Kurozumikyō
Kurozumikyō ( Japanese 黒 住 教 , dt "Kurozumi religion") is one of the new religions in Japan . The Kurozumikyō is largely based on traditions of the Japanese Shintō belief.
history
The Shinto priest Muneteda Kurozumi announced that on December 22, 1814 (the 11th day of the 11th lunar month of the 11th year of the Bunka era ) he had a divine union with Amaterasu , sun goddess and supreme goddess of the Shinto pantheon , and is now valid as the founder of faith. The formal foundations of the sect were not laid until 1846, when Kurozumi and his oldest disciples convened the Osadamegaki and at that time established the tenets of belief, the values and rules underlying the belief. State registration as a Shinto sect followed in the same year .
The sect originated in the area of what is now Okayama Prefecture and its religious and missionary activities were initially tolerated by the ruling nobles of the district, as the rules of the new faith did not conflict with the rules practiced there and certainly did not endanger their secular power.
At the beginning of modern times in Japan, the time of the Meiji Restoration , in 1868 Kurozumikyō had already gained followers in Kyūshū and in southwestern and western Honshū as far as Tōkyō . In 1876 the Faith became separate from the Shinto Affairs Bureau and the sect built its own shrine , Munetada Shrine , in Okayama .
Due to the inability to adapt to modern developments in Japan, the sect lost followers and its membership stagnated. In 1978 the sect reported 218,000 followers.
Beliefs
These are honesty, hard work, selflessness and adherence to the existing social order. The followers proclaim a comprehensive brotherhood of all human beings and (almost) profess a monotheism , which however also contains polytheistic and pantheistic views.
literature
- Günter Lanczkowski: History of the non-Christian religions . Fischer Lexicon. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-24564-8 . Pages 204-207.
- Murakami Shigeyoshi: Kōdansha Encyclopedia of Japan , "Kurozomikyō", Kōdansha Ltd., Tōkyō 1985