Global Citizens

The Soka Gakkai Buddhist Movement in the World

David Machacek, Bryan Wilson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2000
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-924039-5 (ISBN)

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A study of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist movement providing an historical overview of the importance of the movement as an educational reform society and its development into a sect of Nichiren Buddhism. It provides details of Soka Gakkai activity Japanese politics and its spread throughout the world.

Global Citizens is a study of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist movement, which was founded in 1930 in Japan, spread rapidly after the Second World War, and has since developed a world-wide following. The book provides an historical overview of the development of the movement as an educational reform society, its development into a sect of Nichiren Buddhism. It provides important details of Soka Gakkai's entry into Japanese politics, including up-to-date information on the relationship between the Komeito - the political party founded by the Soka Gakkai - and the Liberal Democratic Party–its historical opponent in Japanese politics and present partner in the ruling coalition. The book then documents the spread of Soka Gakkai Buddhism to North and South America, Europe, and other Asian countries.

PART I: ORIGINS AND CHANGES IN JAPAN ; PART II: INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.12.2000
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 226 mm
Gewicht	644 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-19-924039-6 / 0199240396
ISBN-13	978-0-19-924039-5 / 9780199240395
Zustand	Neuware