Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements. Edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume 16. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2018, Pp. xiv + 620. Hardback, $240.00; eBook, $ 217.00.

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-492
Author(s):  
David W. Kim
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Contemporary Religion

Les nouvelles religions aux Pays-Bas. Contexte, appartenance, réactions

1983 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan M. van der Lans ◽  
Frans Derks
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements

In this report we give a broad on overview of the situation of the situation of the new religious movements in the Netherlands.

De openbaringen van Jozef Rulof in eschatologisch perspectief

2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-320
Author(s):  
Klaran Visscher
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Early 20Th Century

This article addresses the case of Jozef Rulof, one of the representatives of new religious movements in the early 20th century in the Netherlands. Self-proclaimed prophet and medium in the service of the ‘Cosmic Masters from the Other Side’, he urged his contemporaries to welcome a new cosmic age that would give the initial impetus to the Kingdom of God on Earth - to be realised by humankind itself. In his thinking, strongly based upon the concepts of reincarnation and karma, the end of times refers to the ‘fading’ of the planet as a logical step in the evolutionary development of both humanity and universe.

scholarly journals The Unificationist Funerary Tradition

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 258
Author(s):  
Lukas Pokorny
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
South Korean

This paper explores the distinctive funerary tradition of the Unification Movement, a globally active South Korean new religious movement founded in 1954. Its funerary tradition centres on the so-called Seonghwa (formerly Seunghwa) Ceremony, which was introduced in January 1984. The paper traces the doctrinal context and the origin narrative before delineating the ceremony itself in its Korean expression, including its preparatory and follow-up stages, as well as its short-lived adaptation for non-members. Notably, with more and more first-generation adherents passing away—most visibly in respect to the leadership culminating in the Seonghwa Ceremony of the founder himself in 2012—the funerary tradition has become an increasingly conspicuous property of the Unificationist lifeworld. This paper adds to a largely uncharted area in the study of East Asian new religious movements, namely the examination of their distinctive deathscapes, as spelled out in theory and practice.

Of God and Neighbors

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Jason Paul Greenberger ◽  
Lee Gyungwon
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
National Sovereignty

Historically, Korea and Vietnam have been in the unenviable position of being surrounded by powerful neighbors who at times descend upon them as colonizers or occupying forces. East Asian new religious movements such as Daesoon Jinrihoe and Caodaism offer unique insights into each country’s national sentiments regarding such historicities. In particular, the painting in Daesoon Jinrihoe titled Five Immortals Playing Baduk (五仙圍碁 Oseon Wigi), and the painting in Caodaism titled The Three Saints (三聖 Tam Thánh) are strikingly similar in the manner in which both countries depict a national representative alongside foreign representatives. Generally speaking, Five Immortals Playing Baduk can be seen as providing a subtle and provocative critique of foreign interference, whereas The Three Saints has integral, reconciliatory, and diplomatic overtones. Sociological insight can be gained from analyzing the national sovereignty depicted in these paintings and related scriptural passages as a supernatural compensator as understood in Rational Choice Theory.

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