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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... Reason Marginal General Core All The goal was incompatible with my lifelong happiness / Buddhahood 22 25 19 23 Chanting doesn't work for some goals 12 1 4 I probably need to go through my human revolution before I'll achieve that goal ...
... Reason Marginal General Core All The goal was incompatible with my lifelong happiness / Buddhahood 22 25 19 23 Chanting doesn't work for some goals 12 1 4 I probably need to go through my human revolution before I'll achieve that goal ...
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... reason to believe the claims that chanting can change one's life , would have little reason to invest the time and energy needed to learn how to chant . Understandably , then , very few of the respondents to the 1997 survey reported ...
... reason to believe the claims that chanting can change one's life , would have little reason to invest the time and energy needed to learn how to chant . Understandably , then , very few of the respondents to the 1997 survey reported ...
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... reason for getting involved . Thirty - five percent cited curiosity , which itself could have been stimulated by an acquain- tance with an SGI member . Even many of those 12 percent who said they got involved after a chance encounter ...
... reason for getting involved . Thirty - five percent cited curiosity , which itself could have been stimulated by an acquain- tance with an SGI member . Even many of those 12 percent who said they got involved after a chance encounter ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soka Gakkai History and Philosophy | 13 |
The Membership of SGIUSA | 36 |
Copyright | |
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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