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Quantum mechanics, which emerged in the early 20th century, was a revolutionary theory that transformed the paradigm of modern science by presenting a worldview of indeterministic relations that went beyond Newtonian determinism. Religion began to take interest in quantum mechanics because its indeterministic worldview offered a new framework for rethinking the relationship between divine order and human consciousness. Previous studies on the relationship between quantum mechanics and religion have mostly focused on philosophical or theological comparisons and the interpretations of individual thinkers. Few have attempted to quantitatively analyze the structural flow of the discourse as a whole. Therefore, this study empirically analyzed the academic discourse on the religious interpretation of quantum mechanics in Korea using text-mining techniques. For this purpose, 186 KCI-listed papers and 89 theses in the humanities from the Research Information Sharing Service (RISS) were collected, focusing on those that interpreted quantum mechanics from a religious perspective. The analysis employed morphological analysis, frequency analysis, Word2Vec-based associative analysis, semantic network analysis, and BERTopic-based topic modeling. The results revealed that the religious discourse on quantum mechanics can be categorized into four major structures: (1)Quantum Ontology and Eastern Religious Discourse, (2)Quantum Epistemology and Consciousness Discourse, (3)Indeterminism and Divine Providence Discourse, and (4)Theology and Science Integration Discourse. These findings demonstrate that the religious interpretation of quantum mechanics is not confined to a single religious tradition but forms a complex discursive structure where Christian theology, Buddhist philosophy, and Eastern thought intersect. The significance of this study lies in its quantitative structuring of the discourse on the religious interpretation of quantum mechanics, moving beyond purely qualitative comparison. Through this approach, the study identifies how quantum mechanics functions not merely as a scientific theory but as a mediating language for generating religious meaning, and it provides a methodological foundation for interdisciplinary convergence research connecting science and religion, as well as Eastern and Western thought.

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• 임석진

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발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  동북아 문화연구 [Journal of North-east Asian Cultures]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3692

• 수록기간

  2001~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 910 DDC 950