Levi McLaughlin's peer reviewed survey, published in the academic journal Religion Compass, volume 7 issue 8, pages 294 to 308, of religious mobilization after the Great East Japan Earthquake, independently corroborating that Tenrikyo's Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps campaign, running for more than four months, involved roughly 18,600 corps members and several thousand ordinary followers, and that its fundraising drive between 12 March and 31 December 2011 raised 450 million yen for the three affected prefectural governments and a further 285 million yen for the corps and for damaged Tenrikyo branch churches.
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A named scholar's peer reviewed academic survey of religious disaster response, tier 1, independently corroborating and extending the primary institutional figures given by Tenrikyo Online above with the campaign's full multi month totals. NotesUsed for the campaign's overall four month duration, the roughly 18,600 total corps members, and the two fundraising totals.
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AuthorLevi McLaughlin
PublisherReligion Compass
Publication Year2013
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12057
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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