A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE GLOBALIZATION OF JAPANESE NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

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To gather quantitative data on the globalization of Japanese New Religious Movements we send out questionnaires to 240 New Religious Groupes. In parallel, we visited some groupes such as Tensho-kotai-Jingukyo, Sekai-Kyuseikyo, and Tenrikyo, which show significant features, in order to gather some detailed data.These investigations give us some general ideas which concern the overseas activities of Japanese New Religious :1.Japanese New Religious Groupes succeed in gaining more than a million of believers from all over the world, but we have to say that their policies of propagation aren't yet clarified.2.Since their faith have been propagated by the initiative of each believers, their activities are intensified and generalaized in some areas like North and South America or South-East Asia, but these are limited in other areas like China, Russia or Africa.3.Recently, some groupes decided to undergo their overseas activities on the initiative of the central office : SGI,Tensho-kotai-jingukyo, Sinnyo-en, PL-kyodan, are typical ones.