Omoto -kyo — Great Origin . A religious movement founded by Deguchi, Nao (1836 1918), a peasant woman who suffered many hardships before in 1892 receiving the first of a sequence of divine revelations from a previously little known deity Ushitora no… … A Popular Dictionary of Shinto
Mahikari — is a Japanese new religious movement (shinshūkyō), with a number of variants or offshoots, founded in 1963 by Yoshikazu Okada (岡田 良一) (1901–1974). The name Mahikari means true light in Japanese, being a compilation of the words ma (真 – true) and… … Wikipedia
Meishu-Sama — (明主様 Señor de la Luz, en japonés, como es conocido mundialmente) nació el 23 de diciembre de 1882, en el barrio de Hashiba, Tokio, Japón recibiendo el nombre de Mokichi Okada ( 岡田茂吉, también a veces transliterado del japonés como Mokiti Okada).… … Wikipedia Español
Johrei Center — es un movimiento mundial fundado el 1 de enero de 1935 por Mokichi Okada (1882 1955) conocido entre los seguidores como Meishu Sama , en el Japón. Allí el movimiento es conocido como Sekai kyūsei kyō (世界救世教 en japonés). Su concepto central es… … Wikipedia Español
Yoshikazu Okada — (岡田 良一), born February 27, 1901 in the Aoyama area of Tokyo s Minato Ward, also known as Kōtama Okada, (岡田 光玉) was the founder of a new religious movement in Japan (Shinshūkyō), generally referred to as Mahikari.Yoshikazu Okada was born into a… … Wikipedia
Church of World Messianity — The Church of World Messianity (世界救世教 Sekai Kyūsei Kyō in Japanese), abbreviated COWM, is a new religion (Shinshukyo) founded in 1935 by Mokichi Okada. The religion s key concept is Johrei, claimed to be a method of channeling divine light into… … Wikipedia
Religion in Japan — The primary religions in Japan are Buddhism and Shintō (神道, the way of the gods ). Most Japanese people do not identify as exclusively belonging to just one religion, but incorporate features of both religions into their daily lives in a process… … Wikipedia
Shinshūkyō — (新宗教?) is a Japanese term used to describe domestic new religious movements. They are also known as Shinkō shūkyō (新興宗教?) in Japanese, and are most often called simply Japa … Wikipedia
Mokichi Okada — (岡田茂吉 Okada Mokichi, 1882–1955) was the founder of the Church of World Messianity, in which he is known by the honorific title Meishū sama (明主様, lit. Lord of Light ). According to his official biography,[1] Okada was born to a poor family in… … Wikipedia
Ōmoto — ▪ Japanese religion Japanese“Great Fundamentals”also called Ōmoto kyō (“Religion of Ōmoto”) religious movement of Japan that had a large following in the period between World War I and World War II and that served as a model for numerous… … Universalium
