Japanese New Religions

Japanese New Religions
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 0700711856
ISBN-13 : 9780700711857
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Synopsis Japanese New Religions by : Peter Bernard Clarke

Since the 1960s the world has seen the arrival and establishment of new Japanese religious movements, this text examines the nature and extent this religious expansion outside Japan.

Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective

Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781136828720
ISBN-13 : 1136828729
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Synopsis Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective by : Peter B Clarke

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.

New Religions in Global Perspective

New Religions in Global Perspective
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0415257484
ISBN-13 : 9780415257480
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis New Religions in Global Perspective by : Peter Bernard Clarke

This volume provides a complete guide to the global impact and cultural significance of new religious movements.

Bibliography of Japanese New Religions, with Annotations and an Introduction to Japanese New Religions at Home and Abroad

Bibliography of Japanese New Religions, with Annotations and an Introduction to Japanese New Religions at Home and Abroad
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 1873410808
ISBN-13 : 9781873410806
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Bibliography of Japanese New Religions, with Annotations and an Introduction to Japanese New Religions at Home and Abroad by : Peter Bernard Clarke

Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.

New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century

New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9781135889029
ISBN-13 : 1135889023
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Synopsis New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century by : Phillip Charles Lucas

New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent NRM scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first century. An introduction by Tom Robbins provides an overview of the major issues and themes discussed in the book.

Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements

Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781134249787
ISBN-13 : 1134249780
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements by : Peter B Clarke

Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.

Yasukuni Fundamentalism

Yasukuni Fundamentalism
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780824890162
ISBN-13 : 0824890167
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Yasukuni Fundamentalism by : Mark R. Mullins

Although religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic “religions of the book,” this study examines the emergence of a fundamentalism rooted in the Shinto tradition and considers its role in shaping postwar Japanese nationalism and politics. Over the past half-century, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the National Association of Shrines (NAS) have been engaged in collaborative efforts to “recover” or “restore” what was destroyed by the process of imperialist secularization during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Since the disaster years of 1995 and 2011, LDP Diet members and prime ministers have increased their support for a political agenda that aims to revive patriotic education, renationalize Yasukuni Shrine, and revise the constitution. The contested nature of this agenda is evident in the critical responses of religious leaders and public intellectuals, and in their efforts to preserve the postwar gains in democratic institutions and prevent the erosion of individual rights. This timely treatment critically engages the contemporary debates surrounding secularization in light of postwar developments in Japanese religions and sheds new light on the role religion continues to play in the public sphere.

Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan

Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781136819414
ISBN-13 : 113681941X
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan by : Ian Reader

The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufacture of arms and drugs carried out by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, under the guidance of its leader Asahara Shoko. Reader looks at Aum's claims about itself and asks, why did a religious movement ostensibly focussed on yoga, meditation, asceticism and the pursuit of enlightenment become involved in violent activities? Reader discusses Aum's spiritual roots, placing it in the context of contemporary Japanese religious patterns. Asahara's teaching are examined from his earliest public pronouncements through to his sermons at the time of the attack, and statements he has made in court. In analysing how Aum not only manufactured nerve gases but constructed its own internal doctrinal justifications for using them Reader focuses on the formation of what made all this possible: Aum's internal thought-world, and on how this was developed. Reader argues that despite the horrors of this particular case, Aum should not be seen as unique, nor as solely a political or criminal terror group. Rather it can best be analysed within the context of religious violence, as an extreme example of a religious movement that has created friction with the wider world that escalated into violence.

The Japanese Buddhist World Map

The Japanese Buddhist World Map
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780824890056
ISBN-13 : 0824890051
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Japanese Buddhist World Map by : D. Max Moerman

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception. In examining these fascinating sources of visual and material culture, author D. Max Moerman argues for an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism—one that compels us to recognize the role of the Buddhist geographic imaginary in a culture that encompassed multiple cartographic and cosmological world views. The contents and contexts of Japanese Buddhist world maps reveal the ambivalent and shifting position of Japan in the Buddhist world, its encounter and negotiation with foreign ideas and technologies, and the possibilities for a global history of Buddhism and science. Moerman’s visual and intellectual history traces the multiple trajectories of Japanese Buddhist world maps, beginning with the earliest extant Japanese map of the world: a painting by a fourteenth-century Japanese monk charting the cosmology and geography of India and Central Asia based on an account written by a seventh-century Chinese pilgrim-monk. He goes on to discuss the cartographic inclusion and marginal position of Japan, the culture of the copy and the power of replication in Japanese Buddhism, and the transcultural processes of engagement and response to new visions of the world produced by Iberian Christians, Chinese Buddhists, and the Japanese maritime trade. Later chapters explore the transformations in the media and messages of Buddhist cartography in the age of print culture and in intellectual debates during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries over cosmology and epistemology and the polemics of Buddhist science. The Japanese Buddhist World Map offers a wholly innovative picture of Japanese Buddhism that acknowledges the possibility of multiple and heterogeneous modernities and alternative visions of Japan and the world.

Faith in Mount Fuji

Faith in Mount Fuji
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9780824890438
ISBN-13 : 0824890434
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Faith in Mount Fuji by : Janine Anderson Sawada

Even a fleeting glimpse of Mount Fuji’s snow-capped peak emerging from the clouds in the distance evokes the reverence it has commanded in Japan from ancient times. Long considered sacred, during the medieval era the mountain evolved from a venue for solitary ascetics into a well-regulated pilgrimage site. With the onset of the Tokugawa period, the nature of devotion to Mount Fuji underwent a dramatic change. Working people from nearby Edo (now Tokyo) began climbing the mountain in increasing numbers and worshipping its deity on their own terms, leading to a widespread network of devotional associations known as Fujikō. In Faith in Mount Fuji Janine Sawada asserts that the rise of the Fuji movement epitomizes a broad transformation in popular religion that took place in early modern Japan. Drawing on existing practices and values, artisans and merchants generated new forms of religious life outside the confines of the sectarian establishment. Sawada highlights the importance of independent thinking in these grassroots phenomena, making a compelling case that the new Fuji devotees carved out enclaves for subtle opposition to the status quo within the restrictive parameters of the Tokugawa order. The founding members effectively reinterpreted materials such as pilgrimage maps, talismans, and prayer formulae, laying the groundwork for the articulation of a set of remarkable teachings by Jikigyō Miroku (1671–1733), an oil peddler who became one of the group’s leading ascetic practitioners. His writings fostered a vision of Mount Fuji as a compassionate parental deity who mandated a new world of economic justice and fairness in social and gender relations. The book concludes with a thought-provoking assessment of Jikigyō’s suicide on the mountain as an act of commitment to world salvation that drew on established ascetic practice even as it conveyed political dissent. Faith in Mount Fuji is a pioneering work that contains a wealth of in-depth analysis and original interpretation. It will open up new avenues of discussion among students of Japanese religions and intellectual history, and supply rich food for thought to readers interested in global perspectives on issues of religion and society, ritual culture, new religions, and asceticism.