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Religious consciousness is a person's cognitive, emotional and evaluative posture toward religion. The present paper studies three questions: how one's posture in regard to religion changes or remains stable in the process of social change; assuming that components of religious consciousness are identifiable, which traits tend to change and which do not, and why; and what theoretical framework is most useful in understanding the dynamics of this stability and change. Change in religious consciousness is promoted by a certain meaningful change in the environment. In the present paper, we shall take up the acceptance of a new religion as a type of environmental change in approaching the research problems proposed above. The new religion selected for this study is called Mybchikai Kybdan, a group which separated from Reiyiikai Kybdan in 1950. Mybchikai Kybdan is a religious sect whose basic teaching is the practice of ancestor veneration through recitation of the Lotus Sutra. The head figure of the religion is a female spiritist. Its roughly 200,000 members are concentrated in the metropolitan Tokyo area and in Yamagata Prefecture. It is considered a medium-sized religious sect. In order to examine changes in religious consciousness as a result of acceptance of Mybchikai beliefs, we selected a hot spring town called Yunohama in Yamagata Prefecture, which has a considerable number of Mybchikai

Acceptance of a new religion and subsequent changes in religious consciousness