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Prophet Motive - Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan (Hardcover)
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Prophet Motive - Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan (Hardcover)
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From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted
spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburo (1871-1948) transformed his
mother-in-law's small, rural religious following into a massive
movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a
potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like
divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political
agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he
attracted millions to Oomoto, his Shintoist new religion. Despite
its condemnation as a heterodox sect by state authorities and the
mainstream media, Oomoto quickly became the fastest-growing
religion in Japan of the time. In telling the story of Onisaburo
and Oomoto, Nancy Stalker not only gives us the first full account
in English of the rise of a heterodox movement in imperial Japan,
but also provides new perspectives on the importance of
"charismatic entrepreneurship" in the success of new religions
around the world. She makes the case that these religions often
respond to global developments and tensions (imperialism,
urbanization, consumerism, the diffusion of mass media) in similar
ways. They require entrepreneurial marketing and management skills
alongside their spiritual authority if their groups are to survive
encroachments by the state and achieve national/international
stature. Their drive to realize and extend their religious view of
the world ideally stems from a "prophet" rather than "profit"
motive, but their activity nevertheless relies on success in the
modern capitalist, commercial world. Unlike many studies of
Japanese religion during this period, "Prophet Motive" works to
dispel the notion that prewar Shinto was monolithically supportive
of state initiatives and ideology.
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