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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... Rational choice theory , as it is called , is based on the fundamental maxim that “ humans seek what they perceive ... theory is to weigh the costs and rewards associated with any decision to see if the choice made is in fact rational ...
... Rational choice theory , as it is called , is based on the fundamental maxim that “ humans seek what they perceive ... theory is to weigh the costs and rewards associated with any decision to see if the choice made is in fact rational ...
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... rational choice theory provides some insight into the SGI - USA conversion process . It was noted earlier that when converts joined SGI , they were , in many ways , free to move around in the social world . This structural freedom ...
... rational choice theory provides some insight into the SGI - USA conversion process . It was noted earlier that when converts joined SGI , they were , in many ways , free to move around in the social world . This structural freedom ...
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... theories — specifically , rational choice theory - to religious behavior involves this third type of social action . As noted above , analyzing religious behavior in terms of rational choices suffers from the lack of a common metric ...
... theories — specifically , rational choice theory - to religious behavior involves this third type of social action . As noted above , analyzing religious behavior in terms of rational choices suffers from the lack of a common metric ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soka Gakkai History and Philosophy | 13 |
The Membership of SGIUSA | 36 |
Copyright | |
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