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ISBN: 9780824831721
TITLE: Prophet motive; Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the rise of new religions in Imperial Japan.
AUTHOR: Stalker, Nancy K.
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... of established and disestablished religions make a compelling case that establishment of relig... more powerfully here than in Europe and Japan."). Nelson elaborates on this in his discussion of...
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Years of Confinement and Starvation Ignored by Japanese Government
TURIN, Italy, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mr. Toru Goto, who has become an icon of religious persecution, traveled to Turin, Italy to speak to more than 150 scholars at the annual conference of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) to detail his terrifying experience of kidnap and torture at the hands of religious deprogrammers in Japan. The conference was held at the University of Turin.
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De-conversions in Japan inflict torture on religious victims
TURIN, Italy, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaking to the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), Dan Fefferman, President of the International Coalition for Religious Freedom, urged religious scholars from Europe and North America to conduct independent investigations into the kidnappings and forced de- conversions of Unification Church members in Japan.
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...on the grounds of religions or other belief. . Finally, Articles 4 and 7 place...Governmental representatives from Japan and China were reported to have attended the 2000 ...
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... access to upper-class social circles in Japan. Hamabata described how initially he felt like a "... a professor who has studied various religions, a pastor, and an academic who also works within t...
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In bringing together such a large selection of works by women from across the globe, we hope that current and future viewers will make different connections than we did. [...] despite the fact that our version of the exhibition was organized into four sections, we encourage subsequent venues, viewers, and scholars to emphasize other relationships among the works and to create different associations and connections, of which there are an infinitude.
... and within cultures, races, classes, religions, sexualities, and so forth. Using a curatorial str... bag in the ready at her side; while from Japan, Hiroko Okada's Future Plan offers up a Utopian op...
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... of Jin and Toba Wei, Puyo and Koguryo, and Japan. Beckwith has also worked with the ethnolinguistic... steppe polities adopted world religions, the Uyghurs Manicheism in 763 (p. 148) and the Kh...
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The difficulties involved in church-state relations are certainly nothing new in global context. The church-state debate in Japan is complicated because Japanese culture and religion are not easily separated. The religious life of the Japanese people can be seen in the interplay between Shinto and Buddhism. The modern debate on the proper role of religion in the Japanese public sphere, in the context of history, is a relatively recent development. The Religious Corporation Law leveled the playing field for all religions, which means that Buddhism and Shinto now have a legal status equal to that of minority religions. In a pluralistic society in which various religions coexist, it is essential for the maintenance of peace that the state exercise religious neutrality. Freedom of religion ...
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... of different genders, nationalities, religions, ages, and locations in the United States. (9) . D... .062 .518 .905 Jamaica -1.069 .151 .000 Japan -.791 .601 .188 Jordan -.626 .096 .000 Kazakhstan ...