Soka Gakkai International in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This paper analyzes the activities of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in South Africa, a largely Christian country with the presence of very strong African Independent and Pentecostal churches, where Buddhism has mostly attracted the attention of a small minority of white middle-class people interes...
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Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 11 |
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