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Gang Il-sun | |
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| Born | November 1, 1871[1] |
| Died | June 24, 1909[2] |
| Known for | Founder of a religious movement that is at the origin of around one hundred different Korean new religions |
| Spouse | Jeong Chi-Sun (1874–1928) |
| Children | Yi-Sun (Sun-Im) (daughter, 1904–1959) |
Gang Il-sun (Korean: 강일순; Hanja: 姜一淳; November 1, 1871 – June 24, 1909),[3][4] also known as Kang Il-sun and known to his followers as Kang Jeungsan (Korean: 강증산; Hanja: 姜甑山), is the founder of Jeungsanism, a Korean religious movement that generated after his death around one hundred different new religions,[5] including Daesoon Jinrihoe and Jeung San Do. Jeungsanism, as his movement was called, and various Korean new religions (sinheung jonggyo, literally, "newly emerged religions") derived from it, have been seen by scholars as a syncretism of Buddhism (Bul-gyo), Confucianism (Yu-gyo), Taoism (Do-gyo) with unique religious insights of Kang and certain elements borrowed from Christianity (Gidok-gyo), as well as an underlying Korean shamanism (Musok-Sinang).[6]