| Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan Contributor(s): Hardacre, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691020485 ISBN-13: 9780691020488 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1988 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Shintoism - Religion | History - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 299.561 |
| LCCN: 85043287 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.53" W x 8.48" (0.60 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming. |