코로나19 이후 20대 여성 자살률 증가에 대한 사회적 요인과 목회신학적 성찰

Abstract

COVID-19 has exposed many of the problems facing our society. COVID-19 has clearly revealed the contradictions and absurdities of modern society, including the climate crisis, ecosystem issues, the debate between communitarianism and individualism, the gap between rich and poor, and the anti-Asian racism. Among them, the researcher’s interest is the suicide rate of women in their 20s, which has increased sharply in our society since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. Why does a woman in her 20s choose to die in times of social upheaval? With this question in mind, researchers attempt a religious and sociological approach to understanding increasing suicide rates among women in their 20s during the COVID-19 era. This study has the following structure. First of all, we will closely analyze the phenomenology of suicide among women in their twenties that occurred following the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Then, based on Durkheim’s Suicide Theory in religious and sociological terms, it will be revealed that the surge in suicide rates among women in their 20s is not an individual problem, but a response to a number of social factors. Moving on to the theological aspect, we will emphasize human responsibility by introducing criticism of theological theory, which can be called the theological answer to pain, as well as a suggestion of something to replace it.