コロナで中止された国際宗教史学会の発表要旨

<Title> The Founder of Tenrikyo and Violence

In the studies of Japanese new religions, researchers avoided treating the complex relationship between religion and violence. The Founder of Tenrikyo, Nakayama Miki (1798-1887), in her old age, often had race of strength with male believers, and she defeated them easily. For this, she claimed that the parent god bestowed her double strength. By using positivistic historical approach, I argue that the founder had to do this in order to try to stop violence of believers and to prevent her religious movement, which aimed to launch salvation for socially weak and poor its prime ideology, turning to another real riots by the poor. It also argues that in the issue of gender violence, the founder did not advocate that wives should respect and obey husbands. This study will contribute to the cross-cultural study of the complex relationship between religion and violence.