Millenarianism and Nineteenth-Century New Religions: The Mormon Example

This introduction provides a brief overview of the period known as the “long nineteenth century,” which played host to and helped to shape numerous new religious movements. Highlighting the impact and occasional convergence of various political, social, and religious movements and events in both the United States and globally, this essay seeks to show that the examination of new religious movements in the nineteenth century offers a means of applying scholarship in new religious movements to religions that may be defined as “old,” while simultaneously opening new ways of understanding new religions more broadly. In the process, this overview provides background for the articles included in this special issue of Nova Religio, which explore subjects including religious utopianism; gender, politics, and Pentecostalism; Mormonism and foreign missions; and the relationships of new religious movements to visual art.

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The Acceptance of New Religions on Java in the Nineteenth Century and the Emergence of Various Muslim and Christian Currents

Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture ◽

10.32678/kawalu.v5i1.1877 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Maryse Kruithof

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Religious Context ◽

New Religions ◽

Religious Adaptation

Abstract My Ph.D.- dissertation analyzes the work of six Dutch missionaries on Java in the period of 1850 until 1920. Besides analyzing their proselytizing strategies, I reserched on the missionaries’ reflections on their work and the reformed strategies that followed those reflections and their views on the religious context they worked in as well as how they perceived the process of admission of new religions. My focus is not only on the arrival and acceptance of Christianity, but also the Islamization process of Java, since the missionaries tried to elucidate that procesin order to benefit from it. As part of my dissertation, this paper will focus on the formation of various Muslim and Christian currents in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to elucidate the process of religious adaptation on Java.

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New Religions and New Politics in Nineteenth-Century America

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. ◽

10.1002/9781118528631.ch14 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 160-172 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dan McKanan

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New Politics ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

New Religions

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The Influence of Globalization on Japanese Religion

Journal of Religion in Japan ◽

10.1163/22118349-00302002 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2-3) ◽

pp. 97-120

Author(s):

Nobutaka Inoue

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Religious Life ◽

Religious Groups ◽

Folk Beliefs ◽

Traditional Religions ◽

New Religions ◽

Japanese Religion ◽

Readiness To Adopt ◽

Modernization Process ◽

The Many

The process of globalization has significantly and unprecedentedly influenced the activities, teachings, and many other aspects of religions within Japan since the 1980s. While Christian groups have been establishing churches in Japan since the nineteenth century, one now also sees various other religious groups including Muslims from a broad range of countries establishing branch churches and mosques of their own in the country. Meanwhile the many domestic modern new religions that were established during the modernization process now find themselves operating alongside even newer types of religious groups including hyper-religions. When one observes the religious life of ordinary Japanese these days, on the surface little may seem to have changed from before globalization developed in earnest. However, the pop subcultures of the younger generations have demonstrated a readiness to adopt and rearrange elements from religious and folk cultures alien to Japan even as they eschew elements from traditional folk life. The ways in which these foreign folk beliefs and their more magical elements have entered and spread in the country are often unpredictable. Thanks to globalization, the boundaries that once existed among Japanese religions—both among the traditional religions in particular and more generally throughout the religious world as a whole—are gradually dissolving.

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