Gender and New Religions in Modern Japan

Inose, Yuri

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“…See also the series of videos on Agonshū on YouTube that express this notion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0P08rtAGy8). See Ambros (2015); Inose (2017); Kawahashi (2017); and Kawahashi and Kobayashi (2017) for discussions of gender-related issues, and notably, the prejudices in gender terms against women across the religious spectrum in Japan, and notably in Buddhism and Buddhist-related movements. Not all of the movements of the 1980s were so 'modern' in this sense; Kōfuku no Kagaku, for example, appears more conservative in terms of gender issues than, for instance, Aum or Agonshū.…”

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Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese ‘New’ Religion

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2019

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Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese ‘New’ Religion

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“…148-67;Gaitanidis 2012, p. 275). Although this study draws upon field interviews with women belonging to religious organizations, the discussion is not primarily concerned with the gendering of religiosity and spirituality-a discussion that can be found in several extant scholarly works (Hardacre 1984;Gaitanidis 2012;Komatsu 2015Komatsu , 2017Inose 2017;Kawahashi and Kobayashi 2017;Cavaliere 2018aCavaliere , 2018bCavaliere , 2019a. Still, the gender gaps in religiosity are among the most consistent findings in the social sciences (Miller and Stark 2002;Kawahashi 2006;Woodhead 2007;Baker and Whitehead 2016;Komatsu 2015Komatsu , 2017, and more women than men tend to be both religious and spiritual (McGuire 2008;Palmisano 2010; Chaves 2011; Woodhead 2011; Ammerman 2014a), which raises the question of what meaning affiliates attach to their spiritual life and vice versa.…”

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Women between Religion and Spirituality: Observing Religious Experience in Everyday Japanese Life

Cavaliere

2019

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A large majority of Japanese people describe themselves as mushūkyō, ‘non-religious’, even though they participate in several religious-related cultural practices that socialize them to accept spiritual attitudes without the mediation of organized religion. This phenomenon fits well into the ‘spiritual but not religious’ formula of the contemporary Northern European and North American sociological debate, in which the ‘religion’ and ‘spiritual’ categories denote interdependent, although not always reciprocated, domains. Drawing upon two sets of qualitative data on women belonging to five religious organizations (Shinnyoen, Risshō kōseikai, the Roman Catholic Church in Japan, Sōga Gakkai, and God Light Association (GLA)), in this study, I argue that the religion–spirituality distinction not only fails to capture the empirical reality of contemporary Japanese religions, it also does not take into account new modalities of religious and spiritual experiences of people with such affiliations. Their experiences are expressed through the socio-cultural milieu and the language of religion and spirituality available to them in contiguous and complementary ways. In this respect, the aim of this article is to discuss such aspects of Japanese women’s religious and spiritual experiences that have often eluded scholars writing on Japanese religiosity in order to broaden the focus of reflection to include the mushūkyō aspect and the presumed religion–spirituality mismatch.

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Mothers and Moral Activists

Cavaliere

2018

J. Religion Japan

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Many sociological studies have discussed the importance of religion and gender as two key components facilitating civic engagement, which in turn is believed to foster citizenship and democratization. Most female members of Japanese new religions engage in a variety of service-oriented volunteer initiatives where they tend to provide help and support to individuals directly, outside of organized volunteer organizations and civic associations. Such volunteer behaviour is defined in the literature as informal volunteering. In this respect, this paper addresses three main questions: 1) What aspects of religiosity relate to women’s participation in informal volunteering sponsored by Japanese religious organizations? 2) What specific volunteer models of women’s social engagement are articulated through informal volunteering and what is the dominant background neoliberal ideology? 3) How do these models foster women’s citizenship and social participation? This paper draws upon two sets of qualitative data (2010–2012 and 2015–2017) of religious-based volunteer activities performed by women belonging to four Japanese religious organizations: Risshō Kōseikai 立正佼成会, Shinnyoen 真如苑, the Roman Catholic Church in Japan (Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai 日本カトリック教会), and GLA ジーエルエー (God Light Association).

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Gender and New Religions in Modern Japan

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Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese ‘New’ Religion

Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese ‘New’ Religion

Women between Religion and Spirituality: Observing Religious Experience in Everyday Japanese Life

Mothers and Moral Activists

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