Happy Science
Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). is a new religious movement in Japan. Ryuho Okawa started the religion on October 6th, 1986. On February 2nd, 2008, the group changed its official English name. It had been called Kofuku-no-Kagaku, which is a version of the Japanese name in Latin alphabet. The group now calls itself "Happy Science" in English.
Happy Science Media
Ryuho Okawa, 15 February 2015
Tokyo Shoshinkan in Sengakuji
Happy Science
Happy Science, Pacific Highway, Lane Cove, Sydney
Happy Science, Pacific Highway, North Lane Cove, Sydney
This is the Sohonzan (cathedral) Shoshinkan of Happy Science in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.
Ceiling of Happy Science (Kofuku no Kagaku) Chiba Temple Japan.
Happy Science University
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Related pages
- The Happiness Realization Party is the religion's political party. Although it fields many candidates in almost every Japanese nationwide election, as of 2018 it has no seats in the Japanese Diet.
Further reading
- Clarke, Peter B. (ed.) (1999), 'Kofuku-no-Kagaku: The Institute for Research in Human Happiness' in A Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements: With Annotations, Surrey, UK, Japan Library (Curzon), ISBN 1-873410-80-8, pp. 149–67
- Yamashita, Akiko (1998), 'The "Eschatology" of Japanese new and new new religions: from Tenrikyo to Kofuku-no-Kagaku' in Japanese Religions, Vol. 23, January 1998, NCC, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 125–42
- The Transformation of a Recent Japanese New Religion: Okawa Ryuho and Kofuku no kagaku, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 22 p 343-380
