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 42
... reli- gions were looked upon with suspicion , then we indeed have a success story . Transformation from an Immigrant Religion SGI - USA has gone to some lengths to reformulate its identity from a religion of Japanese immigrants into an ...
... reli- gions were looked upon with suspicion , then we indeed have a success story . Transformation from an Immigrant Religion SGI - USA has gone to some lengths to reformulate its identity from a religion of Japanese immigrants into an ...
Page 108
... reli- gious public . This new receptivity in the United States to religions of Eastern origin grew out of what might be described as a cultural awakening . From the crisis of meaning that accompanied America's entry into world politics ...
... reli- gious public . This new receptivity in the United States to religions of Eastern origin grew out of what might be described as a cultural awakening . From the crisis of meaning that accompanied America's entry into world politics ...
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... reli- gion is cross - tabulated with experience in psychotherapy . Most converts answered " no " to both questions , but only 7 percent said they had explored both . This means that the pattern of self- searching exhibited by over a ...
... reli- gion is cross - tabulated with experience in psychotherapy . Most converts answered " no " to both questions , but only 7 percent said they had explored both . This means that the pattern of self- searching exhibited by over a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soka Gakkai History and Philosophy | 13 |
The Membership of SGIUSA | 36 |
Copyright | |
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