KurozumikyÅ
Kurozumikyō (Japanese黒 住 教, dt " Kurozumi religion" ) is one of the new religions in Japan. The Kurozumikyō is based to a large extent on traditions of Japanese Shinto faith.
History
To have the Shinto priest Muneteda Kurozumi, who announced on December 22, 1814 a divine union with the sun goddess Amaterasu and supreme goddess of the Shinto pantheon had, was the founder of the faith. The formal foundations of the sect were laid until 1846, when Kurozumi and his oldest students convening the Osadamegaki and at this time the beliefs that defined the belief underlying values and rules. This was followed in the same year a state registration as a Shinto sect.
The sect originated in the territory of modern Okayama Prefecture and their religious and missionary activities were tolerated at the beginning of the ruling nobles of the district, as the rules of the new faith was not unlike the practiced there rules and certainly not risk their temporal power.
At the beginning of the modern period in Japan, the time of the Meiji Restoration in 1868 Kurozumikyō had already won followers in Kyushu and the southwestern and western Honshu until after Tōkyō. 1876, the belief was out of the office for Shintoangelegenheiten and the sect built in Okayama their own shrine, the shrine Munetada.
Due to the lack of ability to adapt to the modern developments in Japan, lost the sect followers, their membership stagnated. 1978 reported the sect 218,000 followers.
Beliefs
These are honesty, hard work, selflessness and adherence to the existing social order. The trailer announce a comprehensive brotherhood of all men and profess ( almost ) to a monotheism, but also contains polytheistic and pantheistic beliefs.