Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisarburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan
Автор:Nancy K. Stalker Год: 2007 Издание:University of Hawaii Press Страниц: 266 ISBN: 0824831721 From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisabur? (1871-1948) transformed his mother-in-law's small, rural religious following into a massive movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he attracted millions to Oomoto, his Shintoist new religion. Despite its condemnation as a heterodox sect by state authorities and the mainstream media, Oomoto quickly became the fastest-growing religion in Japan of the time. In telling the story of Onisabur? and Oomoto, Nancy Stalker not only gives us the first full account in English of the rise of a heterodox movement in imperial Japan, but also provides new perspectives on the importance of "charismatic entrepreneurship" in the success of new religions around the world. She makes the case that...
