Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution : : The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan / / Levi McLaughlin.
Soka Gakkai is Japan's largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members in 192 countries and territories. The religion is best known for its affiliated political party, Komeito (the Clean Government Party),...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Buddhism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) :; 2 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE. Soka Gakkai as Mimetic Nation
- CHAPTER TWO. From Intellectual Collective to Religion: A History of Soka Gakkai
- CHAPTER THREE. Soka Gakkai's Dramatic Narrative
- CHAPTER FOUR. Participating in Canon: The Formation of Sacred Texts in a New Religion
- CHAPTER FIVE. Cultivating Youth: Discipleship through Standardized Education
- CHAPTER SIX. Good Wives, Wise Mothers, and Foot Soldiers of Conversion
- Afterword: Vocational Paths
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index