抄録
Maruyama-kyo was one of the biggest new religious groups which sprang up in Japan around 1880.
The writer intends to explain how it grew strong in so short a time and what process it passed through in its growth and decline.
I. The rapid development of the religion can be attributed to the facts: (1) There occurred a sudden revolutionary change in social economy; (2) and then the cultures of the districts, where Mt. Fuji is in sight, were intermingled with each other, and with it Maruyama-kyo made a wide-spread though it was limited to those areas.
II. The community structures of those villages, where this religion took root, can be classified into three types in accordance with each social geographic situation of city-environs, plains and mountainous regions.
III. As soon as peace came to society and social economy recovered its normal state, Maruyama-kyo ceased developing and began to be naturalized as was the case with the old religion-Buddhism. It was found that there were two types in its naturalizing process according to the courses along which Maruyama-kyo developed.
