Kyoto is a miniature of Japan; through centuries of experience and persistence, it has maintained the symbols of the country’s civil and cultural identity. The city has demonstrated a collection of Japan’s noble identity and characteristics through its material and spiritual heritage. Kyoto’s rich history and its position have gathered a collection of religion-based works, artistic innovations,...

This paper explores the Naha Confucius Temple case, resolved by Supreme Court in February 2021, light of postwar decisions on Articles 20 and 89 Japanese constitution. Religion is a contested category legislation, appearing both constitution laws regulating freedoms restrictions legally registered religious organizations. While organization behind was as general corporate juridical person, majo...

The role of religion in American politics and civil society has drawn significant scholarly focus, but most of the recent attention has fallen on the religious right’s political influence and, more recently, on new initiatives to broaden the channeling of social service funding through faithbased organizations. These are important issues, but they exclude another historically important face of ...

asha, meaning order and honesty as apposed to anarchy and hypocrisy is the most significant principle of the anciant persian religion . there are some events and tales they are coloured by the asha principle . the manifestation of asha in such cases is the result of a certain religious experience known as the exegetic experience . the exegetic experience is in fact a religious interpretation an...

When revolutions for independence broke out, religious life in the Spanish American world was ruled by the Indian patronage regime [patronato], which gave the monarch tight control over ecclesiastical institutions. Patronage included, among many other prerogatives, presenting candidates to the pope, appointing parish priests and doctrine teachers, the right to allow or deny the dissemination of...

When revolutions for independence broke out, religious life in the Spanish American world was ruled by the Indian patronage regime [patronato], which gave the monarch tight control over ecclesiastical institutions. Patronage included, among many other prerogatives, presenting candidates to the pope, appointing parish priests and doctrine teachers, the right to allow or deny the dissemination of...

Largely because of an attempt at conciseness, but also be cause of the compactness of KeyKOS and the mutual re liance of the abstractions from which it is developed, certain words and phrases appear, of necessity, earlier in this publi cation than the principle discussions explaining them. The information in this publication is ordered with the intent that a reader will need to assume as lit...