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Year: 2012
Type: Theoretical study
Topic: Scientific Views and Concepts
Category: Others
Subcategory: History, Religion, Oriental studies, Spiriruality; Yoga; Qi Gong, Energy Healing
Publication language:
Title: The Japanese New Religious Practices of jōrei and okiyome in the Context of Asian Spiritual Healing Traditions
Authors: Justin B. Stein
Location:
Canada - Independent Research Paper
Reference:
Justin B.Stein "The Japanese New Religious Practices of jōrei and okiyome in the Context of Asian Spiritual Healing Traditions"; Japanese Religions, Vol. 37 (1 & 2): 115-141; 2012 https://www.academia.edu/2702309/The_Japanese_New_Religious_Practices_of_j%C5%8Drei_and_okiyome_in_the_Context_of_Asian_Spiritual_Healing_Traditions
Abstract:
In generalizations about the healing practices of the new religions, Jōrei and Okiyome, the purification rituals of Sekai Kyūsei-kyō, Shinji Shumei-kai, and Mahikari, have been mislabeled as forms of faith healing. According to the cosmologies, leadership, and membership of these groups, these techniques do not require faith, but in fact are the source of faith due to their empirically verifiable results.

This paper contextualizes these practices and their underlying cosmologies and etiologies, by placing them in a history of Japanese religious thought and practice and by contrasting them with yogic healing, qigong, and Reiki: other Asian spiritual practices that also claim to heal the sick through the manipulation of invisible, cosmic energies.

It concludes that these religions’ conceptions of purity and pollution, inherited from Ōmoto-kyō, is significantly different from those of the dominant Japanese religious traditions, and that the emphasis on purity distinguishes these practices from the other spiritual healing practices, which emphasize balance.
Résumé :
Dans les généralisations sur les pratiques de guérison des nouvelles religions, Jōrei et Okiyome, les rituels de purification de Sekai Kyūsei-kyō, Shinji Shumei-kai et Mahikari, ont été qualifiés à tort de formes de guérison par la foi. Selon les cosmologies, les dirigeants et les membres de ces groupes, ces techniques ne requièrent pas la foi, mais sont en fait la source de la foi en raison de leurs résultats empiriquement vérifiables.

Cet article contextualise ces pratiques et leurs cosmologies et étiologies sous-jacentes, en les replaçant dans l'histoire de la pensée et des pratiques religieuses japonaises et en les comparant à la guérison yogique, au qigong et au reiki : d'autres pratiques spirituelles asiatiques qui prétendent également guérir les malades par la manipulation d'énergies invisibles et cosmiques.

Il conclut que les conceptions de la pureté et de la pollution de ces religions, héritées de l'Ōmoto-kyō, sont sensiblement différentes de celles des traditions religieuses japonaises dominantes, et que l'accent mis sur la pureté distingue ces pratiques des autres pratiques de guérison spirituelle, qui mettent l'accent sur l'équilibre.
Link: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/35167880/download_file?s=portfolio