JDTREA (Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of East Asia)

About The Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of East Asia

Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of East Asia is a peer-reviewed, academic journal published in English by the Daesoon Academy of Sciences. In 1992, Daesoon Academy of Sciences was established at Daejin University. The goal of the academy is to stimulate dialogue and exchange ideas, theories, and perspectives among scholars in both Asia and the West, by publishing cutting-edge articles in all subfields of Daesoon Studies and the Religions of East Asia. JDTREA was first published in 2021. JDTREA is widely recognized by scholars as one of the leading English-language journals in the field of Daesoon Studies.
Editorial

Mar 30, 2022

EDITOR’S PREFACE

Carole M. CUSACK

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):9-10.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.9
Original Article

Mar 30, 2022

Disseminating Daesoon Thought: A Comparative Analysis

George D. CHRYSSIDES

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):13-39.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.13

The author examines three new religious movements in South Korea: Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Unification Church, and the Daesoon Jinrihoe, and aims to identify the factors that are conducive to the growth of each. All three organisations believe in a coming paradise, and the article explores their respective attempts to interest the populace in their appeal. Discussion is given to membership statistics and the problems of measuring allegiance and moves on to consider methods of propagation. Most obviously, evangelisation strategy is important: ...
Original Article

Mar 30, 2022

Vietnamese Syncretism and the Characteristics of Caodaism’s Chief Deity: Problematising Đức Cao Đài as a ‘Monotheistic’ God Within an East Asian Heavenly Milieu

Christopher HARTNEY

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):41-59.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.41

Caodaism is a new religion from Vietnam which began in late 1925 and spread rapidly across the French colony of Indochina. With a broad syncretic aim, the new faith sought to revivify Vietnamese religious traditions whilst also incorporating religious, literary, and spiritist influences from France. Like Catholicism, Caodaism kept a strong focus on its monotheistic nature and today Caodaists are eager to label their religion a monotheism. It will be argued here, however, that the syncretic nature of this new faith complicates this claim to a si...
Original Article

Mar 30, 2022

Incarnation and Divine Essence in Daesoon Thought: A Comparative Study between Daesoon thought and Christianity

Bernadette RIGAL-CELLARD

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):61-87.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.61

This article compares the concepts of divine incarnation as expounded in Daesoon Thought and in Christianity and questions the essence of the divinity in both traditions. In Daesoon Thought, The Supreme God, Sangje, saw major disorganization leading to extreme violence and doom and decided to incarnate on earth under the human form of Kang Jeungsan (1871–1909). Then the living God taught the solution to human suffering through the revelations he sent in 1917 to Jo Cheol-Je, or Jo Jeongsan (1895–1958) and the revelations were passed on to Do...
Original Article

Mar 30, 2022

Daesoon Thought as the Source of Daesoon Jinrihoe’s Social Work

Rosita ŠORYTĖ

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):89-114.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.89

Both in Korea and internationally, many know and appreciate Daesoon Jinrihoe for its social work in the three main areas of education, social welfare and health care, and charity aid. The article surveys Daesoon Jinrihoe’s activities in these three areas and proposes a comparison with the charitable and ecological work performed by the Taiwanese Buddhist charity (and new religious movement) Tzu Chi, the peace activities of Soka Gakkai, and the projects developed in Bhutan to implement the policy of Gross National Happiness. Tzu Chi is mostly ...
Original Article

Mar 30, 2022

The Spreading of Caodaism to Taiwan: Man’s Will versus Divine Will

Tuan Em NGUYEN

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):115-132.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.115

Caodaism officially came into existence in 1926 in Southern Vietnam and soon became a spiritual phenomenon, in the sense of spiritual and social influence. Despite being sandwiched between political forces and ruling governments, Caodaism steadily grew far beyond its national boundary. After 95 years, Caodaism eventually reached Taiwan when a new small Cao Đài Congregation, approved by top Cao Đài Dignitaries in Vietnam, was established in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City by a group identifying as ‘Vietnamese New Immigrants’ in Taiwan. ...
Original Article

Mar 30, 2022

Traditions of Western Rhetoric and Daesoon Jinrihoe: Prolegomena to Further Investigations

Brian FEHLER

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):133-157.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.133

Applying the long and distinguished heritage of rhetorical theory to any sacred text, such The Canonical Scripture of Daesoon Jinrihoe, could fill many volumes of many books. This study, then, will provide some suggestive prolegomena for directions rhetorical criticism of the Scripture can take, now and in future research. This study will, further, make necessarily broad strokes in order to familiarize audiences and scholars of new Korean religions, and Eastern thought generally, with Western, both ancient and more modern, modes of rheto...
Book Review

Mar 30, 2022

David W. Kim, Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation and Transmission of a New Religion. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. Hardcover. Pp. 406. £67.99.

Massimo INTROVIGNE

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):161-163.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.161
Book Review

Mar 30, 2022

Chang Chia-Lin (張家麟), Chinese Religiosity (華人宗教) GPS3, Taipei: Taiwan Religion and Society Association, 2020, Hardcover. Pp. 224. $523.

Edward IRONS

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):165-170.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.165
Book Review

Mar 30, 2022

David W. Kim (ed.), New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Sociocultural Alternatives (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2020); xix, 285 pp.; ISBN: 978-1-7936-3402-3; Hardback; US $115.00.

Carole M. CUSACK

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):171-173.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.171

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EDITOR’S PREFACE

Carole M. CUSACK

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):9-10.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.9

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Disseminating Daesoon Thought: A Comparative Analysis

George D. CHRYSSIDES

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):13-39.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.13

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Vietnamese Syncretism and the Characteristics of Caodaism’s Chief Deity: Problematising Đức Cao Đài as a ‘Monotheistic’ God Within an East Asian Heavenly Milieu

Christopher HARTNEY

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):41-59.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.41

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Incarnation and Divine Essence in Daesoon Thought: A Comparative Study between Daesoon thought and Christianity

Bernadette RIGAL-CELLARD

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):61-87.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.61

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Daesoon Thought as the Source of Daesoon Jinrihoe’s Social Work

Rosita ŠORYTĖ

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):89-114.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.89

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The Spreading of Caodaism to Taiwan: Man’s Will versus Divine Will

Tuan Em NGUYEN

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):115-132.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.115

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Traditions of Western Rhetoric and Daesoon Jinrihoe: Prolegomena to Further Investigations

Brian FEHLER

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):133-157.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.133

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David W. Kim, Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation and Transmission of a New Religion. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. Hardcover. Pp. 406. £67.99.

Massimo INTROVIGNE

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):161-163.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.161

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Chang Chia-Lin (張家麟), Chinese Religiosity (華人宗教) GPS3, Taipei: Taiwan Religion and Society Association, 2020, Hardcover. Pp. 224. $523.

Edward IRONS

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):165-170.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.165

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David W. Kim (ed.), New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Sociocultural Alternatives (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2020); xix, 285 pp.; ISBN: 978-1-7936-3402-3; Hardback; US $115.00.

Carole M. CUSACK

J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2022;1(2):171-173.
https://doi.org/10.25050/JDTREA.2022.1.2.171

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Jin-gyeong and Sin-ingan: The Prophecy of the Later World in The Canonical Scripture of Daesoon Jinrihoe

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J. Daesoon Thought Relig. East Asia 2021;1(1):127-151.
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Daesoon Jinrihoe in Perspective: New Religions and their Development over Time

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Jo Jeongsan in Context: “Second Founders” in New Religious Movements

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Reflections on Civilization, Modernity, and Religion in Light of the Fellowship of the Truth

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Jo Jeongsan in Context: “Second Founders” in New Religious Movements

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