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Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan
Contributor(s): Hardacre, Helen (Author)

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 ISBN: 0691020485     ISBN-13: 9780691020488
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 1988
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Annotation: Adherents of several hundred groups known as "new religions" include roughly one-third of the Japanese population, but these movements remain largely unstudied in the West. To account for their general similarity, Helen Hardacre identifies a common world view uniting the new religions. She uses the example of Kurozumikyo, a Shinto religion founded in rural Japan in 1814, to show how the new religions developed from older religious organizations. Included in the book are a discussion of counseling that portrays the many linked functions of rural churches, an autobiographical life history by a woman minister, and a case study of healing.
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Shintoism
- Religion | History
- History | Asia - Japan
Dewey: 299.561
LCCN: 85043287
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.53" W x 8.48" L (0.60 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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