Recently added articles from Japanese Journal of Religious Studies:
Editors' Introduction: Japanese Religions in Brazil
Jan 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) THE DATE of the publication of this special issue on "Japanese Religions in Brazil" coincides with the centenary festivities of Japanese immigration to Brazil. On a number of occasions throughout the year, including 18 June-the day of the ...
The Failed Prophecy of Shinto Nationalism and the Rise of Japanese Brazilian Catholicism
Jan 01, 2008; ... This article deals with the main religious transition that accomplished the redefinition of Japanese Brazilian identity after the Second World War. State Shinto was the main world view of the Japanese immigrants in Brazil until the 1950s, playing a key role in the Japanese resistance of ...
"The Last Missionary to Leave the Temple Should Turn Off the Light": Sociological Remarks on the Decline of Japanese "Immigrant" Buddhism in Brazil
Jan 01, 2008; ... Empirical data indicate that the so-called "Buddhism of yellow color" that is predominantly associated with Japanese "immigrant" Buddhism, is constantly in decline in terms of "explicit" adherents. After some methodological observations, this article gives an overview of the relevant statistical ...
Intellectuals and Japanese Buddhism in Brazil
Jan 01, 2008; ... This study concentrates on the discovery of Japanese Buddhism by Brazilian intellectuals as a group of spiritual practices and as a body of spiritual wisdom. The study has been realized through readings and meetings with Japanese Buddhist monks and/or Japanese immigrants. These intellectuals ...
All Roads Come from Zen: Busshinji as a Reference to Buddhism
Jan 01, 2008; ... This paper explores the historical role of Busshinji temple as a center of Buddhism in Brazil for non-Japanese. Busshinji was established by Sotoshu as a betsuin (branch temple) in the city of São Paulo in 1956. Drawing on interviews with early adherents, I intend to argue that many first ...
The Transplantation of Soka Gakkai to Brazil: Building "the Closest Organization to the Heart of Ikeda-Sensei"
Jan 01, 2008; ... Up to the 1980s, Buddhist influence in Brazil was, at best, exiguous and marginal. The Buddhist Society of Brazil, established in 1923 by Theosophists, was short-lived, and was only reestablished in 1955 with little public visibility and activity. In areas with a high concentration of ...
The Development of Japanese New Religions in Brazil and Their Propagation in a Foreign Culture
Jan 01, 2008; ... This article will examine Omoto, Konkokyo, and Rissho Koseikai as examples of New Religions among Brazilians of Japanese descent, and Sekai Kyuseikyo, Soka Gakkai, and Reiyukai as Japanese new religions that have expanded through propagation to Brazilians of a non-Japanese ethnic background. It ...
Japanese Religions, Calendars, and Religious Culture in Brazil
Jan 01, 2008; ... This article analyzes some characteristics of religious culture in Brazil found in calendars collected by the author, particularly at the turn of 2006. General features of calendars in Brazil are summarized in reference to national culture, mass culture, company culture, and religious culture ....
Japanese Religions in and beyond the Japanese Diaspora
Jan 01, 2008; ... Ronan Alves Pereira and Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Religions in and beyond the Japanese Diaspora Berkeley, California: Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California Press, 2007. ix + 251 pp. $22.00 paper, isbn 1-55729-087-3. THIS BOOK contains academic papers based on an ...
Japanese Prayer below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity
Jan 01, 2008; ... Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Prayer below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007. 173 pp. $60.00, hardcover. isbn-10 0-7391-1379-8 and isbn-13 978-0-7391-1379-0. Hideaki Matsuoka trained and actually worked in Japan as a doctor ...
Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity
Jan 01, 2008; ... Cristina Rocha, Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press 2006. 256 pp. Hardcover, $37:00. isbn-10 0-8248-2976-x; isbn-13 978-0-8248-2976-6. Cristina Rocha is a Brazilian researcher engaged in the study of the Buddhism of Brazil. She ...
Christians in Japan
Jan 01, 2007; ... (ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) IN SEPTEMBER 2005 the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia hosted a remarkable two-day symposium somewhat grandly titled, "Experiences With and Within: Christians in Japan from the 16th Century to the ...
The Conversion of Hideyoshi's Daughter Go
Jan 01, 2007; ... Despite the drastic curtailment of missionary activity in Japan that resulted from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Christianity in 1587, letters of the Jesuit missionaries reveal that the ban did not prevent the conversion of one lady, Go, a woman of the Maeda house and Hideyoshi's own adopted ...
Journey to the West
Jan 01, 2007; ... What is often called the first Japanese embassy to Europe was actually a publicity stunt conceived in 1582 by Alexandro Valignano, the inspector of the Portuguese-sponsored Asian missions of the Society of Jesus. Four teenagers from Kyushu were paraded through Portugal, Spain, and ...
The Brotherhoods (Confrarias) and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan
Jan 01, 2007; ... By the end of the sixteenth century, the Japanese mission had become the largest overseas Christian community that was not under the rule of a European power. Its uniqueness was emphasized by Alessandro Valignano since 1582, who promoted a deeper accommodation to Japanese culture. It was also ...
The Experiences of Christians During the Underground Years and Thereafter
Jan 01, 2007; ... This paper examines the "underground" Christians of the Edo period, looking principally at the experiences of Christians in community. It is argued that these experiences reflect a tension between the complementary realms of secrecy on the one hand and privacy on the other, concluding that at ...
Nitobe Inazo and the Sapporo Band: Reflections on the Dawn of Protestant Christianity in Early Meiji Japan
Jan 01, 2007; ... This paper focuses on the famous prewar internationalist Nitobe Inazo, and inquires into the origins of his Christian faith. Born in 1862 in Morioka in the last years of the Tokugawa period, he imbibed Christianity while attending the Sapporo Agricultural College. That institution's unique ...
Christian Prophecy in Japan: Uchimura Kanzo
Jan 01, 2007; ... Uchimura Kanzo (1861-1930) was an extremely accomplished Meiji Christian convert who emphasized a Christianity he considered in tune with traditional Japanese religiosity and free of Western influence. When a child, he observed his family's distress as Meiji rulers dismantled the Tokugawa ...
Toward a Modern Belief: Modernist Protestantism and Problems of National Religion in Meiji Japan
Jan 01, 2007; ... In this article, I discuss the significance of religious liberalism and reformism of Meiji Protestantism at the turn of the twentieth century. The period, I argue, is crucial to understanding Japanese Protestantism as modernist. The survival and expansion of Christianity and its educational ...
Christianity and Gender Relationships in Japan: Case Studies of Marriage and Divorce in Early Meiji Protestant Circles
Jan 01, 2007; ... It is accepted that Victorian attitudes to love, chastity, marriage, and the family, all rooted in Christianity, played an important part in changing norms of behavior related to gender relationships in Meiji Japan. But writers on Christianity in Meiji Japan have paid little attention to women ...