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Global citizens : the Soka Gakkai Buddhist Movement in the world / edited by David Machacek and Bryan Wilson.

Contributor(s): Machacek, David W | Wilson, Bryan R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xiii, 442 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0199240396 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Sōka Gakkai -- HistoryDDC classification: 294.3/928 LOC classification: BQ8412.8 | .G56 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-433) and index.
Contents:
Soka Gakkai in historical perspective / Noriyoshi Tamaru -- The legacy of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: value-creating education and global citizenship / Dayle Bethel -- A Buddhist reformation in the twentieth century: causes and implications of the conflict between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood / Jane Hurst -- Soka Gakkai and Japanese politics / Hiroshi Aruga -- The changing role of the Komeito in Japanese politics in the 1990s / Daniel Metraux -- The role of women / Atsuko Usui -- The movement and the Japanese media / Takesato Watanabe -- Toward a pillar organization? / Karel Dobbelaere -- Immigrant Buddhists in America / David Machacek and Kerry Mitchell -- Organizational isomorphism in SGI-USA / David Machacek -- Socially inclusive Buddhists in America / David W. Chappell -- Buddhist humanism and Catholic culture in Brazil / Peter Clarke -- The British movement and its members / Bryan Wilson -- Buddhism in action: case studies from Italy / Maria Immacolata Macioti -- The expansion of Soka Gakkai into southeast Asia / Daniel Metraux.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-433) and index.

Soka Gakkai in historical perspective / Noriyoshi Tamaru -- The legacy of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: value-creating education and global citizenship / Dayle Bethel -- A Buddhist reformation in the twentieth century: causes and implications of the conflict between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood / Jane Hurst -- Soka Gakkai and Japanese politics / Hiroshi Aruga -- The changing role of the Komeito in Japanese politics in the 1990s / Daniel Metraux -- The role of women / Atsuko Usui -- The movement and the Japanese media / Takesato Watanabe -- Toward a pillar organization? / Karel Dobbelaere -- Immigrant Buddhists in America / David Machacek and Kerry Mitchell -- Organizational isomorphism in SGI-USA / David Machacek -- Socially inclusive Buddhists in America / David W. Chappell -- Buddhist humanism and Catholic culture in Brazil / Peter Clarke -- The British movement and its members / Bryan Wilson -- Buddhism in action: case studies from Italy / Maria Immacolata Macioti -- The expansion of Soka Gakkai into southeast Asia / Daniel Metraux.

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