Africa is now home to four major religious groups: Christianity, Islam, African Traditional Religions, and religions of Asian origin (largely practiced by the political elite, mainly
Mahikari, Hinduism, and Buddhism).
Sometime in midlife, I became fascinated by Eastern spiritual teachings and was attracted very seriously to
Mahikari, a Japanesebased spiritual practice that, interestingly and rather admirably, attracts whole families, instead of tearing them apart as in other cases.
George Houston, director of the Sukyo
Mahikari Center, discussed the Center's recent green construction and the unexpected pitfalls properly owners should know before embarking on a green project.
The Church of Scientology, the Baha'i, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the
Mahikari Religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and the Unification Church are registered.
(14.) Traces of this remnant of the past do remain today and can be identified in the activities of millenarian religious societies such as the exorcist sect, Sukyo
Mahikari (see Davis 1980).
In 1996 a parliamentary commission studying "cults" publicly released a report that identified 173 groups as "cults," including the Raelians, the Association of the Triumphant Vajra, the Order of the Solar Temple, Sukyo
Mahikari, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Theological Institute of Nimes (an evangelical Christian Bible college), and the Church of Scientology.
In addition, Confucian groups reported 26,700 members; Church of Scientology twenty thousand; Baha'i Faith 16 thousand; Hsuan Men Tsung 5 thousand; Zhonghua Sheng Chiao (Chinese Holy Religion) 3,200; Maitreya Emperor Religion 3 thousand; Ta I Chiao (Great Changes Religion) 1 thousand;
Mahikari Religion 1 thousand; and Huang Chung (Yellow Middle) 1 thousand.
In 1996, a parliamentary commission studying so-called cults publicly released a report that identified 173 groups as "cults," including the Raelians, the Association of the Triumphant Vajra, the Order of the Solar Temple, Sukyo
Mahikari, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Theological Institute of Nimes (an evangelical Christian Bible college), and the Church of Scientology.
In addition, the Church of Scientology reported 20,000 members; the Baha'i Faith 16,000; Confucians 13,000; World Red Swastika Society 5; Zhonghua Sheng Chiao (Chinese Holy Religion) 3,200; Maitreya Emperor Religion 3,000; Ta I Chiao (Great Changes Religion) 1,000;
Mahikari Religion 1,000; and Huang Chung (Yellow Middle) 1,000.