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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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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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... 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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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 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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This descriptive study examined the influence of demographic factors (age, gender, income, level of education, and religion) on consumers' attitudes to purchase American-made passenger vehicles in three Asian countries: 1) China, 2) Taiwan, and 3) Thailand. Since American-made vehicles still occupy only a small segment of this Asian market, the relationships and differences among the three countries in terms of their culture and country-of-origin effect on product attributes were measured - helping marketers increase market share by better understanding the determining factors leading to notable diversity in the consumers' decision-making process.
... scholarships to them to study in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Song, Appleton, and Knight...Religion in China - The traditional religions of China are Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. P...
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Independent environmental journalist Carmelo Ruiz Marrero explains the actions of pro-privatization international lending agencies by stating that water is wasted because people get it for free or for artificially low prices.\n Furthermore, women and female children are most affected, as they are forced to travel an average of five miles a day to fetch available water-often times this water is not even potable.
...For many religions, water represents purity and rebirth. In Christian... During the 2004 World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, Maude Barlow, a highly regarded Canadian field ex...