”Many in Body, One in Mind”（大阪大学出版会） [電子書籍]

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• The Soka Gakkai is the most well-known and the largest of new religious movements (NRMs) in Japan. This book analyzes the Soka Gakkai’s evangelizing in the United States from a sociological perspective of religion. How did the Japanese Soka Gakkai come to be accepted by Americans and take root in American society in the United States, a country with a very different culture and religion? How did a Japanese-style organization transform itself into a culture so different from Japan’s? How were the teachings and concepts translated and localized? Why, how, and for what purpose do the members of the U.S. continue their faith? The authors’ 15 visits to the U.S., in which they participated in local events of the organization and interviewed more than 70 Soka Gakkai International members in the U.S., revealed these questions from the perspective of the sociology of religion, using life history method, conversion theory, organizational theory, and the concept of cross-cultural translation. This book is the English translation of the Japanese book “‘Itai-Doshin’ in Soka Gakkai-USA”(2018, Shinyosha Ltd.).
  

• 目次

  Contents
  
  
  Preface
  
  INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER The History of SGI-USA
  1. War brides and second-generation Japanese Americans
  2. Transformation from hippie to happy
  3. Conventions
  4. Phase Two
  5. Cultural differences
  6. A seventeen-day stay in Los Angeles
  7. Toward further development in the 21st century
  
  CHAPTER 1 Nichiren Buddhism in the USA
  1. “Many in body, one in mind” in multi-ethnic society
  2. The enlightenment of women in the 21st century
  
  CHAPTER 2 Joining and converting to SGI-USA
  1. Availability and openness to join SGI
  2. People’s situation when joining SGI
  3. Spiritual inquiry and a life crisis
  4. The appeals of SGI’s Buddhist practice and the membership retention
  5. Shift from benefit-oriented seekers to altruistic believers as taught in Mahayana Buddhism
  
  CHAPTER 3 Americanization of the organizational structure
  1. Organizational development in the 1960s and beyond
  2. Phase Two and structural changes
  3. From a vertical structure to a horizontal structure: Geographical reorganization (Geo-Reo)
  
  CHAPTER 4 Two stages of Americanization: Revisiting the importance of English translation
  1. Anglicization and Phase Two
  2. Four categories of translation
  3. A shift from ‘Japanese’ English to more natural English expressions
  4. Two stages of anglicization
  
  CHAPTER 5 The oneness of mentor and disciple in America
  1. Inheritance of teachings
  2. English translation
  3. The oneness of mentor and disciple: What it means for SGI-USA members
  4. Servant Leadership
  
  Afterword
  Chronology
  References
  Index
  

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