Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan Paperback - 1988
by Hardacre, Helen
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- Title Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan
- Author Hardacre, Helen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A
- Date 1988
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0691020485I5N10
- ISBN 9780691020488 / 0691020485
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.53 x 0.59 in (21.54 x 14.05 x 1.50 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85043287
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.561
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From the rear cover
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.