Carisma e poder no discurso religioso: um estudo do legado de Masaharu Taniguchi A Seicho-No-Ie no Brasil

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Ano de defesa: 2006
Autor(a) principal: Diniz, Ediléia Mota lattes
Orientador(a): Campos, Leonildo Silveira lattes
Banca de defesa: Albuquerque, Leila Marrach Basto de lattes, Souza, Sandra Duarte de lattes
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso embargado
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: PÓS GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIAS DA RELIGIÃO
Departamento: 1. Ciências Sociais e Religião 2. Literatura e Religião no Mundo Bíblico 3. Práxis Religiosa e Socie
País: BR
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Link de acesso: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/483
Resumo: Japanese religions in Brazil, including Seicho-No-Ie, was directly linked to Japanese immigration, which began in 1908. These immigrants brought with them cosmologies and religious practices that were part of a rich and ancient cultural legacy. A variety of New Religious Movements had begun to appear in Japan primarily during the modernizing "Meiji Restoration" (1868-1912), including Oomoto, Tenrikyô, Soka Gakkai, the Messianic Church, and Seicho-No-Ie. In 1930, Masaharu Taniguchi (1893-1985) founded Seicho-No-Ie, a philosophical-religious movement whose name means "home of infinite progressing". Its doctrine is based in a series of revelations that Taniguchi claimed to have received from a Shinto divinity; it draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions, later mixed with Christian concepts. The propagation of Taniguchi s teachings in a magazine led to Seicho-No-Ie s expansion, first in Japan and later in other parts of the world. Taniguchi was a prophetic and charismatic leader. He installed a peculiar system of symbolic domination that is amenable to analysis using the theories of Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu. The institutionalization process took Taniguchi s family as idealized model and articulated a hybrid system of patriarchal, charismatic and bureaucratic domination, establishing an androcentric order initially inspired on the Japanese imperial tradition in which feminine roles are subordinate. This structure privileged the succession to leadership of Master Taniguchi s son-in-law, Seicho Arachi (who adopted his father-in-law s surname) and, years later, of the eldest grandson, Masanobu Taniguchi (first-born of Seicho and his wife, Emiko). In the early 1930s, Japanese immigrants to Brazil discovered Seicho-No-Ie, due in large part to reading a magazine edited in Japan by Taniguchi. However, the key factor in establishing Seicho-No-Ie in Brazil was the missionary work of two Japanese immigrants, brothers Daijiro and Miyoshi Matsuda. The Brazilian organization was officially recognized as a branch office of the Japanese headquarters on May 30, 1951. The initial growth of Seicho-No-Ie in Brazil was bounded by the ethnic and cultural limits of the Japanese community. It began to attract native-born Brazilians in the 1960s, as it sought to acculturate its doctrinal activities. This study describes Seicho-No-Ie s doctrinal and administrative structure in Brazil, presenting them as a reproduction of International Headquarters in Japan. It analyzes the religious discourse found in books and magazines, and, currently, in television programs. It argues that these media, along with the teachings of a select body of lecturers, were the primary means of reproducing Masaharu Taniguchi s legacy to his Japanese, Brazilian, and other followers.