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. |
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Page 128
... human problems such as crime , disease , and poverty . While transmodernism possesses an overall optimism about the possibility of human development through knowledge - one of the key characteristics of modern- ity - transmoderns are ...
... human problems such as crime , disease , and poverty . While transmodernism possesses an overall optimism about the possibility of human development through knowledge - one of the key characteristics of modern- ity - transmoderns are ...
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... human beings but also to the natural and physical world . And whereas the culture of modernism tends to reject things of the past in the hope of new and better things to come , transmodernism looks to the future with optim- ism but ...
... human beings but also to the natural and physical world . And whereas the culture of modernism tends to reject things of the past in the hope of new and better things to come , transmodernism looks to the future with optim- ism but ...
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... human decision - making basic to economic analysis and applied it to reli- gious decision - making . Rational choice theory , as it is called , is based on the fundamental maxim that “ humans seek what they perceive to be rewards and ...
... human decision - making basic to economic analysis and applied it to reli- gious decision - making . Rational choice theory , as it is called , is based on the fundamental maxim that “ humans seek what they perceive to be rewards and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soka Gakkai History and Philosophy | 13 |
The Membership of SGIUSA | 36 |
Copyright | |
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