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Imaoka, Shin’ichirō. What Is Jiyū Shūkyō. Translated by Andrew James Brown, 1963, https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTgvwLgEa8a258r6GYosYiGzEHL0i-GP5JkDRDylt9cvd86eQtzE6G5Kco8f1AuuhrgLgbydOBYX356/pub#h.joql4mvr4i5a.

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Per Imaoka, what three religious movements are the most notable examples of jiyū shūkyō? :: Unitarianism, Universalism, and Bahá’ísm

Country where Bahá’ísm emerged. :: Iran (Persia)

Century when Bahá’ísm emerged. :: 19th century

The most radical form of jiyū shūkyō per Imaoka. :: Bahá’ísm

Year Imaoka attempted to visit a Bahá’í Faith headquarters. :: 1961

The Bahá’í Faith headquarters Imaoka attempted to visit was located in Haifa, northern Israel.

Per Imaoka, what could make a free-religion ossified and restrictive over time? :: Too much emphasis on form or organization.

Concerning a religion's organization and form, what are two errors to make per Imaoka? :: To disregard or overemphasize them.

Metaphor Imaoka used to explain the relevance of form in religion. :: Life

How did Imaoka use life as a metaphor of religion's form? :: Like life, religion's form constantly evolves.

Considering that a religion evolves, the forms it take are therefore provisional.

Per Imaoka, why is a religion's form extremely valuable even if always provisional? :: It is its form at that moment.

Imaoka equates the endless dynamic evolution associated with jiyū shūkyō with what Christian concept? :: Eternal life

Per Imaoka, what have most conservatives and traditionalists done to supposed dynamic religious forms? :: Froze them and made them eternal and absolute.

Give examples of Western religious leaders Imaoka considers free-religionists. (Hint: Bugalion) :: Jesus, George Fox (Quakers), Martin Luther (Protestants)

Give examples of Buddhist religious leaders Imaoka considers free-religionists. :: Shakyamuni, Shinran, Dōgen, and Nichiren.

Give example of free religionists from India per Imaoka: Rammohan Roy, Ramakrishna, and Vivekananda

Per Imaoka, what were Shakyamuni and Christ's position on founding a religion. :: They didn't intend it.

What was Imaoka's observation on the relationship of the aspiration for unity and conflict? :: Those who aspire for unity will inevitable experience conflict.

Metaphor Imaoka used to illustrate the necessity of resistance, protest, and conflict as an individual or group aspires for freedom and unity. :: A fish trapped in a tank can't resist leaping out of it until it is freed into a pond or river.

Per Imaoka, what forms of conflicts lead to "a higher-order and truer harmony and universality"? :: Thorough conflicts on matters that must be contended.

The general prerequisite Imaoka laid to consider a form of human activity sacred and religious. :: It involves the expression and development of human nature.

Per Imaoka, when secular human activities are considered religion, it is simple to do what with the term "religion"? :: Abolish it.

Per Imaoka, what is the only meaningful function of religious organizations and professional clergy? :: Mediate between the supposed "secular" world and the "sacred" world.

Per Imaoka, what are secular institutions sometimes capable of doing even without the help of religious organizations and professional clergy? :: Reach the realm of religion.

Per Imaoka, the two kinds of religion are narrow and broad.

Between the two kinds of religion, jiyū shūkyō falls where? :: Broad.

Per Imaoka, between laypeople and specialists, jiyū shūkyō is whose religion? :: laypeople