Tenri Journal of Religion

The Tenri Journal of Religion is an academic journal published by the Oyasato Institute for the Study of Religion.

Publication list

Issue number	Publication date	Articles
1	March 1955	Yoshinori MOROI: The Principal of Religion: On the Starting Point of the Science of Religion Tadamasa FUKAYA: The Fundamental Doctrines of Tenrikyo Masayoshi SHONAGO: The Philippine Islands as Viewed from a Religious and Social Standpoint, especially before the Introduction of Christianity Ikken NATSUME: Various Phases of Revelation in Taoism Takashi NAKAMURA: Report of the Visit of Inspection to Formosa in 1659 Chikashi KURODA: A Note on the Lankavatara Sutra
2	December 1959	Yoshinori MOROI: Stratum of Types in Religious Thought – Grasping the Religious Philosophy of Judaism – Hitoo MARUKAWA: Sexual Observance as a Religious Rite in Japan Hideo NAKAJIMA: The Conception of Death in Tenrikyo – Idea of Passing Away for Rebirth Akinori OKUBO: The Problems of Social Work by Religious Organization – Some Selected Observations on the Salvation Army in Chicago – Makita TOMINAGA: Outline of the Tenri Central Library – Especially on the Collection of Records Relating to Early Christian Mission in Japan – Chikashi KURODA: Some Words Used in Padyalalitavistara
3	June 1961	Shozen NAKAYAMA: The Various Forms of Verbal Evolution in Tenrikyo Doctrine Shozen NAKAYAMA: Woman’s Position Viewed by Tenrikyo Yoshinori MOROI: Das Religiöse Glauben – Eine Untersuchung seiner sprachlichen Struktur – Makita TOMINAGA: On Ascendonica Roman, A Kind of Type Faces Used in the Christian Mission Press in Japan in the 16th Century Tomoji TAKANO: World-Wide Joyous Life Hitoo MARUKAWA: On a Kind of Established Form of Invocation Peculiar Japanese Religions Hideo NAKAJIMA: The Fundamentary of Tenrikyo’s View of the Salvation Kunio YAMAMOTO: On “A Thing Lent, A Thing Borrowed” – With reference to disease – Akinori OKUBO: On the Treatment for the Feeble-Minded People in Japan
4	June 1962	Shozen NAKAYAMA: The Doctrine and Practice of Tenrikyo (Part I) Hitoo MARUKAWA: On Specific Votive Offerings in Japanese Religions Tomoji TAKANO: I want to become such a man of the belief – Memories of Some Predecessors of Tenrikyo Masao ISHIZAKI: A Sketch of the Religious Development of Incantation Teruaki IIDA: Tenrikyo and Humanism Osamu SUZUKI: Gilt Iron Muzzle of Mediaeval Japan and Its Foreign Analogue Satoshi SHIONOYA: Sidney Gulick as a Missionary Akinori OKUBO: Poor-Relief and Social Security System in Japan An Introduction to the Tenrikyo Canons Shigeru SERIZAWA: Ofudesaki Hiromi NAGAO: Mikagurauta Hideo NAKAJIMA: Osashizu
5	June 1963	Shozen NAKAYAMA: The Doctrine and Practice of Tenrikyo (Part II) Hitoo MARUKAWA: Laughter of Gods Hideo NAKAJIMA: On the Teaching of “Things Lent, Things Borrowed” – The Foundation of the Problem of Faith – Shigeru SERIZAWA: On “Osatoshi” – A Problem of Conveying Teachings – Teruaki IIDA: Tenrikyo and Humanism – Humanism and the Meaning of Corporality – Akio KIMURA: Humanität und Religiosität in Hartmann Akio INOUE: A Comparative Study in Buddhism and Existentialism Satoshi SHIONOYA: Sidney Gulick’s Progressive Idea
6	June 1964	Shozen NAKAYAMA: The Doctrine and Practice of Tenrikyo (Part III) Hitoo MARUKAWA: Doso-jin, a Syncretized God Osamu SUZUKI: Cylindrical Amulet in the Shosoin Repository and its Affinities in East and West Hideo NAKAJIMA: The Logic of Faith “Hinagata” of the Divine Model Shigeru SERIZAWA: “The Sweeping of Dust” (Mental Purification) – A Problem of Conveying Teachings – Yoshitomo HIRAI: Miyaza – On the Ancient Customs and Transition of the Privileged Rights of Rituals in the Village Communities of Japan Akinori OKUBO: “Counselling” in Tenrikyo Hiroyoshi KISHIMOTO: Herbert Read and Religion Satoshi SHIONOYA: Some Problems of Christian Studies
7	December 1965	Shozen NAKAYAMA: The Anniversary of the Tenrikyo Foundress: Its History and Significance Osamu SUZUKI: Chinese Stone Lions in Tenri Museum – A Study of Animal Art in China– Toshio YAMAMOTO: Tenrikyo and Medicine – The Idea of Salvation in Our Religion Keisuke KANEKO: Pilgrimage through Shrines and Temples in Yamato Province Hideo NAKAJIMA: The Basic Structure of the Idea of Salvation in Tenrikyo Chikashi KURODA: Goju-Soden (Quintuple Inheritance) – Initiation into the Arcana of the Jodoshu Doctrines – Yoshihide MURAKAMI: W.H. Medhurst in the History of Chinese Linguistics Teruaki IIDA: Mikagura-uta, Psalms for the Sacred Dance of Tenrikyo – A Trial Translation in French
8	May 1967	Shozen NAKAYAMA: The Doctrine and Practice of Tenrikyo (Part IV) – Concerning the Church – Hideo NAKAJIMA: The Basic Structure of Revelation in Tenrikyo Doctrine Keisuke KANEKO: On the Returning Home to “Jiba” – An Aspect of the Pilgrimage through Shrines and Temples in Yamato during the Meiji Era – Teruaki IIDA: A Note on Humanism and Tenrikyo Taketeru MATSUDA: Obiyayurushi (The Grant of Safe Childbirth) – Taboos in Childbirth in Japan and Relief by God the Parent – Chikashi KURODA: Omizu-okuri (Sending of the Sacred Water) Taketo HASHIMOTO: On the Consistency of Beliefs and Behavior – A Perceptual Approach to Religious Maturity Satoshi SHIONOYA: Sidney Gulick’s Attitude to the Religions in Japan
9	October 1968	Hideo NAKAJIMA: Some Problems on the Idea of God in Tenrikyo Teruaki IIDA: Idea of Evolution in the Creation Story of Tenrikyo Doctrine Hajime HIRASAWA: Tenrikyo Followers’ Views of Disease Seen from Patients with Malignant Tumors Shigeru MATSUMOTO: The Social Gospel in the United States and Japan – With Special Reference to Walter Rauschenbush and Kagawa Toshihiko – Masao ISHIZAKI: Note on the Miwayama Mt. Cult
10	October 1969	Hideo NAKAJIMA: The Frame of the Logic of Faith – Based on Hinagata or the Divine Model of the Foundress of Tenrikyo – Teruaki IIDA: The Concept of Progress in Tenrikyo Yuichi SAWAI: The Methods and Task of Sermon Tadashi KANEKO: The Ethical Meaning of Mikagura-uta Shigeru SERIZAWA: Preliminary Note on the Exposition of Ofudesaki Shigeru MATSUMOTO: The Meaning of Sacred Places, as Phenomenologists of Religion Understand It Satoshi SHIONOYA: Sidney Gulick’s Missionary Work in Japan Hitoo MARUKAWA: The Diffusion of the “Tenjin” Worship and the Development of Popular Ideas for Miracles done by the God
11	December 1970	Shigeru SERIZAWA: Systematic Description in the Ofudesaki Yuichi SAWAI: A Memorandum on the Danjiai or “Discussion” Keisuke KANEKO: The Growth and Development of Early Tenrikyo Churches in the Koto District of Shiga Prefecture Hideo NAKAJIMA: On Some Problems in the Classification of Shinto Hitoo MARUKAWA: Religious Circumstances in the Late Tokugawa and the Early Meiji Periods – Religious Backgrounds in the Cradle Years of Tenrikyo Satoshi SHIONOYA: Kanzo Uchimura’s View of Missions Chikashi KURODA: “Wasan” (Buddhist Hymns in Japanese) Masao ISHIZAKI: The Primitive Cult of Kasugayama
12	May 1975	Toyoaki UEHARA: Mohammed, The Hero of the Consciousness
13	August 1979	Carl B. BECKER: Concepts and Roles of God in Tenrikyo Taketo HASHIMOTO: The Teaching of Innen in Tenrikyo Satoshi SHIONOYA: Tenrikyo’s Future Missionary Work Bruce A. KIMBALL: The Problem of Epistemology in Japanese New Religions Masaaki OKITA: Ancient Ritual – around the Excavations unearthed from the Furu Site in Tenri, Nara Pref. – Hitoshi MIYAKE: One Aspect of the Japanese Idea of God – around the Kumano Gongen –
14	December 1980	Kazuta KURAUCHI: On the Story of Creation Shigeru SERIZAWA: Missions as Seen in the Ofudesaki Louise W. SASAKI: The Tenrikyo Sacred Dance – The Symbolic Use of Movement – Makoto HIRAKI: On Prayers in the Tonghak-ism of Korea – A Religious Movement in 19th Century Korea – John B. CARMAN: Comparative Religion: How and Why? Supplement Volume Louise W. SASAKI: The Tenrikyo Sacred Dance – The Song Text and Dance Movements –
15	October 1981	Kazuta KURAUCHI: Space and Time in “The Creation of Man” Akinori OKUBO: A Study of Social Welfare in Tenrikyo Taketo HASHIMOTO: The Kagura Service – Its Structure and Meaning – Robert S. ELLWOOD: Models, Metaphors, and Religious Movements Toyoaki UEHARA: The Shinto Myth – Meaning, Symbolism, and Individuation – Haruo IWATA: Johannes Laube, OYAGAMI, die heutige Gottesvorstellung der Tenrikyo [Review]
16	October 1982	Akinori OKUBO: Social Welfare and Practicality of Hinokishin of Tenrikyo – A Proposal to the International Year of Disabled Person – Katsuyuki SASADA: On Hinagata, The Divine Model of Oyasama Toshio UENO: A Study on a Scribbling Diary Yorozu-oboe-Nikki, The Memorandum Diary – The Economic Conditions of the Nakayama Family in the Bunkyu Era Pino MARRAS: Tenrikyo as “Mission” – Reflections from outside – Teruaki IIDA: The Eschatological Thoughts and the Historical View of Tenrikyo Harumi NAKAMURA: The Independent Christian Churches in Taiwan Toyoaki UEHARA: The Shinto Myth – Meaning, Symbolism, and Individuation –
17	October 1983	Tadamasa FUKAYA: One Truth – The Principle of Unification and Salvation of the Human World – Pino MARRAS: Man World God: Tenrikyo Anthropological, Cosmic and Theological Perspectives – Reflections from the outside – Shigeru MATSUMOTO: On the Essential Significance of Oyasama – How we should become close to Her – Bart STROUPE: Healing in the History of Tenrikyo, the Religion of Divine Wisdom Hideo NAKAJIMA: Between Individuality and Self-Styled Faith Shigeru SERIZAWA: Historical Facts Concerning Self-Styled Beliefs in Tenrikyo and Reflections upon Our Faith Toyoaki UEHARA: The Shinto Myth – Meaning, Symbolism, and Individuation –
18	November 1984	Masao ISHIZAKI: A Historical Background of Yokigurashi (Joyous Life) Kenji NIIDA: The Legal Environment Surrounding the Foundress of Tenrikyo – With Special Emphasis on Criminal Law – Koji SATO: Salvation Through Tenrikyo’s Service (Tsutome) Masaaki HAYASAKA: Issues surrounding the Official Recognition of the Religious Organizations of Tenrikyo and Konkokyo Toshiharu MORII: “The Truth of Creation” – As an Identity of Man – Hotshi MIYAKE: Revitalization of Traditional Religion – Belief and Practice of Gedatsukai– Toyoaki UEHARA: The Shinto Myth – Meaning, Symbolism, and Individuation –
19	November 1985	Toshiharu MORII: “The Truth of Creation” II – Its Symbolism in Search of Human Identity Shiro IKEDA: A Position from Whence the Remarkable Can Be Seen – An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Wonderful Salvation Yoshitsugu SAWAI: The Providence of God the Parent – Toward the Understanding of Tenrikyo Cosmology Taketo HASHIMOTO: Revelation and Oyasama Matthew EYNON: Autumn Festival Floats of the Himeji Region as Vessels of Tradition Toyoaki UEHARA: The Shinto Myth – Meaning, Symbolism, and Individuation –
20	November 1986	Hideo NAKAJIMA: The Formation and Trend of a Sense of “Restoration” – Between the Two Tenrikyo Doctrine: Old and New – Shigeru SERIZAWA: Three Metaphorical Situations that Explain Salvation Yuichi SAWAI: The Origin of Tenrikyo – With Reference to the Osashizu, the Divine Directions – Teruaki IIDA: A Study on “God the Parent” Masao ISHIZAKI: The Idea of ‘Four-Frontedness’ and Its Embodiment Susumu MORI: A Study of Three Pilgrimages in Japan Toyoaki UEHARA: The Shinto Myth – Meaning, Symbolism, and Individuation –
21	December 1987	Hideo NAKAJIMA: A Theological Understanding of "Virtue" in Tenrikyo Faith Masaaki HAYASAKA: Tenrikyo under the Structure of National Shintoism – Double faced Aspects in the Development of Tenrikyo during the Lifetime of the Foundress – Shigeru SERIZAWA: The Soul and the Parental Heart Interview: The Overseas Mission of Tenrikyo in Its Early Stage Hitoshi MIYAKE: Female Prohibition at Mt. Sanjo, the Omine Mts. Matthew EYNON: Form and Function in the Japanese Mikoshi and the Chinese Chiaozu
22	December 1988	Akio INOUE: “Signs Coincided” and the Way of “Divine Model” Shigeru MATSUMOTO: An Approach to “The Truth of Creation” (Moto-no-ri) Masakazu TSUJII: Machinery and Cosmology Interview: The Overseas Mission of Tenrikyo in Its Early Stage (2) Hideo KANDA: Religious Thought of Nyoraikyo Koji SATO: "Chao-sheng" – The Religious Ritual to Save Departed Souls in Taiwan –
23	March 1995	Teruo NISHIYAMA: Oyasama's View of Future Mikio YASUI: The Structure of Salvation – In Connection with Shuji's Leg Trouble Susumu MORI: The Influence of Historical Trends in Religious Studies: Methodological Change in the Studies of the Tenrikyo Religion by Christian Missionaries and Western Scholars of Religion Carl BECKER: Mechanism and Features of Religious Healing Akpenpuun DZURGBA: Social Implications of Religious Evil Signs: A Case Study of the Tiv People
24	March 1996	Shigeru MATSUMOTO: On the Truth of Innen Shiro IKEDA: Returning, Rebirth, Departure: The Phenomenology of Returning to Ojiba Yukie IHASHI: The Doctrinal Expression: Regarding the Word "Parent"/"parent" in the Osashizu Masaru SOYAMA: Do not think where the paradise or the hell is. It is all in our mind. Charles R. BOXER: Some Reflections on Macao, Nagasaki, and the Maritime Silk Trade in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries James S. CUMMINS: Some Meiji-period Students in Victorian England Kazuo MATSUMURA: Birds as Symbols of the Realm of the Sacred in Japanese Myth
25	March 1997	Fusato IHASHI: Harmony and Coexistence: The Viewpoint of Living in the World of God Gen MIYATA: Creation and Salvation: A Study on the Tenrikyo View of Salvation Taketo HASHIMOTO: Thoughts on "Only by Inspiring Everyone" A Part of the Tenrikyo View of Humanity Susumu SHIMAZONO: On Contemporary Salvation Religion Hirochika NAKAMAKI: Two Triadic Theories of Japanese Religions in Reference to Their Thought and Structure Matthew EYNON: Japanese Modern Religious Manga: An Ancient Tradition in New Clothing
26	February 1998	Hideo NAKAJIMA: Denaoshi: A View That Goes beyond Life and Death – Tenrikyo Concept of Life and Death – Satoshi SHIONOYA: Missionary Work and Churches: A Tentative Study Yoshinori SAWAI: The Ethics of Faith Yoshitsugu SAWAI: The Meaning of "To Be Alive": From the Perspective of Tenrikyo Anthropology Hitoshi MIYAKE: The Idea of Nature in Japanese Folk Religion
27	March 1999	Yoshitsugu SAWAI: The Appellations of God the Parent: An Analysis of “God,” “Tsukihi,” and “Parent” Yoshihiro ARAKAWA: A Study of the “Truth of Origin” and the Universe Koichi CHAMOTO: On Missionary Work – A Study Based on Issues Relating to Entering the Faith Masakazu TSUJII: Tenrikyo’s Missionary Activities in Modern Society – A Study Based on Church Statistics Shigeru SERIZAWA: To Participate in Salvation: Tenrikyo Scriptures and Missionary Work Yoshio YASUMARU: Popular Religions and the Experience of Modernity Irit AVERBUCH: Dancing the Doctrine: Esoteric Buddhism in a Yamabushi Kagura Performance Ikuo HIGASHIBABA: Making Sense of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Japan: “Kirishitan” and Christian Symbols
28	March 2000	Kazuta KURAUCHI: Nakayama Miki and Human Science – The Quest for the Doroumi Koki Atsuhiko YOSHIDA: The Beginning of the Cult of Mother Earth in Europe and in Japan
29	March 2001	Teruaki IIDA: The Family Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Parents and Children Midori HORIUCHI: Husband and Wife – The Root of the “Joyous Life”– Masakazu TSUJII: A Perspective on the Use of “Brothers and Sisters” in the Osashizu: All Humankind as Brothers and Sisters, and Spiritual Brothers and Sisters Takahiko HAYASHI: Reconceptualizing the New: Anesaki Masharu’s Writings on Religion and New Religion Kazuta KURAUCHI: Nakayama Miki and Human Science – The Quest for the Doroumi Koki (Continues from the preceding number) –
30	March 2002	Takekazu MATSUTANI: The Truth of Origin and World Salvation Saburo MORISHITA: A Reflection on the Body Midori HORIUCHI: The "Foundation of the Path" and Woman- Women appearing in "Senjin no omokage" in the Michinodai- Kazuhiro HATAKAMA: Society and Tenrikyo during the Meiji Period
31	March 2003	Masakazu TSUJII: The Development of Wisdom and Script: Environmental Issues and Scientific Technology Yoshinori SAWAI: Mutually Respecting and Aiding One Another: Environmental Problems and Religion Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Tsutsushimi is the Virtue, Tsutsushimi is the Broad Path: Environmental Problems and Ethics Midori HORIUCHI: No Distinction Between Female and Male Pines: Environmental Issues and Women Takanori SATO: From a Knot, Buds Will Sprout: Environmental Issues and Ecosystem Panel Discussion: Environmental Issues and Tenrikyo Hirochika NAKAMAKI: Company Funeral of the Corporate Founder: Panasonic and Sony Matthew EYNON: Nioi-gake from a Cultural Perspective: Its Relation to Cross-cultural Missionary Work
32	March 2004	Akio INOUE: A Thought on the "Meaning" of the World of "meaning" - Tenrikyo Semantics Hideo NAKAJIMA: "This Universe Is the Body of God: Ponder This in All Matters." Shigeru SERIZAWA: "Your Lack of Understanding Is the Regret of God" Charles H. LONG: Theory and Method for Religious Studies: A New Arche for the Study of Religion William A. GRAHAM: Reflections on Comparative Study in Religion: "Scripture" as a Case in Point Masako KETA: Modern Society and Philosophy of Religion Susumu SHIMAZONO: Contemporary Religion and Religious Studies: The Concept of "Religion" in Post Axial Civilization Yoshitsugu SAWAI: New Developments of the Study of Religion
33	March 2005	Tenrikyo Semantics Koji SATO: Michi: Path Yomei MORI: Yoki: Joy Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Fushigi: Miracle Midori HORIUCHI: Yamai: Illness Akira KANEKO: Hataraki: Workings Takanori SATO: Nioi: Aroma Masahiko OKADA: Hokori: Dust Shigeru NOGUCHI: Isami: Spiritedness Kazuhiro HATAKAMA: Sekai: World Yoshinori SAWAI: Kokoro: Mind Gen MIYATA: Innen: Causality Akio INOUE: “Human Faces” and The “Truth of Origin”
34	March 2006	The XIXth International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions in Tokyo (March 2005) Midori HORIUCHI: The Mikagura-uta and Tenrikyo Shugo YAMANAKA: Acceptance and Development of Faith: Children Growing up in Tenrikyo Churches Saburo MORISHITA: The Gray Areas of Guidance: Utterances as a Form of "Violence" in Japanese New Religious Movements Hideo KANDA: The Birth of New Religions in Japan in the 19th Century and Traditional Cosmology Akira KANEKO: Inter-religious Cooperation and Social Contribution Activities by the Federation of New Religious Organizations of Japan (Shinshuren) Masayoshi KOBAYASHI: Forming and Evoking Bodily Memories through Oration Concerning the Learning and Performing the Process of "Yamabushi-kagura" Kazuhiro HATAKAMA: Shinto and the Shirakawa House During the Late Tokugawa Period Ikuo HIGASHIBABA: Christian Prayer in Tokugawa Japan Kenzaburo MATSUDA: On Cogitatio and Zeitlichkeit in Augustine and Heidegger Ikuo HIGASHIBABA: Reductionism in the Study of Religion: A Reflection on its Debates in North America Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Constructing a New Bio-ethics from the Perspective of Toshihiko Izutsu's "Oriental Philosophy” Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Texts and Their Creative Interpretations: Reflections on the Vedanta Philosophy as the Hermeneutics of Upanisads Katsumi SHIMADA: "Religio" According to Nicolaus Cusanus - Apologetic Strategies in De pace fidei- Masahiko OKADA: Report on 1. Buddha Dharma versus Buddhism: A Comparison between the "Vitalization Theory" of Inoue Enryo and the "Unification Theory" of…
35	March 2007	The Fifteenth Tenri Taiwan Academic Conference, Taipei, 2005 Yoshiaki MIHAMA: Exchanges between Tenri and Taiwan Koji SATO: The Second Shinbashira Shozen Nakayama and Taiwan Mission Chia-Fang KAO: A Century of Tenrikyo Mission in Taiwan: Its Reality and Future Prospect Article Kazuhiro HATAKAMA: Images of Religion in Modern Japan: "Religion" as Recorded by Takase Michitsune and His Views
36	March 2008	Tenrikyo Cosmology and the Modern Age (Open Lectures on Tenrikyo Teachings, 2006) Akio INOUE: The Truth of Origin and the Present Age Gen MIYATA: Tasuke Salvation Masahiko OKADA: Kagura-zutome Ritual: the Kagura Service Shigeru NOGUCHI: Oya: God Yomei MORI: Kokoro Hitotsu Wagari Mind: The Mind Alone is the Truth of Oneself Takanori SATO: Kashimono Karimono The Body: A Thing Lent, A Thing Borrowed Midori HORIUCHI: Denaoshi Death: Passing Away for Rebirth Kazuhiro HATAKAMA: Hinokishin: Work Yoshinori SAWAI: Jijo no Motsure Worries: Entangled in Troubles Harumichi FUKAGAWA: Mijo no Sawari Illness: Physical Disorder Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Futatsu Hitotsu Logic: Oneness in Two Koji SATO: Kono Yo wa Kami no Karada The World: This Universe is the Body of God
37	March 2009	Koji SATO: The Everliving Oyasama Motokiyo FUKAYA: Meaning, Ways, and Purpose of "Becoming Spirited" Saburo MORISHITA: A Reflection on the Monthly Service Sermon: Some Preliminary Considerations Sadamichi ASHINA: Contemporary Christian Thought in Ecological Perspective
38	March 2010	Yoshitsugu SAWAI: What Is the Perspective of Tenrikyo Theology? Katsumi SHIMADA: Tenrikyo Theology as an Apologetics: In Light of Yoshinori Moroi's Viewpoint Yoshihiro ARAKAWA: A Study on the Teaching: "This Universe Is the Body of God" Yoshinori SAWAI: Oyasama's Attitude toward Teaching and Guiding Shugo YAMANAKA: The Truth of the Everliving Oyasama and the Osashizu, The Divine Directions Gen MIYATA: A Reflection on the Truth of "A Thing Lent, A Thing Borrowed" Masato KATO: A Critique on the Study of Asian American Religion: In Reference to the Case of Japanese American Tenrikyo Followers in the San Francisco Bay Area
39	October 2010	Masahiko OKADA: New Historical Science and Studies of Tenrikyo's History: A Study of Tenrikyo Dendosha ni Kansuru Chosa Teruaki IIDA: On the Themes and Tasks of Tenrikyo Theology: Learning from a Predecessor Susumu MORI: "The Path of Single-Hearted Salvation" and "Spiritual Growth": From a "Trouble to a "Knot" Harumichi FUKAGAWA: War and Peace as Seen in the Ofudesaki and the Mikagura-uta Tenri International Workshop 2010 (March 26) "Life, Death, and Dying in Intercultural Perspective" Midori HORIUCHI: Death from a Tenrikyo Perspective Miran BOZOVIC: Death in Early Modern European Thought Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Meanings of Life and Death in Asian Religious Traditions: A Semantic Perspective of Religion Maja MILCNSKI: Death as a Soteriological Problem: Faith, Math and Reason
40	January 2012	Yuichi SAWAI: The Place and Content of “the Truth of the Teachings” in The Doctrine of Tenrikyo Mikio YASUI: A Study on the Mind of Saving Others: An Outline of the Frame of Such a Mind Yukie IHASHI: A Divine Direction Phrase “No Distinction Between Men and Women” and Its Content Ikuo HIGASHIBABA: The Divine Word and the Divine Model: Beyond Otherness Kensaburo MATSUDA: On the Truth of “A Thing Lent, A Thing Borrowed”–Tracing Prior Research Ichiro SODA: Regions with High Density of Tenrikyo Churches Midori HORIUCHI: Reexamination of the Family from a Standpoint of Tenrikyo Teachings Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Religious Perspectives of Nature in East Asian Cultures
41	January 2013	Keiichiro MOROI: The Teachings Penetrated by the Truth (ri) Hideo NAKAJIMA: Exploration of the Study of Tenrikyo Doctrine: An Interview with Professor Hideo Nakajima Yukihiro DOI: “Restoration” Reexamined: Through Changes in the Musical Instruments Mikio YASUI: Toward a New Type of Civilization Barbara AMBROS: Nakayama Miki’s Views of Women and Their Bodies in the Context of Nineteenth Century Japanese Religions Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Religious Diversity and Contemporary Societies: Toward New Perspectives in Religious Studies
42	January 2014	Public Theological Symposium Commemorating Professor Yoshinori Moroi’s 50th Memorial Anniversary Yoshitsugu SAWAI: The Overview and Significance of the Symposium Eisuke WAKAMATSU: Reading Tenrikyo Kyogigaku Shiron by Yoshinori Moroi Keiichiro MOROI: Recollections of My Father Teruaki IIDA: Prof. Yoshinori Moroi’s Academic Posture Yoshitsugu SAWAI: Rev. Yoshinori Moroi’s Study of Tenrikyo Teachings and Its Development Other Yoshihiro ARAKAWA: Towards the Understanding of the Truth of Origin Katsumi SHIMADA: The Emergence and Development of Tenrikyo Theology: On the Significance of Sciences of Religion as Mediums Sakuma SEMBA: American Prophet: Martin Luther King, Jr. Ikuo HIGASHIBABA: Studies of the Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan
43	March 2015	Kōji SATŌ: Letting "Buds Sprout" from "Knots" Yoshinori SAWAI: Oyasama and Missionary Work Masahiko ENDŌ: The Necessity and Tasks of "Theology" in Tenrikyo Sayo SUGANO: The Meaning of "Single-hearted Talk" Hirochika NAKAMAKI: Calendar and Religion Susumu MORI: Gerardus Van Der Leeuw: His Life and Scholarship
44	March 2016	Mikio YASUI: Various Facets of Salvation Susumu MORI: “Returning to the Jiba” and “Salvation” Ikuo HIGASHIBABA: Salvation through Hinokishin Emi MASE-HASEGAWA: The Mindset of the Nagasaki Crypto-Christians Retelling Biblical Narratives as Theological Performance Koji FUKAYA: Religiosity and Methodology in Conversion Studies
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46	March 2018	Yū WATANABE: The Joy of the Beginning: A Study on the "Eight Verses of the Yorozuyo" Jirō SAWAI: The Original Day of the Founding of the Teaching: A Study of "Zonmei no Oyasama," A Sermon by Shirobei Umetani Saburō YAGI: Thinking About Disabilities: Issues Following Japan's Ratification of the CRPD Yoshitsugu SAWAI: The Structure of Reality in Oriental Religious Thought: Human Relations with the Transcendent Kōji SATŌ: "An Old Man Who Picked Mulberry Leaves:" Is It True That Whoever Dances This Piece Will Die Soon?