Title Information
Title
The Power of Writing in Deguchi Nao's Ofudesaki
Abstract
In 1892 Deguchi Nao, an impoverished Japanese widow who had suffered for decades in an arranged marriage with an alcoholic husband, began hearing voices and channeling spirits. She was told that the world was about to be destroyed for its disobedience to the divine beings called kami, that she had been chosen to be the medium of a kami named Ushitora no Konjin, that Konjin would try to save as many people as he could from the cataclysm and usher in a golden age, and that her little village of Ayabe would become the center of the world. (originally published in Female Leaders in New Religious Movements, Palgrave, 2017)
Name
Name Part
Morrow, Avery
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
Author
Origin Information
Date Created
2017-10-06
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/140486")
Topic
Deguchi, Nao, 1836-1918
Subject (Local)
Topic
Women and religion
Subject (Local)
Topic
religious studies
Type of Resource
text
Physical Description
Extent
23 p.
digitalOrigin
born digital
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/rs6c-yy52