How Soka Gakkai became a global Buddist movement : the internationalization of a Japanese religion

著者

• Metraux, Daniel Alfred

書誌事項

How Soka Gakkai became a global Buddist movement : the internationalization of a Japanese religion

Daniel A. Métraux ; with a foreword by Wilton S. Dillon

Edwin Mellen Press, c2010

注記

Bibliography: p.135-136

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The Soka Gakkai is a massive Japan-based New Religious Movement based on the Buddhist teachings of the medieval Buddhist monk Nichiren. This work examines Soka Gakkai International chapters in Australia, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Quebec to determine why the movement has developed strong roots among people from widely divergent cultures.

目次

• Foreword by Wilton S. Dillon
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. The Origins and Global Expansion of Soka Gakkai
• 2. The Soka Gakkai in Australia and New Zealand
• 3. The Soka Gakkai in Southeast Asia
• 4. The Soka Gakkai in Cambodia
• 5. The Philippines: Buddhism in a Very Catholic Land
• 6. The Soka Gakkai in Quebec
• 7. The Soka Gakkai's Unique Relationships with China and South Korea
• Conclusion: The Soka Gakkai as a Global Community
• Appendix I: Brief Commentary on the Soka Gakkai in the United States Bibliography
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB05631972
• ISBN:
  • 9780773437586
• LCCN: 2009049184
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lewiston, N.Y.
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 139 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : BQ8412.8
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Sōka Gakkai -- History
  • LCSH : Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Sōka Gakkai
  • LCSH : Buddhism and culture