ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces typologies for non-Western religious culture is exemplified by the ki-training workshop. From these classical typologies of religious association, which took European Christian history as their background, evolved further typologies where other types of religious collectivities are integrated, especially to be adaptable to the American situation. The chapter not treated the Unification Church details and some may be disappointed to discover that large but notorious Korean new religions. In the 1960s the South Korean government proceeded with all-out economic development, and in the 1970s industrialization and urbanization were speeded up. The chapter organizes by Chngsin Segyewon, a well known New Age company, and the other two by the Minaisa Club, which specializes in New Science. Therefore, it is important not to overlook the fact that even though scholars of religion tend to make use of the term "new religion" as a value-neutral technical term, the word is entangled with religious hegemonic judgments.
