Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan. In Japanese, they are called shinshūkyō (新宗教) or shinkō shūkyō (新興宗教). Japanese...

priests and leaders of the new religions in Japan, three times the number of traditional Shinto priests. Many of these new religions derive from Shinto, retain...

counterculture movements. Japanese new religions became very popular after the Shinto Directive (1945) forced the Japanese government to separate itself...

study of comparative religion, the East Asian religions or Taoic religions,[better source needed] form a subset of the Eastern religions. This group includes...

other religions. They comprise 21st century immigrants from East Asia, the Middle East, or of recent immigrant descent. Afro-Brazilian religions are syncretic...

The history of religion in Japan has been characterized by the predominance of animistic religions practiced by its mainland, Ryukyuan, and Ainu inhabitants...

influence are Afro-American religion, which have their origins in Central and West Africa. Middle Eastern religions: Abrahamic religions are the largest group...

Faith and Ananda Marga, are examples of new religious movements within Indian religions. Japanese new religions (shinshukyo) is a general category for...

– is declining, while stating no religion and affiliation to other (minority) religions is increasing. Statistics New Zealand report that about 80% of...

(1998), 'The "Eschatology" of Japanese new and new new religions: from Tenrikyo to Kofuku-no-Kagaku', Japanese Religions 23, 125–42 Wikimedia Commons has...

community of Brazilians in Japan, consisting largely but not exclusively of Brazilians of Japanese descent. Brazilians with Japanese descent are known as Nikkei...

of new religions like Heathenry have sought to present theirs as "indigenous religions" although have faced scepticism from scholars of religion. The...

Tenrikyo (天理教, Tenrikyō, sometimes rendered as Tenriism) is a Japanese new religion which is neither strictly monotheistic nor pantheistic, originating...

Shinto (Japanese: 神道, romanized: Shintō) is a religion originating from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners...

Omitama. Japanese new religions New religious movement Religions of Japan Yasaka 1999, p. 25 Clarke, Peter Bernard (1994), Japanese New Religions in the...

Seichō no Ie (Japanese: 生長の家, "House of Growth") is a syncretic, monotheistic, New Thought Japanese new religion that has spread since the End of World...

ISBN 0-9593677-4-8. C. Cornille, "New Japanese Religions in the West: Between Nationalism and Universalism", Chapter 1, in "Japanese new religions: in global perspective...

Japanese Brazilians (Japanese: 日系ブラジル人, Hepburn: Nikkei Burajiru-jin, Portuguese: Nipo-brasileiros, [ˌnipobɾaziˈlejɾus]) are Brazilian citizens who are...

Buddhism in Japan (日本の仏教, Nihon no Bukkyō) was first established in the 6th century CE. Most of the Japanese Buddhists belong to new schools of Buddhism...

World Religions and Spirituality Project. Retrieved 7 March 2019. "Former Aum Shinrikyo cult spokesman sets up new group". Religious News Blog. Japan. Kyodo...

religions have syncretic elements, but adherents often frown upon the application of the label, especially those who belong to "revealed" religions,...

the syncretic religion of Shugendō and may also be practiced in independent lineages of holy men (hiriji) and also Japanese New Religions. The collection...

to Brazil were from Japan. The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Until the 1950s, more than 250 thousand Japanese immigrated to Brazil...

religions. This includes the East Asian religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Shinto, and Korean Shamanism; Indian religions...

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji...

Japanese new religions are Nichiren-inspired lay groups. The Soka Gakkai International is often called "the most prominent Japanese 'export' religion...

Ancestors in the New Religions: The Case of Reiyûkai-Derived Groups. In: Inoue Nobutaka, New Religions, Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion 2, Institute...

Makiguchi, Jōsei Toda, and Daisaku Ikeda. It is the largest of the Japanese new religions and claims the largest membership among Nichiren Buddhist groups...

divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; Indigenous religions, which...

was abolished and the shrines were destroyed. During Japanese rule also many Japanese new religions, or independent Shinto sects, proselytised in Manchuria...