We are excited to announce the publication of a special issue ": Searching for Legitimacy: Tenrikyo, Omoto, and 'Marginalized' Religions of Modern Japan." The complete issue as well as individual articles can be accessed free of charge on our website. - ThreadSky

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jjrs-nirc.bsky.social • 16 days ago

We are excited to announce the publication of a special issue ": Searching for Legitimacy: Tenrikyo, Omoto, and 'Marginalized' Religions of Modern Japan." The complete issue as well as individual articles can be accessed free of charge on our website.

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jjrs-nirc.bsky.social•16 days ago

In the introduction to the issue, editors Nagaoka Takashi and Masato Kato discuss the problems with the category of "new religions" when applied to prewar traditions such as Tenrikyo and Omoto.

jjrs-nirc.bsky.social•16 days ago

Nagaoka explains who myth and creation narratives in the sacred texts of these traditions were interpreted in the context of early twentieth-century nationalism in Japan.

jjrs-nirc.bsky.social•16 days ago

In his article "Legitimizing an Evil Teaching: Deguchi Onisaburō and 'Superstition' in Modern Japan," Takashi Miura argues that Onisaburō appropriated the term "superstition" to use for his own purposes.

jjrs-nirc.bsky.social•16 days ago

In "From Faith-Healing Group to New Religion: The Discursive Formulation of Tenrikyo in Meiji," Franziska Steffen outlines how debates between Tenrikyo faithful and their critics led to Tenrikyo being dubbed a "new religion."

jjrs-nirc.bsky.social•16 days ago

In "From Shinto Sect to Religion: The De-Shintoization of Tenrikyo," Kato examines how Tenrikyo shed its association with Shinto in the postwar error.

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