A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE GLOBALIZATION OF JAPANESE NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

为了收集日本新宗教运动全球化的定量数据，我们向240个新宗教团体发出了调查问卷。同时，我们走访了一些具有显著特点的日本新宗教团体，如天正、关爱、天理教，以收集一些详细的数据。这些调查给我们提供了一些关于日本新宗教在海外活动的大致情况：1.日本新宗教团体成功地从世界各地获得了100多万信徒，但不得不说，他们的传播政策还没有明确。2.由于他们的信仰是由每个信徒的主动传播的，所以他们的活动在北美和南美或东南亚等一些地区被强化和泛化，3.最近，一些团体决定在中央办公厅的倡议下进行海外活动：新加坡国际集团、天寿高台金国集团、新日本经济集团、PL-kyodan集团就是典型的代表。

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.