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South Korea’s Christian Military Chaplaincy in the Korean War - religion as ideology? 朝鮮戦争における韓国軍キリスト教チャプレン制度—イデオロギーとしての宗教
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Tikhonov, Vladimir |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | The present paper examines the military chaplaincy in the context of a problem which has long intrigued researchers, namely the reasons for the rapid growth of the Christian (Protestant and Catholic) churches in 1950-80s South Korea compared to Japan or Taiwan. The author suggests that, whereas a general answer to the question may be the use of Christianity as a de facto state ideology in the years 1948-1960 and its functioning as an ideology of capitalist modernisation in the 1960s-80s, a particularly important part of government-induced Christianization of South Korea was the institution of military chaplaincy. In 1951-1968, Christians – despite being a numerical minority! – monopolized the chaplaincy in the military, and fully utilised this monopoly, “solacing” vulnerable youth forcibly conscripted for military service and making many “church family members”. The loyalties won in such a way, often lasted for life, thus providing the churches with new recruits and the hard-core antiCommunist state – with docile anti-Communismt Christian subjects. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://apjjf.org/-Vladimir-Tikhonov/3935/article.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
