What attracts people to new types of religion?
Inoue, who has also conducted surveys on religious beliefs among young people, found that there is an increasing interest in supernatural phenomena and the occult, rather than in established religions, among Japanese university students. In the results of a survey he conducted in 1999, Inoue reported that 49 percent of respondents said they believed in telepathy and 63.4 percent believed in near-death experiences. The percentage of people who said they believed in reincarnation and past lives was 56.2 percent, while 50.9 percent believed in some form of afterlife. However, 65.8 percent of respondents also answered that they considered religion to be partly dangerous, showing that a general suspicion of religion exists in peoples’ minds. In his book “Contemporary Japanese Religion” Inoue wrote that “the Japanese people are drifting away from organized religions, but this does not necessarily mean that they have lost interest in religion in general. “Furthermore, interest in things like
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