Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan
, by Hardacre, HelenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780691020488 | 0691020485
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/1988
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.