Glodman의 宗敎槪念을 통한 學生들의 宗敎的 思考 發達에 關한 調査硏究

Abstract

영문초록 수록|The major purpose of this study is to clarify how children form the religious concept through church education. Accordingly, the problem was set that children's concept of religion varies according to the factor of children's background after providing a theoretical basis by reference to the literature related to this study. To obtain the answer to these problems, the following hypotheses were set; <Hypothesis 1> There would be difference in the recognition of the concept of religion in accordance with children's gender. <Hypothesis 2> There would be a difference in the recognition of the concept of religion by age. <Hypothesis 3> Current education would not be performed in accordance with the cognitive development theory of children's religion. The tool used to test these hypotheses is the questionnaire adapted to suit Korean children by using the tools and methods used in the study by Goldman on the development of religious thinking. This modified questionnaire was distributed to 360 children between 6 and 19 years of age in 6 churches belonging to two religious orders of both the combined side and the integrated side resident in the southern area of Kangwon Province and those questionnaires were recovered from 325 children. To test these hypotheses, Chi-square(X²) was used as a statistic treatment method, and the test of significance was made at the level of P<0.05 and 0.001. The findings were gained as follows : 1) It was revealed that there is partially a significant difference between children in Hypothesis 1. 2) As a result of testing the difference in children's concept of religion in accordance with age, it was revealed that there is partially a significant difference. 3) As a result of testing the hypothesis that current education would not be performed in accordance with the cognitive development theory of children's religion, it was revealed that current education is not performed that does not suit children. These facts can be summarized by dividing them into five items, and their concrete contents are as follows : (1) The first is the result on the concept of the Bible. Children in the preoperational period may be aware of the essence of the Bible, but recognize the Bible only in terms of its external form. Seeing that children in this period of time see the Bible as the uninteresting book, they might have a wrong view of the Bible. Children in the concrete operational period have a high degree of awareness of the essence of the Bible, but do not recognize the Bible by having a complete understanding of the Bible from a perspective of the current point of time. Children in a formal operational period have a correct thinking of the concept of the Bible by breaking away from confusion and accept everything about the Bible. It can be seen that children in this period shape their internal attitudes and practice deductive and inductive methods in thinking. (2) The second is children's awareness relating to how far children understand the concept of God. Children in a preoperational period can not think the Trinity and perceive that God is the figure that protect them from evils. Children are not complete regarding the temporary concept or spatial concept, and strongly shows only external thinkings concerning omnipresence, role, fellowship, and low. Children in concrete operational period do not have a complete understanding of the dogma of the Trinity, and in this period of time they tend to part with a simple view of God. Children in this period of time may use deductive logic or inductive logic, but it range is limited in terms of period of time. Children in a formal operational period are at a stage that they can think without taking advantage of concrete factors. Children in this period can practice a religious thinking and conceive God as the spiritual concept. (3) The third is an understanding of the concept of demons. Children are perceiving Jesus Christ as the Savior and accepting Jesus Christ without confusion. They perceive demons as Satans and recognize that demons tempt us to commit evil things in our lives at present as well. Children in a formal operational period have a high tendency to respond like this. (4) There is not a difference by age regarding the concept of prayer, but it was shown that children are conscious of the importance of prayer on the whole, but it is found that they offer ego-centric prayers. (5) As for the church concept, children perceive that the church is sacred and respond that the church offers us many helps in our living. Accordingly, if children's religious concept is inquired into through Goldman's theory, it was shown that children's religious concept is developed in thinking in accordance with the cognitive development theory of religion.