Bibliography of Tenrikyo

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This article presents a selected bibliography of Tenrikyo , a Japanese new religion.

Contents

Tenrikyo texts

Scriptures

Supplements to scriptures

Catechism of Tenrikyo

In 1966, the Catechism of Tenrikyo was first published in English. The catechism follows a concise question and answer format. The second revised English edition was published in 1973. The third revised English edition, published in 1979, contains 42 pages with a total of 78 questions and answers and a supplemental section titled "The Truth of the Creation". [1]

Other language versions of the catechism are:

  • Spanish: Catecismo de Tenrikyo (1974) (78 questions and answers, with a lengthy supplemental section)
  • German: Was Lehrt die Tenrikyo (1974) (78 questions and answers)
  • French: Catechisme de Tenrikyo (1989) (74 questions and answers, with a supplemental section titled "Histoire de la création")
  • Traditional Chinese: 信仰問答 [Xìnyǎng Wèndá] (1972, revised 1986) (75 questions and answers in the revised 1986 edition)

Studies on Tenrikyo texts

Ofudesaki

Mikagura-uta

Osashizu

The Doctrine of Tenrikyo

The Life of Oyasama

Other publications

Overview

By non-Tenrikyo writers

  • Bernier, Bernard (1975). Breaking the cosmic circle: religion in a Japanese village. Cornell University East Asia Papers. Vol. 5. Ithaca, New York: China-Japan Program, Cornell University. pp. 188 p.
  • Blackwood, Robert T. (1964). Tenrikyo: a living religion. Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department.
  • Chinnery, Thora E. (1971). Religious conflict and compromise in a Japanese village: a first-hand observation of the Tenrikyo Church. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia.
  • Earhart, H. Byron (1974). "Tenrikyo: the inspiration of a living-god". Religion in the Japanese experience: sources and interpretations . Encino, California: Dickenson Pub. Co. ISBN   978-0822101048.
  • Earhart, H. Byron (1982). "Tenrikyo: a living kami and a joyous life". Japanese religion: unity and diversity. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN   978-0534010287.
  • Ellwood, Robert, S. (1974). "Tenrikyo, the religion of heavenly wisdom". The eagle and the rising sun: Americans and the new religions of Japan. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN   978-0664207076.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Ellwood, Robert, S. (1982). Tenrikyo, a Pilgrimage Faith: The Structure and Meanings of a Modern Japanese Religion. Tenri, Japan: Tenri University Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Greene, D. (1895). Tenrikyo, or the Teaching of the Heavenly Reason. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 23(5), 24-74.
  • Holtom, Daniel Clarence (1938). "The faith-healing sects: Tenri Kyo". The National Faith of Japan. K. Paul, Trench, Trubner. pp. 267–286.
  • Newell, William H.; Dobashi, Fumiko (1968). Morioka, Kiyomi; Newell, William H. (eds.). "Some problems of classification in religious sociology as shown in the history of Tenri Kyokai". International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology. 6: 84–100.
  • Offner, Clark B.; van Straelen, Henry (1963). "Tenrikyo, the religion of divine wisdom". Modern Japanese religions: with special emphasis upon their doctrines of healing. Twayne Publishers, Inc.
  • Reader, Ian (1993). "The New Religions of Japan". Japanese Religions: Past and Present. University of Hawaii Press.
  • van Straelen, H. (1954). The Religion of Divine Wisdom: Japan's Most Powerful Religious Movement. Folklore Studies, 13, 1-166.
  • Thomsen, Harry (1963). "The 'old' new religion: Tenrikyo". The new religions of Japan. C.E. Tuttle Co. ISBN   978-0804804264.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  • Wilson, Bryan R. (1979). "The new religions: some preliminary considerations". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 6 (1/2): 193–216. doi: 10.18874/jjrs.6.1-2.1979.193-216 .

By Tenrikyo writers

  • Nishiyama, Teruo 西山輝夫 (1981). Introduction to the Teachings of Tenrikyo. Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department. (Original work published 1973) (Japanese title: 天理教入門)
  • Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department (1966). Tenrikyo: Its History and Teachings. Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department. (Japanese title: 天理教:その歴史と教義)
  • Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department (1986). The Teachings and History of Tenrikyo. Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department. (Japanese title: 天理教要覧)
  • Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department (1998). Tenrikyo: The Path to Joyousness. Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department. (Japanese title: 天理教 陽気づくめの道)
  • Tenrikyo Young Men's Association (2006). Questions and Answers about Tenrikyo (Tenrikyo Overseas Department, Trans.). Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Overseas Department. (Original work published 1990) (Japanese title: 信仰問答集)

Biographies and anecdotes

Photograph of Tenrikyo leader Nakagawa Yoshi (Zhong Chuan yoshi, 1869-1922) Zhong Chuan yoshi - Nakagawa Yoshi.jpg
Photograph of Tenrikyo leader Nakagawa Yoshi (中川よし, 1869-1922)

Church history

Interreligious/Comparative

Glossaries

Theology

Shinbashira's sermons, addresses, talks

Academic journals

Tenrikyo has been the subject of several articles in the following academic journals:

Tenrikyo periodicals

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A collection of Fukugen journals

Other bibliographies

Footnotes

  1. The Oyasato Research Institute, Tenri University (1979). Catechism of Tenrikyo. Tenri: Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department.
  2. Contains biographies and anecdotes of: Gisaburo Nakata (仲田儀三郎), Chusaku Tsuji (辻忠作), Chushichi Yamanaka (山中忠七), Izo Iburi (飯降伊蔵), Ryojiro and Tamezo Yamazawa (山沢良治郎・為造), Isaburo Masui (桝井伊三郎), Kisaburo Maegawa (前川喜三郎), Jujiro Okamoto (岡本重治郎), Ichibei Matsuo (松尾市兵衞), Jirokichi Kita (喜多治郎吉), Eijiro Matsumura (松村栄治郎), Tokichi Izumita (泉田藤吉), Risaburo Yamamoto (山本利三郎), Yahei Nishiura (西浦彌平), Rin Masui (増井りん), Tsuchisaburo Itakura (板倉槌三郎), Kajiro Ueda (上田嘉治郎), Yosaburo Miyamori (宮森與三郎), Naokichi Takai (高井直吉), Umejiro Izutsu (井筒梅治郎), Unosuke Tosa (土佐卯之助), Otojiro Matsuda (松田音次郎), Shirobei Umetani (梅谷四郎兵衞), Ihachiro Yamada (山田伊八郎), Genjiro Fukaya (深谷源次郎), Chuzaburo Koda (鴻田忠三郎), Komakichi Komatsu (小松駒吉), Kunisaburo Moroi (諸井國三郎), Sasuke Uehara (上原佐助), Yonosuke Shimizu (清水與之助), Kichisaburo Uemura (上村吉三郎), Shobei Masuno (増野正兵衞), Narazo Hirano (平野楢蔵)