thumb|Shingaku made use of specific dances to illustrate its worldview. '''Shingaku''' (心学, lit. "heart learning") or '''Sekimon-shingaku''' (石門心学) is a Japanese religious movement, founded by Ishida Baigan and further developed by Teshima Toan, which was especially influential during the Tokugawa period. Shingaku has been characterized as coming from the Neo-Confucian tradition, integrating principles from Zen Buddhism and Shinto (Chang 2010). It has been speculated that Shingaku was one of the cultural foundations for Japan's industrialization. (Sawada, 1993; Bellah, 1957)
==References== * Kun-Chiang Chang. "[http://thjcs.web.nthu.edu.tw/files/14-1662-65606,r3918-1.php Comparison between the Sekimon Shingaku 石門心學 and Yomeigaku 陽明學 in Japan]" 清華學報 40.4 (2010) *Janine Anderson Sawada,''Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan'', Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0-8248-1414-2}}. ''from {{cite web|url= http://www.ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/430.pdf |title=book review }} {{small|(67.9 KiB)}}'' *[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/Bellah/articles_4.htm speech in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Founding of Shingaku] * Robert N. Bellah, ''Tokugawa Religion: The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan'', 1957
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