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This made religion essentially a taboo topic, Nishida said, and to this day, religious education is not provided at elementary, junior, or high schools in Japan, unlike in most EU member states.
The U.S. State Department cited the report by the Human Rights Without Frontiers International, which is connected to CESNUR, in the 2011 annual International Religious Freedom Report to Japan summarized that deprogrammers cooperate with family members on "abductions" of members of the Unification Church and other minority religious groups for several years.
Shinto (神道, Shintō), also kami-no-michi, [a] is the indigenous religion of Japan and of most of the people of Japan. [14] George Williams classifies Shinto as an action-centered religion; [15] it focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently in order to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient roots. [16]
Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan. In Japanese, they are called shinshūkyō ( 新宗教 ) or shinkō shūkyō ( 新興宗教 ) . Japanese scholars classify all religious organizations founded since the middle of the 19th century as "new religions"; thus, the term refers to a great diversity and number of ...
The earliest period of Japanese historiography is the hunter-gatherer Jōmon period, which is thought to have been primarily animistic.In the later centuries (14,000–400 BC) of this period, there was an emergence of distinctive material artifacts such as clay figurines (known to scholars as dogū), intricate ceramics, and masks.
Honmichi (ほんみち) is a Tenrikyo-based Shinshūkyō (Japanese new religion) that became formally independent in 1925 under its founder, Ōnishi Aijirō, with the title, Kanrodainin no Ri (甘露台人の理, The Princple of the Living Kanrodai).
Hikari no Wa or The Circle of Rainbow Light (光の輪, literally "Circle of Light") is a Japanese new religious movement started in 2007. [1] It was founded by Fumihiro Joyu (上祐史浩, Jōyū Fumihiro), [2] the previous spokesperson and public relations manager of the Japanese Buddhist new religious group and doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.
Shrinreikyo is a Japanese religion, which was originally created in 1939 but was recognized only in June 1948 within the education system. The group is headquartered in Nishinomiya; however, the religious group has churches in Tokyo, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Kanazawa and in 1977 had a place in Honshu as well.