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Modern Japanese Religions
With this study goes the authors' desire that this publication may serve to deepen the reader's understanding of new religious currents in present day Japan and thus shed some more light on the kaleidoscopic religious scene of this island empire. The New Religions - as their name indicates sufficiently - are no obsolete systems from a vanished past, appealing only to the poetic sentiment like primitive Buddhism or like the religion of Greece. On the contrary, these religions confront us with great vitality, sufficient to attract at least 15% of the Japanese population.
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