著者

当麻 成志

出版者

公益社団法人 日本地理学会

雑誌

地理学評論 (ISSN:00167444)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.31, no.8, pp.477-486, 1958

被引用文献数

1

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Maruyama-kyo was one of the biggest new religious groups which sprang up in Japan around 1880.<br> The writer intends to explain how it grew strong in so short a time and what process it passed through in its growth and decline.<br> I. The rapid development of the religion can be attributed to the facts: (1) There occurred a sudden revolutionary change in social economy; (2) and then the cultures of the districts, where Mt. Fuji is in sight, were intermingled with each other, and with it Maruyama-kyo made a wide-spread though it was limited to those areas.<br> II. The community structures of those villages, where this religion took root, can be classified into three types in accordance with each social geographic situation of city-environs, plains and mountainous regions.<br> III. As soon as peace came to society and social economy recovered its normal state, Maruyama-kyo ceased developing and began to be naturalized as was the case with the old religion-Buddhism. It was found that there were two types in its naturalizing process according to the courses along which Maruyama-kyo developed.