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Clean Minds, Messy Realities: Shifting Trends in Contemporary Tenrikyo
Clean Minds, Messy Realities: Shifting Trends in Contemporary Tenrikyo
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151008
- ISBN
- 9798382719450
- DDC
- 200
- 서명/저자
- Clean Minds, Messy Realities: Shifting Trends in Contemporary Tenrikyo
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 472 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Ambros, Barbara R.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Tenrikyo is one of the oldest and, despite demographic shifts and an aging membership, one of the largest of Japan's "new religions." In many ways, the history of Tenrikyo reflects the history of Japan's modernization across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As Japanese politicians, intellectuals, and other social actors struggled to define "religion" in the Japanese context, Tenrikyo underwent constant reorganization to match. While most research on new religious movements focuses on pursuing the newest groups, older organizations like Tenrikyo provide context for how these labels arise and their continued impact on religious communities.To observe contemporary trends across Tenrikyo, I conducted fieldwork within one specific church lineage network as a case study. My dissertation is formatted to expand outward, starting from one core community and following its extended networks of affiliate churches, intrareligious organizations, interreligious dialogue, and "nonreligious" or "secular" collaborations, and its place within Tenrikyo overall. My fieldwork coincided with the first year of a newly appointed head minister, providing the opportunity to observe how he and other young leaders negotiated generational dynamics and change.My thesis consists of three interrelated arguments. First, Tenrikyo is best understood as a series of messy, interconnected networks, as anyone born into Tenrikyo inherits a long history of interpersonal, intergenerational dynamics and expectations. By recognizing the rhizomatic nature of these networks, we can find unexpected assemblages that tell each community's distinctive story. Second, Tenrikyo has been heavily influenced by the academic study of religion, internally and externally. Having emerged alongside the contested definition of religion itself, and having undergone decades of reforms by a leader who himself was a scholar of religion, Tenrikyo serves as a case study on how academia can impact the groups being studied. Third, religious groups must negotiate a balance of innovation and tradition. Belonging to a marginalized tradition, Tenrikyo communities look to their traditions as proof of historicity and authenticity but also pursue innovation to maintain relevance in contemporary society. Utilizing theological rhetoric that casts "restoration" as "innovation," Tenri leaders have and continue to redefine their communities and networks to find that balance.
- 일반주제명
- Religion
- 일반주제명
- Asian studies
- 일반주제명
- Cultural anthropology
- 기타저자
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Religious Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aTenrikyo is one of the oldest and, despite demographic shifts and an aging membership, one of the largest of Japan's "new religions." In many ways, the history of Tenrikyo reflects the history of Japan's modernization across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As Japanese politicians, intellectuals, and other social actors struggled to define "religion" in the Japanese context, Tenrikyo underwent constant reorganization to match. While most research on new religious movements focuses on pursuing the newest groups, older organizations like Tenrikyo provide context for how these labels arise and their continued impact on religious communities.To observe contemporary trends across Tenrikyo, I conducted fieldwork within one specific church lineage network as a case study. My dissertation is formatted to expand outward, starting from one core community and following its extended networks of affiliate churches, intrareligious organizations, interreligious dialogue, and "nonreligious" or "secular" collaborations, and its place within Tenrikyo overall. My fieldwork coincided with the first year of a newly appointed head minister, providing the opportunity to observe how he and other young leaders negotiated generational dynamics and change.My thesis consists of three interrelated arguments. First, Tenrikyo is best understood as a series of messy, interconnected networks, as anyone born into Tenrikyo inherits a long history of interpersonal, intergenerational dynamics and expectations. By recognizing the rhizomatic nature of these networks, we can find unexpected assemblages that tell each community's distinctive story. Second, Tenrikyo has been heavily influenced by the academic study of religion, internally and externally. Having emerged alongside the contested definition of religion itself, and having undergone decades of reforms by a leader who himself was a scholar of religion, Tenrikyo serves as a case study on how academia can impact the groups being studied. Third, religious groups must negotiate a balance of innovation and tradition. Belonging to a marginalized tradition, Tenrikyo communities look to their traditions as proof of historicity and authenticity but also pursue innovation to maintain relevance in contemporary society. Utilizing theological rhetoric that casts "restoration" as "innovation," Tenri leaders have and continue to redefine their communities and networks to find that balance.
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■653 ▼aNew religious movements
■653 ▼aReligious networks
■653 ▼aReligious communities
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17160384▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
