This volume presents Japanese "new religions," those founded since the first decades of the 1800s, as they spread overseas through the expansion of the Japanese empire and the emigration of Japanese laborers. Each chapter serves as a case study of the effect of cultural and religious globalization. Thus, the book contributes to a better understanding of the phenomenon of religious transplantation, particularly in regard to Japanese religions, in the context of an increasingly globalized world.
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Japanese religions in the world The expansion of Japan's new religions overseas / Susumu Shimazono The settlement of zen in Australia / Gary D. Bouma Sūkyō Mahikari in Australia and southeast Asia: a globalized new religious movement outside the Japanese diaspora / Wendy A. Smith The farce of the "great Russian salvation tour : the legacy of Aum Shinrikyō in mother Russia / Daniel A. Metraux When Uchi goes Soto: the travels of the gods in the Shinto diaspora / Nelson Graburn Japanese religions in Brazil Japanese religions in Brazil: their development in and out of the diaspora society / Hideaki Matsuoka and Ronan A. Pereira The Brazilian imaginaire on zen: global influences, rhizomatic forms / Cristina M. Rocha The nationalization of foreign gods: Seichō-no-ie among Brazilians / Leila M.B. de Albuquerque Elevation of the spirit: on the continuity and discontinuity between the church of world messianity and Brazilian religions / Hideaki Matsuoka "A paradise of happiness will unfold for you in Brazil": Sōka Gakkai success in and beyond the Japanese expatriate community / Ronan A. Pereira
