Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō (
Japanese
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) is a Japanese
new religious movement
A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. NRMs can be novel in origin or th ...
which emerged from
Shinto
Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners ''Shintois ...
. It was established by
Sayo Kitamura () (1900–1967), with activities beginning in 1945. The movement includes 450,000 members.
Kitamura claimed possession by
Amaterasu under the title Tenshō-Kōtaijin.
Its headquarters are in
Tabuse
is a town located in Kumage District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
In 2016, the town had an estimated population of 15,200 and a density of 300 persons per km². The total area is 50.35 km².
In 2018, a civil servant reported property ta ...
(, ''Tabuse-chō''), a town in the district of
Kumage District,
Yamaguchi,
Japan
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.
Followers practice a dance called ''muga no mai'' (, "Dance of the non-self" or "Dance of the non-ego"), which is why the religion is called the "dancing religion" (, ''Odoru shūkyō'').
See also
*
Anatta / Anātman (jap. ''muga'')
References
Further reading
* Tina Hamrin: ''Dansreligionen i japansk immigrantmiljö på Hawai'i. Via helbrägdagörare och Jodu shinshu-präster till nationalistisk millennarism.'' (English summary: The Dancing Religion in a Japanese-Hawaiian Immigrant Environment). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1996. (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion)
Review* NISHIYAMA Shigeru & FUJII Takeshi: '. 1991, 1997 Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
* Clark B. Offner
The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Japanese Cultural Setting(PDF; 2,3 MB), S. 57ff.
* Sayo Kitamura: Tensho Kotai Jingu-Kyo (1): The Dancing Religion, Contemporary Religions in Japan 2 (3), (1961), 26–42
* L. Carlyle May: The Dancing Religion: A Japanese Messianic Sect, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 10 (1), (1954), 119–137
External links
Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō
New religious movements
Shinto
Religious organizations
Tabuse, Yamaguchi
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