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Author: Guthrie, Stewart, 1941-
Title: A Japanese new religion : Risshō Kōsei-kai in a mountain hamlet / by Stewart Guthrie.
Publication info: Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library
2004
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Print source: A Japanese new religion : Risshō Kōsei-kai in a mountain hamlet / by Stewart Guthrie.
Guthrie, Stewart, 1941-
Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, the University of Michigan, 1988.
Subject terms:
Risshō Kōseikai -- Social aspects.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0914393.0001.001
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Frontmatter
LIST OF FIGURES , pp. ix
PREFACE , pp. xi
CHAPTER 1: PROBLEM, THEORY AND METHOD , pp. 1
Introduction , pp. 1
Theory , pp. 5
Fieldwork: Preparation, Movement and Community, and Methods , pp. 18
CHAPTER 2: THE HAMLET , pp. 31
Introduction , pp. 31
Environment , pp. 33
Economic Resources , pp. 34
Agriculture , pp. 35
Education , pp. 38
Depopulation , pp. 38
Progress and Self-sufficiency , pp. 39
Social Organization , pp. 40
Summary and Implications , pp. 55
CHAPTER 3: ESTABLISHED BUDDHISM IN YAMANAKA , pp. 57
Introduction , pp. 57
The Temple , pp. 58
Households , pp. 64
Summary and Implications , pp. 92
CHAPTER 4: SHINTO , pp. 95
Introduction , pp. 95
The Tutelary Shrine , pp. 96
Two Minor Shrines , pp. 106
Households , pp. 111
Summary and Implications , pp. 113
CHAPTER 5: RISSHŌ KŌSEI-KAI IN YAMANAKA , pp. 115
Introduction: Arrival, Growth, and Decline , pp. 115
Organization: Church and Branch , pp. 116
The Meeting Place , pp. 119
Members in the Kawa Region , pp. 121
Activities at the Meeting Place , pp. 123
Activities away from the Meeting Place , pp. 134
Summary , pp. 142
CHAPTER 6: SIX MEMBERS AND AN INTERPRETATION , pp. 145
Six Members , pp. 145
Dimensions of the Hypothesis , pp. 181
Summary , pp. 189
CHAPTER 7: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS , pp. 193
Economy in the Religious Model , pp. 194
Some Benefits and Problems of Membership , pp. 197
Conclusions , pp. 204
NOTES , pp. 207
BIBLIOGRAPHY , pp. 221
INDEX , pp. 235