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font-size: 8pt;\">* Associate Professor &amp; Chair, World Religions and Culture, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Bangladesh. E-mail: mja77@du.ac.bd<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 8pt;\">** Japanese Language Instructor, Daffodil Japan It, E-mail: samadrony31@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">New religions have been especially appealing to people in a rapidly changing <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">society. Conservative and traditional moral values are often articulated in such a changing <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">society. In a changing Japanese society, conservative and traditional moral values are <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">often articulated; modes of hopes, understanding and meaning are provided; meaningful <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">teaching and promises of salvation for people are offered. It should be mentioned that the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">various Japanese traditional ways of religious practices, such as magical healing, spirit <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">possessions, and the gaining of worldly benefits, are the standard features of almost all of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">the New Religious Movements in Japan. This article contributes to the discussion on the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">background of New Religious Movements, the meaning of NMRs, their standard features, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">and persistent themes from a Japanese perspective. Thus, this paper proceeds by <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">presenting some of the different socio-historical contexts based on which new religious <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">movements emerged. It is an attempt of the current paper that can help us explain and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">evaluate the socio-historical facts of the rise of New Religious Movements in Japan. In <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">addition, the current paper presents how New Religious Movements demonstrate their <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">magnetic attraction for the ordinary people in Japan and create a new panorama providing <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">the opportunity of being treated in a particular way. Finally, as for implication, this paper <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">gives importance to some crucial issues that focus on further study of religion in Japan <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">from different approaches in future that cannot be avoided the significant problems of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">democratisation, secularisation, and atheism in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong> New Religious Movements . Persistent Themes . New Panorama . <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Democratisation . Secularisation . Organisational development . 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