Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan 9780824864040

From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburô (1871–1948) transformed his mo

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Deguchi Onisaburò: Early Life to Oomoto Leadership
Chapter 2. Neo-Nativism: Oomoto Views on Mythology, Governance, and Agrarianism
Chapter 3. Taishò Spiritualism
Chapter 4. Exhibitionist Tendencies: Visual Technologies of Proselytization
Chapter 5. Paradoxical Internationalism? Oomoto in the World
Chapter 6. A Patriotic Turn and the Second Suppression
Conclusion: State, Religion, and Tradition in Imperial Japan
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan
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