Soka Gakkai in America: Accommodation and ConversionThis is the first-ever in-depth study of the Soka Gakkai Buddhists in the United States of America (SGI-USA). Drawing on unprecedented access to the organization through surveys and interviews, it provides a definitive and revealing picture of one of the fastest-growing religions in the world. The authors shed light on contemporary American society and show how many members of SGI-USA are drawn from a growing `transmodern' subculture in America. In addition the book traces the development of the organization in the USA, examining how it adapted to the peculiar circumstances of America's cultural life and showing how SGI-USA became a very American phenomenon. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 28
Page 112
... Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , Max Weber demonstrated that the ethics promoted by Calvinist Protestantism contributed to the development of capitalism in both ways . Protestants felt compelled to work hard in this world ...
... Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , Max Weber demonstrated that the ethics promoted by Calvinist Protestantism contributed to the development of capitalism in both ways . Protestants felt compelled to work hard in this world ...
Page 113
... Protestant religious heritage , a new problem challenged Protestant restrictions on consumption . To be sure , this problem was slow to emerge and even slower to be recognized , but once the industrial , capitalist economy was developed ...
... Protestant religious heritage , a new problem challenged Protestant restrictions on consumption . To be sure , this problem was slow to emerge and even slower to be recognized , but once the industrial , capitalist economy was developed ...
Page 175
... Protestant religion . Trans- modernism shares with that tradition the emphasis on the individual's salvation and personal relationship with the sacred , but it relocates the sacred in the here and now . Thus , the indi- vidual's ...
... Protestant religion . Trans- modernism shares with that tradition the emphasis on the individual's salvation and personal relationship with the sacred , but it relocates the sacred in the here and now . Thus , the indi- vidual's ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soka Gakkai History and Philosophy | 13 |
The Membership of SGIUSA | 36 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
achieved active agree already alternative American public appear asked associated become believe benefits Buddhism chanting Chapter commitment compared converts core costs culture currently described dropped efforts encounter environment expect experience fact friends goal going growth human immigrants important included indicate individual interest involvement Japan Japanese joining leaders less levels lives marginal means meetings membership movement nature Nichiren Nichiren Shoshu Note organization orientation pattern percent positive possible practice Press priesthood probably promote Protestant question questionnaire rates rational choice theory reason recruitment relationships relatively reli religion religious remain reported represents requires respondents rewards sample SGI members SGI-USA members social society Soka Gakkai members spiritual subscription success suggests survey Table things tion traditional transmodern understanding United University values week world peace