Tenrikyo In Brazil From The Perspective Of Globalization (Yamada, REVER, 2010)

Masanobu Yamada's peer-reviewed article on Tenrikyo's development in Brazil, published in REVER, the religious studies journal of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo. Reliable for the Kita Grand Church's 1927 founding of Noroeste Church, Brazil's first Tenrikyo congregation; the Nankai Grand Church's 1929 mission sending ten families to settle and propagate the faith; the tie between Tenrikyo's overseas mission and Japanese immigration to Brazil, itself beginning with the ship Kasato Maru's 1908 arrival; and the growth to five churches across inland Brazil's Japanese immigrant communities by 1936, the foundress Nakayama Miki's fiftieth memorial anniversary year.