The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (625 page)

(1858–1916).
Christian hermit. Brought to Roman Catholicism by Abbé Huvelin, he sought a life of poverty and solitude, finally as a hermit in the Sahara amongst the Muslim Tuaregs. He won their respect by his sympathy with their language and way of life, but was assassinated by one in 1916. His missionary ideal of prayerful presence, by way of commitment to a local circumstance, inspired the Little Brothers and the Little Sisters who follow a rule he composed, though in his lifetime no one joined him. See also
PETITS FRÈRES
.

 
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(Pers., ‘kettle’, ‘sword’). A summary of the Sikh obligation for the
Panth
to provide food and protection for the hungry and the unprotected.

 
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(1836–1918).
Female
shaman
and founder of the new Japanese religion,
moto-ky
. Through spirit writing, originally scratching these communications with a nail, she began to attract a large following. She met Ueda Kisaburo in 1898, and in 1900 recognized him as the promised saviour. He married Sumi, Nao's daughter, and became known as Deguchi Onisaburo. Deguchi Nao is venerated as
Kaiso
(spiritual founder) and Onisaburo as
Ky
so
(doctrinal founder).

 
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Déïma
or Dahima
.

The largest (after the
Harris
churches) of the new religions in the Ivory Coast, with some 50,000 members among the Godié, Dida, Bakwé, and Bété peoples. Guigba Dahonon (1892–1951), a childless Godié, widowed in 1922, had various mystical experiences before developing a new teaching and movement, the Église Déïmatiste (a neologism), in 1942.

 
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Deipara
(mother of God)
:

see
THEOTOKOS
.

 
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