Dance as Aggressiveness
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis January 16, 2019 Tina Hamrin
Kitamura Sayo (1900-1967), founder of Tenho-kötai-jingii-kyö, proclaimed in July 1945 that the world was ending and that she was chosen by the deity Tensho Kotai Jingu as the world's savior. Followers gathered, and the group became a legally incorporated religious organization in January 1947. She taught that regret, desire, hatred, and love cause misfortune, urging liberation through prayer until the self is forgotten. Members perform a ritual dance and enter ecstatic states at meetings, giving the movement its name, the Dancing Religion.