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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]
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.
Tenrikyo (天 理 教, Tenrikyō, sometimes rendered as Tenriism) [1] is a Japanese new religion which is neither strictly monotheistic nor pantheistic, [2] originating from the teachings of a 19th-century woman named Nakayama Miki, known to her followers as "Oyasama". [3]
According to the annual statistical research on religion in 2018 by the Government of Japan's Agency for Culture Affairs, about two million or around 1.5% of Japan's population are Christians. [28] Other religions include Islam (70,000) and Judaism (2,000), which are largely immigrant communities with some ethnic Japanese practitioners. [29] [30]
The history of religion in Japan has been characterized by the predominance of animistic religions practiced by its mainland, Ryukyuan, and Ainu inhabitants. In addition, on the Yamato -dominated mainland, Mahayana Buddhism has also played a profoundly important role.
The Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Eastern Orthodoxy is a minor religion in Japan. The current primate of Japan is vacant. [47] The primate's seat is the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Founded in 1891, the cathedral has been known as Nikolai-do in honor of its founder Nicholas Kasatkin.
[18] [19] [31] Islam remains a minority religion in Japan. Conversion is more prominent among young ethnic Japanese married women, as claimed by The Modern Religion as early as the 1990s. [30] The true size of the current Muslim population in Japan remains a matter of speculation.
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