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Sukui no Hikari Kyōdan | 救いの光教団 |
A new religion deriving from Sekai Kyūseikyō, and one of several groups that in quick succession became independent in opposition to that religion's policy of centralization ( ichigenka ) implemented in the mid-1960s. Its direct parent body was Shinsei Kyōkai, which had been one o... |
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Sumerakyō | すめら教 |
A Shinto-derived new religion considered in the Shirakawa Shintō lineage. It began when Onikura Taruhiko, who had received direct transmission from the Shirakawa family of Shinto ritualists (called the Shirakawa Hakuō), experienced possession ( kamigakari ) by a deity around 1... |
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Sūkyō Mahikari | 崇教真光 |
A new religion derived from the lineages of Ōmoto and Sekai Kyūseikyō, and which became independent from the Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan. When the founder of Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan, Okada Kōtama (1901-74) (known in the movement as sukuinushi , or lit., "salvation mast... |
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Taireidō | 太霊道 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Tanaka Morihei (1884-1928). Tanaka is said to have acquired a kind of supranormal power akin to an "ectenic force" ( reishiryoku ) as the result of a four-months long ascetic seclusion in the mountains, together with fasting he pe... |
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Taiwa Kyōdan | 大和教団 |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement. It emerged from Yamatokyō, a movement founded by Hozumi Kenkō (1913-76) and his wife Hisako (1908-2003), when the latter movement's Sendai branch, headed by Hisako, went independent. Hozumi Hisako had been subject to chronic illness sin... |
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Tamamitsu Jinja | 玉光神社 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by the spirit medium Motoyama Kinue (1909-74). In 1932 Kinue attempted suicide out of depression, flinging herself off a precipice on the island of Shōdoshima. A sudden gust of wind, however, blew her back onto the cliff, and just then she heard ... |
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Ten'onkyō | 天恩教 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Hachiro Fukuji (1899-1962). On the occasion of the one-hundredth-day memorial following his eldest daughter's death in 1931, Hachiro experienced the ability to converse with her spirit, and thereafter received visitations from va... |
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Tenchikyō | 天地教 |
The founder of this group, Uozumi Masanobu (1852-1928), was born into the Maruo family, a farming family in Hyogo Prefecture. He became a household servant in Kobe, but he became seriously ill, and was healed by Shirakami Shin'ichirō (the first-generation person of that name), who ... |
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Tengenkyō | 天元教 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Naniwa Hisakazu (1902-84). Hisakazu was born as the second son of Ishii Hanjirō and his wife Miwa in the Kashima district of Okayama Prefecture, but at the age of nine he took on the surname of his mother's family. After graduating from hig... |
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Tenjōkyō Hon'in | 天壌教本院 |
A Shinto-derived new religion whose founder was Kuramoto Ito (1895-1985). Ito was born in Hōfu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, but stayed at the home of relatives in Saga while attending a girls' school there. Due to various family misfortunes, however, she returned to her family ... |
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Tenjōkyō | 天常教 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Ishiguro Jō (1908- ), known within the movement as Mahashira (True Pillar). Ishiguro was born in Sayō-chō in Hyogo Prefecture, the second son of Ishiguro Yasujirō and Ishiguro Suwa. It is said that at the age of 17 he was so stricken with pulmon... |
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Tenkōkyō | 天光教 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fujita Shinshō (?- 1966). Fujita was born into a farming family in Uma district in Ehime Prefecture, and at the age of nineteen received a revelation from a deity he called Tenchikane no kami ("heaven-earth gold deity," simultane... |
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Tenrikyō | 天理教 |
Together with being one of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto, Tenrikyō was Japan's largest new religion from Meiji era until Japan's defeat in World War II (1945). In the tenth lunar month of 1863 Nakayama Miki (1798-1887) had a sudden experience of spirit possession ( kam... |
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Tensei Shinbikai | 天聖真美会 |
A Shinto-derived new religion strongly influenced by Sekai Kyūseikyō. Its founder Iwanaga Kayoko (1934-) became a member of Sekai Kyūseikyō in 1958. Her husband Hidetaka also joined, and together they alternated leadership of the movement's Ujina branch center in Hiroshima. Du... |
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Tensha Tsuchimikado Shintō Honchō | 天社土御門神道本庁 |
A religious movement drawing its inspiration from Tsuchimikado Shintō (Tensha Shintō) which was established in the early modern period by the Tsuchimikado family (descendants of the Heian period Yin-Yang ritualist Abe no Seimei). Dissolved in 1870, Tsuchimikado Shintō was rev... |
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Tenshin Seikyō | 天心聖教 |
A new religious movement founded by Shimada Seiichi (1896-1985). Seiichi was born the second son of a farming family in Kazo City in Saitama Prefecture. It is said that Shimada's birth had been prophesied a year before by a kami that had periodically possessed his elder brother since ... |
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Tenshindō Kyōdan | 天真道教団 |
A Shinto-derived new religion with strong eclectic tendencies, founded by Tamura Reishō (1890-1968). While working in the office of the Governor-General of Korea, Reishō studied the Daoistic magical arts transmitted in Korea since ancient times. It is said that after returning ... |
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Tenshinkyō Shin'yūden Kyōkai | 天真教真祐殿教会 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Kamiide Fusae (1922-1980). Having become a devotee of Tenrikyō due through her aunt's introduction, Kamiide had a sudden experience of spirit possession ( kamigakari ) in 1958. The oracle she received was from the " kami of heaven... |
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Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō | 天照皇大神宮教 |
A Shinto-based new religion founded by Kitamura Sayo (1900-1967). Kitamura was born into a farming family in Kumage district in Yamaguchi Prefecture, but married into the Kitamura household, where she experienced a very strict mother-in-law. After one of family's outbuildings ... |
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Tenshōkyō | 天照教 |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Senba Hideo (1925-) and his wife Senba Kimiko, both of whom were born in Hokkaido. Senba Hideo's family were devotees of Tenrikyō, but when Hideo became ill in March 1953, the couple went to the Terahama branch of Ontakekyō in Hokkaido and beca... |
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