Religious responses to globalization in Japan: the case of the God Light Association

Abstract: This ethnography examines the impacts of globalization on the emergence, orientation, and transformation of a Japanese New Religion - the God Light Association (GLA) - over the thirty-seven years of its existence. From a popular shamanistic and neo-Buddhist religion where "speaking in...

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Contributors: Whelan, Christal 1954- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. UMI 2010
In:Year: 2007
Further subjects:B Boston University / Dept. of Anthropology Dissertations
B Thesis