토니 모리슨의 다중 종교적 시각

• 영문명: Toni Morrison’s Multi-Religious Perspectives: from the Viewpoints of African Americans’ Syncretic Theology
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이영철(Young Cheol Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제25집 2호, 143~168쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.08.31

영문 초록

This study discusses Toni Morrison’s religious perspectives from the viewpoints of African-Americans’ syncretic theology. Morrison demonstrates her African American perspectives of religion through her characters, such as Baby Suggs of Beloved and Consolata Sosa of Paradise. In the novels, Morrison leads her readers not only to the origin and process of African-Americans’ syncretic religion but also the theism and soteriology of its theologies and sects, such as liberation, womanist, humanist, messianic-nationalist, conversionist, and thaumaturgy. In Beloved, Baby Suggs becomes an unchurched preacher who personifies African-Americans’ syncretic religion. While instructing the African-American community spiritual survival strategies in the Clearing, she uses not only Christian sermon and gospel but also African-Americans’ traditional rituals, such as ring shouting, circular dancing, and crying. Furthermore, she espouses a doctrine of self-love and self-determined grace which is counter to a Christian ethos, and celebrates flesh as a coequal of spirit. In Paradise, Consolata Sosa is the amalgamation of Christian mercy, womanist theology, and heretic occultism. Consolata heads the convent which is transformed into a woman-centered place. However, under her direction, the convent is open to everybody regardless of racial-sexual-cultural differences. With a heretic message on the fusion of spirit and flesh that is over Christian theology, she leads the convent visitors to share their traumatic experiences and to open the interconnections between them.

목차

I. 머리말

II. 아프리카 전통 종교와 기독교의 혼합물로서 흑인 기독교에 내재된 우머니스트적ㆍ휴머니스트적 구원

III. 아프리카 전통 종교와 가톨릭의 혼합물로서 남미 신흥종교에 내재된 휴머니스트적ㆍ우머니스트적ㆍ신비주의적 구원

IV. 맺음말

인용문헌

키워드

토니 모리슨 흑인 기독교 혼합주의적 종교 우머니스트 신학 휴머니스트 신학 Toni Morrison black Christianism syncretic religionism womanist theology humanist theology