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野口整体のコミュニケーション：伝統医療とその共同体による昭和期日本の医療と社会システムの補完

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Tanojiri T.

Analecta Nipponica

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2017

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issue 7

131-155

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The aim of this article is to show the communication between the health promoting religious movements and the Japanese state and society in the Shōwa period. Following the American Occupation, the communication originating from Noguchi’s life-health movement proved to help stabilize the social health system in Japan. In the early Shōwa period many groups within Japanese society – from the royal family and the aristocrats to the common citizens – kept themselves in good health through implementing specific reijutsu techniques. The name reijutsu stands for the pro-health/religious movement started by Kuwabara Toshirō (1873-1906), the author of Seishin Reidō (The Excellent Work of the Mind, 1903), which encompassed Western writings on Theosophy, chiromancy, osteopathy and traditional Japanese religious pro-health techniques like shugendō or anma massage. Many schools of reijutsu were at the peak of their popularity in the 1920’s. One of them, taireidō of Tanaka Morihei (1884–1928), also gained popularity in China becoming the foundation for contemporary Chinese qigong breathing exercises. The form that won popularity in the West, due to Japanese emigrants to Hawaii, was reiki. In the 1930’s Mitsui Kōshi (1883–1953) developed reijutsu into a system combining politics and Japanese traditional waka poetry, a system that was aimed at the unity of a human being with the emperor and the universe. As for Mitsui, he became a prominent political figure until 1945. Later the reijutsu movement failed to find continuators. The passing away of charismatic leaders resolved in the dissolution of the reijutsu societies. The exceptions were the reiki movement – which gained global popularity and was subsequently reintroduced to Japan in the 1980’s, and the Noguchi Seitai (Noguchi’s technique) movement. Noguchi Seitai is a pro-health/religious movement founded in Tokyo in 1927 by Noguchi Haruchika (1911–1976). The movement functioned at first as a psychotherapy group, a modification of reijutsu. In the year 1942 the movement was examined by the Ministry of Health committee for osteopathic practices. It established its legal standing as a foundation and was registered as the Seitai Kyōkai (Seitai Association) in 1956. Nowadays it is a public profit organization. The presidents of the organization are former members of the aristocracy or former prime ministers, maintaining a quality and high profile for all of Japanese society. Starting from the 1980’s the organization obtained major support from the young population, since they saw it as a leading force within the Japanese New Age movement. Currently the Association claims around 80 thousand active members, and it is believed the number of people practicing privately, though they do not belong to the organization, is ten times greater. Noguchi Seitai is a movement that is still active today due to excellent communication between the movement and the Japanese state and society established in the Shōwa period. Just as in the case of other reijutsu forms, Noguchi’s transmission is characterized by specific techniques involving physical practices, studying difficult philosophical concepts and painstaking self-development, which has at times caused tension in dealings with police and other state institutions. However, Noguchi Seitai, due to the communication with the state as well as the citizens established during the occupation period, made it so that after the year 1953, the movement became a so called “stabilizing dysfunction” from the sociological perspective, and took on the role of supplementing the Japanese social health system.

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Sbírka kvakerské literatury ve fondu Knihovny AV ČR, v. v. i

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Kučerová M.

Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)

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2017

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vol. 24

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issue 1-2

67-121

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The article presents the unique collection of Quaker literature in the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It comprises 209 books printed between 1648 and 1946, acquired by the married couple Libuše Ambrosová and Miloš Vejchoda-Ambros during their stay in England in 1940-1946.

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Breve historia de la religiosidad hindú en Chile

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LUARTE CORREA F.

Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review

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2017

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issue 20

245-260

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Como consecuencia de la globalización, la sociedad chilena ha experimentado una serie de cambios y transformaciones socioculturales y religiosas. Así, en las últimas décadas, hemos adoptado y adaptado nuevas prácticas e ideas de inspiración hinduista, que se han sumado a las costumbres tradicionales y oficiales, principalmente cristiano-católicas y cristiano-evangélicas, creando nuevas formas religiosas (y seculares), que son eclécticas en sus orígenes y expresiones. En Chile, durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, nacen (y coexisten) di-versos movimientos y comunidades que se autodefinen como hindúes y/o que realizan, directa o indirectamente, manifestaciones propias o inspiradas en el hinduismo, tales como yoga(s), meditaciones, entre muchas otras. A partir de lo anterior, este artículo tiene por objeto historiar este proceso de recepción y adaptación de las “creencias y prácticas” de origen hindú en Chile durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, al tiempo que se pretende explicar conceptualmente es-te fenómeno.

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As a consequence of Globalization, Chilean society has experienced se¬veral changes and has acquired and adapted new practices and ideas of Hindu inspiration, which have been incorporated to the traditional and official customs, mainly Christian –Catholic and Evangelical. This has created new religious forms (and secular ones), that are eclectic in its origins and expressions. In Chile, during the second half of the 20th century, several movements and communities that define themselves as Hindus or that practice, directly or indirectly, their own manifestations inspired in Hinduism, such as yoga(s) or meditations (among many others), are born and coexist. Considering this, the aim of this paper is “to historize” this process of receptions and adaptations of the “practices and beliefs” of Hindu origin in Chile during the second half of the 20th century, and at the same time, it intends to conceptually explain these phenomena.

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Ruch Focolari wobec współczesnego kryzysu tożsamości

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Pawliszak P.

Roczniki Nauk Społecznych

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2003

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vol. 31

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issue 1

91-118

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The Focolari movement – one of the largest, dynamically developed, international, Catholic movements of revitalization – was in the period of years (1995-2000) the subject matter of research. The research made use of a number of qualitative methods. Thus the process of creating a collective identity was reconstructed. Moreover, the organizational actions were shown as regards the presentation and promotion of the specific appeal to convert, and its related patterns of involvement and social identities. The Focolari movement was established as a result of individual quest after an alternative form of religious commitment within the Catholic Church. This individual quest was then transformed into a collective quest. The process of initial conversion of a fellowship had brought about foundations for the collective identity and a common mission of the movement. Under the leadership of a charismatic leader it was developed and referred to the post-conciliar reforms of Catholicism and the problems of modern societies. By virtue of an effective organization, with the use of modern means of communication, the movement extends its appeal for a multicultural, interfaith, world-view dialogue, and cooperation in the private and public spheres. It disseminates also alternative patterns of religious and lay social identities, which supplement of the offer of conventional religious and lay institutions.

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野口整体のコミュニケーション：伝統医療とその共同体による昭和期日本の医療と社会システムの補完

Sbírka kvakerské literatury ve fondu Knihovny AV ČR, v. v. i

Breve historia de la religiosidad hindú en Chile

Ruch Focolari wobec współczesnego kryzysu tożsamości