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Gang Il-sun (Korean: 강일순; Hanja: 姜一淳; November 1, 1871 – June 24, 1909), [3] [4] also known as Kang Il-sun and known to his followers as Kang Jeungsan (Korean: 강증산; Hanja: 姜甑山), is the founder of Jeungsanism, a Korean religious movement that generated after his death around one hundred different new religions, [5] including Daesoon Jinrihoe and Jeung San Do.
A mudang holding a gut to placate the angry spirits of the dead.. With the division of Korea into two states in 1945, the communist north and the anti-communist south, the majority of the Korean Christian population that had been until then in the northern half of the peninsula, [12] fled to South Korea. [13]
In the heyday of the Goryeo Dynasty, Buddhism was the state religion of Korea. A significant religious historical event of the Goryeo period is the production of the first woodblock edition of the Tripiṭaka called the Tripitaka Koreana. Two editions were made, the first one completed from 1210 to 1231, and the second one from 1214 to 1259.
Handbook of Religion and Health is a scholarly book about the relation of spirituality and religion with physical and mental health. Written by Harold G. Koenig , Michael E. McCullough , and David B. Larson, the first edition was published in the United States in 2001.
The Republic of Korea is a member party to the UN multilateral treaty International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which provides that every individual has the right and freedom to adopt a religion or belief of his/ her choice and to manifest his/ her religion or belief either individually or in community with others, either in public or private (article 18), every individual ...
This is a partial list of religious groups in Korea This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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Jeungsanism (Korean: 증산교; RR: Jeungsangyo) is an English word with two different uses: [1] as a synonym of Jeung San Do (증산도), a Korean new religious movement, [2] or to designate a family of more than 100 Korean new religious movements that recognize Kang Jeungsan (Gang Il-Sun) as the incarnation of the Supreme God of the Universe, Sangje.