modernity. In closing, the essay takes up two Won -Buddhist agendas that are also of global concern: gender equality and the “church and state”relation.
目次
What Kind of a Great Turning? 414 Roberto Unger’s Religion of the Future 422 Won-Buddhism and the Project of a “Great Opening of Spirit” 433 Two Won-Buddhist Agendas of Global Concern 442 Gender Equality and the Cultivation of Self-Power 442 “Singlemindedness between Government and Religion,” or Toward a New Relationship between “Church and State” 446
