Will there be religion in 100 years? - The Future Survival Strategy of Religion

Kim Jong-suk 지음

아우내 2025년 08월 30일 출간

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📘 Book Introduction: Will There Be Religion in 100 Years? The Future Survival Strategy of Religion
By Kim Jong-suk

In an age where science, technology, and globalization are rapidly reshaping the very foundations of human life, one question looms large: Will religion survive the next century?

In Will There Be Religion in 100 Years?, author Kim Jong-suk takes readers on a bold intellectual journey through the past, present, and possible futures of religion. With insights drawn from religious studies, anthropology, theology, and sociology, the book explores the role of religion in human civilization and presents a compelling vision for its survival in the modern era.

Kim begins by diagnosing the crisis of modern religion—from dwindling authority and secularization to the rise of individualistic spirituality. But rather than declaring the death of faith, he argues that humanity’s deep need for meaning, belonging, and transcendence ensures religion’s continued relevance. What is required is not the end of religion, but a new paradigm—a transformation from self-serving institutions to religions centered on altruism, universal values, and social contribution.

The book unfolds in three parts:

Part 1: Diagnosis and Limits of Modern Religion – Why current religions struggle to respond to environmental crises, inequality, and spiritual emptiness.

Part 2: Theoretical Foundations of Future Religion – Five guiding principles for religions that embrace altruism, transcendence-in-action, and human growth.

Part 3: Survival Strategies for Future Religion – Practical steps for building communities of compassion, guiding science with ethics, and fostering interreligious cooperation.

At once scholarly and deeply practical, this book is more than a critique—it is a manifesto for a new civilizational vision. Kim challenges readers to imagine religions that move beyond doctrine and exclusivity, toward a future where faith traditions compete not in numbers of followers, but in acts of love, justice, and service to humanity.

Whether you are a believer, a skeptic, or simply curious about the fate of spirituality in the modern world, this book invites you to reflect on one of humanity’s most urgent questions—and to consider how religion might once again become a force for hope, peace, and transformation in the 21st century and beyond.

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저자(글) Kim Jong-suk