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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"japanese religion"”.
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Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
… East-West dichotomies which emphasize “Japanese polytheism” and “Western monotheism,” and scholarly assumptions about devotional practices. This thesis begins to address this classificatory impasse by first expanding on recent advancements in the taxonomy of religion, including a …
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Creating Heresy: (Mis)representation, Fabrication, and the Tachikawa-ryu
… by the Tachikawa-ryu in the development of Japanese esoteric Buddhist doctrine during the medieval period (900-1200). In doing so, I seek to challenge currently held, inaccurate views of the role played by this tradition in the history of Japanese esoteric Buddhism and Japanese religion more …
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American Shinto Community of Practice: Community formation outside original context
Shinto is a native Japanese religion with a history that goes back thousands of years. Because of its close ties to Japanese culture, and Shinto's strong emphasis on place in its practice, it does not seem to be the kind of religion that would migrate to other areas of the world and convert new …
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Raça, Jinshu, Race: Whiteness, Japanese-ness, and Resistance in Sūkyō Mahikari in the Brazilian Amazon
… an analysis of how leaders and adherents of a Japanese religion called Sūkyō Mahikari understand and interpret <em>jinshu</em> (race) and <em>hito</em>(person) in a particular way, and how this ideology is practiced in the city of Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon. The teachings of Sūkyō Mahikari …
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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
… this divisive view by treating Aum as a ‘religion’, not a ‘cult’, and locating the root causes of Aum’s growth in Japanese society. Additionally, victims and former members have pursued divergent goals such as retributive justice, financial reparations, and social reconciliation through …