2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF POPULAR MIND CURES IN MODERN JAPAN
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24520075
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Religious studies
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| Research Institution | Maizuru National College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HIRANO Naoko 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 助手 (10608433)
TSUKADA Hotaka 國學院大学, その他部局, 助教 (40580395)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 精神療法 / 霊術 / 太霊道 / 霊気 / ラマチャラカ / 田中守平 / 臼井甕男 / 三井甲之 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project dealt with popular “psychotherapies” (seishin ryoho or reijutsu), which were akin to “mind-cure” in the USA. These therapies were in vogue from the end of the Meiji era to the early years of the Showa era. We found that the practices of the therapies were heavily influenced by the hypnotism of KUWABARA Toshiro, as well as the yogic breathing of Ramacharaka and other New Thought practices from America. We also found that the lack of meditative practices in the Confucianism modernized by INOUE Tetsujiro opened the way to the boom of self-cultivation (shuyo), like OKADA Torajiro's still-sitting method. The combination of Kuwabara’s psychical interpretation of “mind power” (seishin ryoku) and the physical practices of shuyo produced the practices of seishin ryoho. Based on these findings, we pursued the research into two representative seishin ryoho―Taireido and USUI Mikao’s Reiki Ryoho―and succeeded in clarifying the genealogy of Reiki Healing in the USA.
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| Free Research Field |
宗教学
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