A positive reserch on new religious movements by the numerical method and comparative study

继1991年的“九州新宗教运动比较研究”之后，我们在1993年至1994年期间推进了“西日本新宗教运动比较研究”。我们扩大了研究范围，研究了“Tensyoukotai-jingu kyo”、“Iesu-no-hakobune”、“Oum-shinrikyo”、“Shinnyo-en”、“Megami-no-umi fellowship”、“Science of happiness”、“Suukyo-mahikari”。与前一个研究一样，本研究的中心目的是阐明每个群体成员的宗教意识。我们选择了在这个时代有很大影响的一个作为研究对象。2)反映该地区特点的团体3)最近非常活跃的团体，可归类为“新形成的新宗教团体”。通过对信仰者宗教意识的研究，对其特征进行了反思。这项调查并不能使我们得出这样的结论，即这些群体起源于与科学主义相反的怀疑论或魔法偏好。相反，我们可以说，作为现代社会特征的科学主义具有超越其自身局限性而统一整个世界的超科学倾向。从这样一个社会中产生的“主体”是试图超越现代肉体与灵魂、个体与群体的二元论的主体。在强调个人责任和超科学倾向的前提下，可以形成新的选拔制度。

We promoted 'comparative research for new religious movements in west Japan' from 1993 through 1994, following 'comparative research for new religious movements in Kyusyu' in 1991. We widened the study range and made research on 'Tensyoukotai-jingu kyo', 'Iesu-no-hakobune', 'Oum-shinrikyo', 'Shinnyo-en', 'Megami-no-umi fellowship', 'Science of happiness', and 'Suukyo-mahikari'. The central aim of this research is, as same as the previous one, to illuminate the religious consciousness of members of each group.We have selected as a research objects 1), The one which has great infulence in this era.2), The one which mirrors of the characteristics of its area 3), Remarkably active group in these days, and which could be categolized as 'newly formed new reigion groups'. We have reflected on the characteristics of them through the reserch of the religious consciousness of the believers. This in vestigation dosen't lead us to the conclusion that these groups have origine in mistisism or magic favorites opposite to scientism. Rather, we could say the scientism which characterizes the modern society has the super-scientific tendency to unify a whole world beyond its own limitation. And the 'subject' generated from such a society is the one tryng to go beyond the modern dualism of body and soul, of individual and mass. And we pointed out when individual responsibility and super-scientific tendency are far emphasized, new selection system could be formed.