The Formation of New Religion and the Change of Region

宗教教派理论的新光：奥姆真理教和天池精机教本文首先概述了奥姆真理教的简史和对公民采取破坏性行动的指控，以及关于当代日本产生这种宗教教派的原因的论述。去年，有关奥姆真理教风流韵事的特别电视节目垄断了日本媒体，一些批评奥姆真理教的记者和学者从美国引进了“精神控制理论”。本文的第二个分析重点是破坏性邪教用来建立对信徒控制的精神控制技术。奥姆真理教的创始人和领导人涉嫌怂恿无辜的年轻人犯下可怕的罪行。然而，精神控制在概念上不能与社会化、个人交流和大众传播等其他社会互动过程区分开来。这些过程肯定塑造了个人的思想和直接的行动Towa…更多不同的观点。因此，从社会学和社会心理学的角度来看，精神控制理论是不符合逻辑的。相反，它已经被用来给某些宗教团体贴上标签。此外，在这些情况下，有时还会出现带有贬义的词‘cult’。当我们试图理解信徒的皈依和宗教活动时，我们不应该认为他们是被欺骗的，而是应该认识到他们的皈依动机和周围的情况--即使是在邪教的情况下。第三，天成教是由日本女萨满教Kawase Kayo建立的正式的小宗教教派，但最近这个教派被统一教会合并，从而使Rem。统一教会的创始人San Myong Muum被尊为Miroku-Bosatu(弥勒：据信在佛陀死后560亿年后出现的佛陀)。首先分析了1988-1996年间小教派向与统一教会有关的大教派转变的过程。其次，川端康成的生活史展现了日本近代新宗教的典型女性创立者。她没有被统一教会的成员欺骗，但她把自己的萨满教和民间信仰转化为弥勒千年。较少

New Light on the Theory of Religious Sect : A Aum-Shinrikyo and Tenchi SeikyoThis paper will first outline the brief history of Aum-Shinrikyo and the charges of destructive action towards citizens, as well as the discursive arguments about what cause produced such a religious sect in contemporary Japan. Last year, special TV programs about Aum-Shinrikyo's affairs monopolized the Japanese media, and some journalists and scholars, critical of the new religion, introduced 'Mind-Control theory' from the USA.This analysis will secondly focus on the mind-control techniques that a destructive cult uses to establish control over believers. The founder and leaders of Aum-Shinrikyo are suspected of having persuaded innocent young people to commit awful crimes. However, mind-control cannot be conceptually distinguished from other social interaction processes such as socialization, personal communication and mass communication. Those processes surely shape individual thought and direct action towa … More rd particular points of view. Therefore, the mind-control theory is not logical in terms of sociology and social phychology. Rather, it has come to be used when labeling certain religious groups. Also, the pejorative use of the word 'cult' sometimes occurs in these cases. When we try to understand the conversion and religious activities of believers, we should not consider them deceived but realize their motivation and the circumstances surrounding their conversion -- even in the case of a cult.Third, Tenchiseikyo was formally small religious sect established by a Japanese female shamanist, Kawase Kayo, however recently this sect was merged by the Unification Church, so that the Rem. San Myong Muum, the founder of the Unification Church, are respected as the Miroku-bosatu (Maitreya : the Buddha who is believed to appear in future, 56 billion years after the dead of Buddha). The analysis firstly focuses on the process of reformation of the small religious sect into the large sect related to the Unification Church from 1988 to 1996. Secondly, the life history of Kawase Kayo shows the typical female founder of new religion in modern Japan. She was not deceived by the member of Unificaiton Church, but she converted her shamanistic and folk belief into Maitreya millennium. Less