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The Cult Dossier · No. 138 · Syncretic / Other Nrm
Tenrikyo
Religion of Divine Wisdom
1838 – present · Tenri, Nara Prefecture, Japan; worldwide
XIII. FILLING THE GAPS — ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Fully religious — Japanese new religion
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1838 Miki's initial possession at age 40.
- 1838–80s Gives away the family's land and property; the household is reduced to destitution.
- 1860s–80s ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED REPEATEDLY by the authorities — the movement’s own accounts say seventeen or eighteen times — the last of them when she was in her late eighties.
- 26 JANUARY 1887 Dies aged 88; adherents hold that she remains alive at the Jiba.
- 1908 Granted official recognition under State Shinto, at the cost of doctrinal compromises later reversed.
- Present Roughly 1.2–2 million adherents; Tenri City is built around the headquarters.
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