Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691221561
The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming.
Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1988-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691020488
The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming.
Author : Peter B Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136828729
Since the 1960s virtually every part of the world has seen the arrival and establishment of Japanese new religious movements, a process that has followed quickly on the heels of the most active period of Japanese economic expansion overseas. This book examines the nature and extent of this religious expansion outside Japan.
Author : 忠明·黒住
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780742503427
These stories about Kurozumi Munetada (1780-1850) show us a spirituality for everyday living. He was a Japanese priest, poet and healer who looked to the needs of all humankind. We see in them Shinto affirmation of life, for he was a healer of both spirit and body. He was a teacher, showing people of all walks of life the Confucian emphasis on sincerity as the principle of true life. The key to both sincerity and health is overcoming egoistic attachment, a basic teaching of the Buddhist side of Japanese culture. Making it all possible is devotion to Amaterasu the Kami of the sun, who entered his life in a moment of ecstatic unity and who may be realized in each moment of anyone's life as the source of happiness and vigor. His ability to show how that is so drew thousands to his side in his lifetime, sparking a movement that continues to this day in the Kurozumikyo Shinto denomination.
Author : Peter B. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134241453
An excellent and very timely update on an area seeing many recent developments.
Author : Erica Baffelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1350086533
“This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book examines the trajectory and development of the Japanese religious movement Agonshu and its charismatic founder Kiriyama Seiyu. Based on field research spanning 30 years, it examines Agonshu from when it first captured attention in the 1980s with its spectacular rituals and use of media technologies, through its period of stagnation to its response to the death of its founder in 2016. The authors discuss the significance of charismatic leadership, the 'democratisation' of practice and the demands made by movements such as Agonshu on members, while examining how the movement became increasingly focused on revisionist nationalism and issues of Japanese identity. In examining the dilemma that religions commonly face on the deaths of charismatic founders, Erica Baffelli and Ian Reader look at Agonshu's response to Kiriyama's death, looking at how and why it has transformed a human founder into a figure of worship. By examining Agonshu in the wider context, the authors critically examine the concept of 'new religions'. They draw attention to the importance of understanding the trajectories of 'new' religions and how they can become 'old' even within their first generation.
Author : Peter Bernard Clarke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9780415257480
This volume provides a complete guide to the global impact and cultural significance of new religious movements.
Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1999-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520216547
Abortion has been practiced throughout Japanese history and, since its postwar legalization, has come to be widely accepted. Its legal status is not under attack. Contemporary religious groups do not mobilize against it, nor do political parties compose their platforms around the issue. Yet in the 1970s religious entrepreneurs across all doctrinal boundaries mounted a surprisingly successful tabloid campaign to popularize a religious ritual for aborted fetuses called mizuko kuyo. Using images derived from fetal photography, they published frightening accounts of fetal wrath and spiritual attacks, prompting many women to seek ritual atonement for abortions performed even decades earlier.
Author : Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691224234
Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan's intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America. Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Skillfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind.
Author : Hugo Córdova Quero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317006941
Japan has witnessed the arrival of thousands of immigrants, since the 1990s, from Latin America, especially from Brazil and Peru. Along with immigrants from other parts of the world, they all express the new face of Japan - one of multiculturality and multi-ethnicity. Newcomers are having a strong impact in local faith communities and playing an unexpected role in the development of communities. This book focuses on the role that faith and religious institutions play in the migrants' process of settlement and integration. The authors also focus on the impact of immigrants' religiosity amidst religious groups formerly established in Japan. Religion is an integral aspect of the displacement and settlement process of immigrants in an increasing multi-ethnic, multicultural and pluri-religious contemporary Japan. Religious institutions and their social networks in Japan are becoming the first point of contact among immigrants. This book exposes and explores the often missed connection of the positive role of religion and faith-based communities in facilitating varied integrative ways of belonging for immigrants. The authors highlight the faith experiences of immigrants themselves by bringing their voices through case studies, interviews, and ethnographic research throughout the book to offer an important contribution to the exploration of multiculturalism in Japan.
