Soka Gakkai in America - Accommodation and Conversion

Zusatztext one learns a great deal about the appeal! proselytizing strategy! and values of Soka Gakkai! as well as a realistic assessment of its current demographics. Richard Seager! Religious Studies Review! Vol 27! No 2! April 2001 Klappentext This is the first in-depth study of the Soka Gakkai Buddhists in the United States. 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 this sect are drawn from a growing "transmodern" subculture in America. In addition! the book traces the development of the organization in the US! examining how it adapted to the peculiar circumstances of America's cultural life showing how it has now become a very American phenomenon. Zusammenfassung This is the first-ever in-depth study of the Soka Gakkai Buddhists in the United States of America. Drawing on new and revealing surveys and interviews, it paints a fascinating picture of one of the fastest-growing religions in the world.

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• Authors: Phillip Hammond, Phillip E. Hammond, Phillip E. Machacek Hammond, David Machacek, David W. Machacek, Machacek David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780198293897
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829389-7
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; USA, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Buddhism, United States of America, USA, Social groups: clubs & societies, Social groups: clubs and societies