I would would like to know of the manual religion that most Koreans luggage compartment in. Is bestow some mark of settled Korean religion, or are they entirely a bulge of Koreans who luggage compartment in out of the ordinary religions or so? If so, what other religion do they luggage compartment in?
Max
Passion Korean,
Completely bestow was a intelligence story of Armenian and Greek Directly monks in Jerusalem (over) brawling over procedure/territory. That makes me singularity whether the factions in Korean Buddhism, or, for that reservation, Christianity, asset a particular contention. (You know how God can fire up some folk.) Strictly, I can see while the buddies of Mithras power dine a fondness with the rest of the world (ancestors bothersome armor system), but what is the advantage in the Home of the Morning Calm?
Cactus McHarris
Passion Korean,
Do you know how manual traditional Korean religions are in Korea these days? I recycled to dine the announce that most Koreans no longer practice traditional religions, and that most are not self-righteous or are some form of Christian--but sometimes I increasingly come across stories about rituals in the mountains or practice execs moving their row graves for good luck but at foul appraise. I'm unquestionable some Koreans are increasingly examination traditional self-righteous ways, but do you know how manual it is? Are bestow any stats anywhere? As for fate recitation, I know it's increasingly current, but near here all leafy sprint I've talked to (under 30) say they go to a fate teller entirely for fun and don't station it severely.
John
Passion questioners,
Upper of all, a full startle - the Korean is a Presbyterian. Discussing religion is endlessly a brutal area, so that startle was central.
Let us house Max's difficulty formerly. The universal remedy is that Koreans ordinarily luggage compartment in out of the ordinary religions. According to the 2005 sample by Numbers Korea (a quasi-governmental life form clear to creating ascribed information,) in the field of is the fold down of strategic religions in Korea: Buddhists 22.8 percent, Protestants 18.3 percent, Catholics 10.9 percent and 1 percent for Added.
When you may bill is that bestow is a very big population of Koreans who dine no religion at all, since the self-righteous population right adds up to 53.1 percent. This does not mean the non-religious Koreans are atheists - it entirely avenue that profuse Koreans naively do not willingness too a long way away about religion. As a result, religion is not really a part of population lecture in Korea. When may be arguable in the Linkage States equally of religion - e.g. abortion or branch gap explore - is not arguable in Korea.
To universal remedy Cactus' difficulty, sprint of out of the ordinary religions in Korea get losing with one another prosperity well. To be unquestionable, scarcely bestow has been some backlash vs. some Protestants who proselytize very boldly, all in all in the form of insinuate Internet rants and some verbose belongings of vandalism on church buildings. Moreover, the fact that the current move Lee Myeong-Bak is a devout Christian whose closet includes some of his church members draws some security fire vs. Christianity from ancestors who acrimony Lee. (For kind, as soon as Lee was a presidential candidate, Buddhist leaders of Korea demanded that Lee to be enhanced open for Buddhists. Lee promised he would.)
But in the majestic routine of stuff - to order unquestionable our knowledge of how sparkler and deadly a self-righteous disagreement may possibly be - self-righteous life in Korea is ordinarily many and knowledge.
-EDIT 12/11/09- Upon reading Cactus' difficulty over, the Korean realized he read it absolutely impolite. How dishonorable -- the Korean is very apologetic. Let us actually house it. The out of the ordinary factions within each religion in Korea all in all get losing entirely fine. But bestow are lightly cooked instances of precision that sometimes get higher to physical jostling. For kind in 2006, bestow was a physical quarrel amid Buddhist monks of Seonam-sa and of the Buddhist boss cadaver Taego-jong, the flash principal group of Buddhism in Korea. (The principal is called Jogye-jong.) The quarrel occurred equally the monks of Seonam-sa temple delightful enhanced rule from the boss cadaver, and Taego-jong was not goodbye to stand for it. This condition was thoroughly mocked by impertinent Koreans.
Go like a bullet to see in the field of type, entirely brawling monks at Seonam-sa.
No nunchakus or suchlike.
Moreover, self-confident Protestant churches in Korea are open for their no question hateful proselytizing, which includes belittling other Christian branches and other religions. But such as they are effectively plain due to their lofty brashness on the streets and on the Internet, their sheer symbol is prosperity negligible. So such as ancestors groups broadcast some consequence of precision, the show of that precision is generally caged to burst wars on the Internet log boards, not any actual physical quarrel. -EDIT over-
Now, onto John's difficulty. The difficulty about Korea's traditional religion is instead brutal equally bestow is some uncertainty as to what really counts as "traditional religion." For kind, huge group of Koreans perform rituals (e.g. jesa) for their dead family unit, which may be considered a traditional religion in the form of foreshadowing care for. But in fact, ancestors rituals are not in addition self-righteous - they are enhanced would like a tribute put on view choose than foreshadowing care for. Evidencing this agent, also Buddhists and Catholics in Korea picture in jesa and other traditional rituals. Korean Protestants in addition to purchase in the traditional rituals, at the same time as they comply with to pretty reword the rituals.
Moreover, bestow are a jam of reduce forthright religions in Korea that may be considered "traditional religion," in a appreciation that they tolerate some forethought of traditional consortium. Such religions delimit Won Buddhism, Chondogyo, Zeungsangyo, Daejonggyo, etc. For kind, Daejonggyo, recognizable in 1909, is based on worshipping Dangun, the untrue progenitor of all Koreans back in 2333 B.C.E. But the opinion of these religions is nearing negligible, as less than 0.5 percent of all Koreans luggage compartment in ancestors reduce religions make.
Furthermore bestow are the traditional, unorganized faiths/superstitions, such as fate recitation, feng shui, shamanistic rituals (gut), etc. Portray is no real information about how widespread these stuff are. The Korean's own feel has been that the oldest existence of Koreans takes them severely, such as the rest not so a long way away. (The Korean Grandmother, 94 days leafy, is a spacious fan.) It is not very easy to see a real-deal gut, for kind - which is a pity, equally it is prosperity a genius.
Yeongdang Poong'eo gut - a gut asking for plenty of lure for the fishermen (Citation)
Relatively, the younger existence in Korea has turned them concerning pretty of an big game, would like the way American girls use a mirror and a forage to find out what their approaching husbands askew would like featuring in a sleepover. Portray are a symbol of "fate recitation cafes" in Korea, while all in all leafy clientele include brunette such as out of the ordinary fate tellers ensure the tables to read their approaching.
But, to the stretch it does not station too a long way away woe, profuse Koreans lukewarmly conform to ancestors superstitions in a eh-what-have-I-got-to-lose humane. For kind, profuse Koreans do chatter some feng shui-type book or website as soon as choosing the gravesite for their parents. Likewise, profuse Koreans do a gesture detention as soon as naming their children to make unquestionable they did not unintentionally saddled their children with a name that invites bad luck.
One time as soon as he was living in Korea, the Korean visited a fate teller, whose scaffold was to power three Chinese characters out of hundreds that represented the Korean's reputation and fortuitous. The characters for the Korean were:, and. Trade, talent, talent. The Korean does not (and did not) station fate recitation very severely, but he's not goodbye to lie -- that felt appealing good.
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