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What Have Religious Groups Done After 3.11? Part 1 (McLaughlin, Religion Compass, 2013)

Religion Compass

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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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1
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.
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Used for the campaign's overall four month duration, the roughly 18,600 total corps members, and the two fundraising totals.
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Author
Levi McLaughlin
Publisher
Religion Compass
Publication Year
2013
URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12057
Source Type
peer-reviewed article
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Japan, Countries

This source names Japan directly: "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..."

Tenrikyo, Religions

This source names Tenrikyo directly: "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..."

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