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 38
... rates for the four publications most commonly read by American members , from 1964 to the present.2 From these data ... rate , which are cause for suspicion . The World Tribune is an inexpensive weekly newspaper that has served as a ...
... rates for the four publications most commonly read by American members , from 1964 to the present.2 From these data ... rate , which are cause for suspicion . The World Tribune is an inexpensive weekly newspaper that has served as a ...
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... Japanese- speaking members can be based on the average rate of subscrip- tion for these two publications , which comes to 5,069 . Using the subscription rates to Living Buddhism and the average 40 The Organization and its Members.
... Japanese- speaking members can be based on the average rate of subscrip- tion for these two publications , which comes to 5,069 . Using the subscription rates to Living Buddhism and the average 40 The Organization and its Members.
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... rates of recruitment , but also with low rates of conversion . Most of the people intro- duced to Soka Gakkai through this means stayed long enough to satisfy whatever curiosity they may have had about a religion that advertises itself ...
... rates of recruitment , but also with low rates of conversion . Most of the people intro- duced to Soka Gakkai through this means stayed long enough to satisfy whatever curiosity they may have had about a religion that advertises itself ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soka Gakkai History and Philosophy | 13 |
The Membership of SGIUSA | 36 |
Copyright | |
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