Tenrikyo

Tenrikyo holds that selfish thoughts cast a shadow over our lives, and that illness results from this self-centeredness; by correcting mistaken, self-centered use of their minds, people can receive the blessings of good health.

Several miles away, in a modern American city, is a church of Tenrikyo, the “Religion of Heavenly Wisdom,” one of the so-called new religions of modern Japan. The arrangement of its altar is similar to that of Shinto, […] But whereas Shinto worships many deities, Tenrikyo has but one, the Creator of the world, Oyagami “God the Parent.”

Tenrikyo has a long history of giving birth to other independent movements, some of which have in turn issued in their own set of offshoots. In the case of Tenrikyo, both structural and doctrinal elements have contributed to the development of derivative movements.

Ever since Tenrikyo began spreading its faith in the mid-nineteenth century, it had been under constant persecution from the government.