Sekai Shindokyo
{{Short description|Japanese new religion based in Toyokawa}}
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| headquarters = Suwa, Toyokawa, Aichi
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| founder = 会田 ヒデ (Aida Hide)
| founded_date = 1944
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{{nihongo|Sekai Shindokyo|世界心道教|Sekai Shindōkyō}} is a Japanese new religion derived from Tenrikyo. It was founded by {{nihongo|Hide Aida|会田 ヒデ|Aida Hide}} (1898–1973).{{cite web |url= https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/id=9791 |title= Sekai Shindōkyō |publisher= Kokugakuin University Digital Museum}} It is headquartered at 101 Suwa 2-chōme, Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan.{{cite web |url=http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2397#page=20 |title=Statistics on Religious Organizations in Japan，1947-1972 (3) |publisher=Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Nanzan University |date=December 1975 |accessdate=2013-03-08}}
History
Aida, a woman who had converted to Tenrikyo to 1923 and then to Honmichi in 1925, had a divine experience when on March 13, 1938, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (月読之命) and Kuni-Sazuchi-no-Mikoto (国狭土之命) possessed Aida Hide's body. On December 23, 1942, 10 more deities descended into Aida Hide's body. Sekai Shindokyo was subsequently founded in 1944.{{cite web|url=http://www.shinshuren.or.jp/orgdetail.php?id=17|title=世界心道教|website=新宗連|access-date=2025-01-21}}
In 1946, Aida Hide moved the religion's headquarters to Toyokawa. On July 6, 1948, Sekai Shindokyo was officially incorporated under the Japan's post-war Religious Corporations Law. The main temple, founder's hall, and office were completed in 1967. Aida Hide died on May 24, 1973.{{cite web|title=沿革|website=sekaishindokyo.or.jp|date=2005-09-20|url=http://www.sekaishindokyo.or.jp/page001.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205041445/http://www.sekaishindokyo.or.jp/page001.html|archive-date=2007-02-05|url-status=dead|access-date=2025-06-04}}
Beliefs and practices
In the religion, the full name of God is {{nihongo|"Heaven-Earth Moon-Sun Parent Water-Fire-Wind Great God [Kami-sama]"|天地月日御親水火風之大神様|Tenchi Tsukihi Mioya Sui-Hi-Fū no Ōkamisama}}.
Gagaku music is played during ritual ceremonies.{{cite web|title=鼓笛隊 / 雅楽|website=sekaishindokyo.or.jp|date=2005-09-09|url=http://www.sekaishindokyo.or.jp/page005.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205041822/http://www.sekaishindokyo.or.jp/page005.html|archive-date=2007-02-05|url-status=dead|access-date=2025-06-04}}
Gallery
File:Sekai Shindokyo gate.jpg|Entrance to the Sekai Shindokyo headquarters in Toyokawa
File:Sekai Shindokyo (Soreiden 2).jpg|View of the Soreiden (祖霊殿), a pagoda dedicated to the religion's founder
File:Sekai Shindokyo Soreiden pagoda.jpg|The grounds of the Sekai Shindokyo headquarters in Toyokawa
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Sekai Shindokyo}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206040836/http://www.sekaishindokyo.or.jp/ 2007 archived version of Sekai Shindōkyō's official website]
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Category:Religious organizations established in 1948
Category:Japanese new religions
Category:1948 establishments in Japan
Category:Religions derived from Tenrikyo