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Title

Establishing the revolutionary : an introduction to new religions in Japan / edited by Birgit Staemmler and Ulrich Dehn.

Publication

Zürich : Lit, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Staemmler, Birgit, 1967-
• Dehn, Ulrich M., 1954-

Description

viii, 397 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

New Religions in Japan claim millions of members and simultaneously provoke criticism and fulfil social functions. This publication may serve as a handbook about these new religions on the basis of recent research, written by an international range of scholarly experts. The introductory chapters offer general analyses of historical, doctrinal, social, and economic aspects and hence facilitate the understanding of new religions within their overall contexts. Ten religions of major importance are introduced in detail as to their founder, circumstances of foundation, history, doctrine, present situation and activities. These are Ômoto, Seichô no Ie, Sekai Kyûseikyô, Shinnyo-en, Sôka Gakkai, Risshô Kôsei-kai, Mahikari, Kôfuku no Kagaku, Aum Shinrikyô/ Aleph/ Hikari no Wa and Chino Shôhô/ Pana-Wave Laboratory. Other important religious organisations are covered in encyclopedical references.

Series Statement

Bunka wenhua ; Bd. 20

Uniform Title

Bunka wenhua ; Bd. 20.

Alternative Title

Introduction to new religions in Japan

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• History
• Japan > Religion
• Cults > Japan > Case studies

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

New religions -- the history / Birgit Staemmler -- New religions -- the concept of salvation / Shimazono Susumu -- New religions -- a sociological approach / Watanabe Masako -- New religions -- economic aspects / Sakurai Yoshihide -- Ōmoto / Birgit Staemmler -- Seichō no le / Birgit Staemmler -- Sekai Kyūseikyō / Birgit Staemmler -- Shinnyo-en / Monika Schrimpf -- Sōka Gakkai / Ulrich Dehn -- Risshō Kōsei-kai / Ulrich Dehn -- Sekei Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan and Sūkyo Mahikari / Louella Matsunaga -- Kōfuku no Kagaku / Erica Baffelli -- Aum Shinrikyō -- Aleph -- Hikari no Wa / Erica Baffelli and Birgit Staemmler -- Chino Shōhō and the Pana-Wave Laboratory / Salvador Jimenez-Murguia.

ISBN

9783643901521 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 761382491
• SCSB-12849319

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library