Beethoven and Buddhism in a Japanese Religion: Culture as Cultivation in Soka Gakkai
Abstract Why is the museum at the headquarters of the lay Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai full of pianos? How did Gakkai members in Japan come to revere the compositions and ethos of Ludwig van Beethoven as means of defending Buddhist orthodoxy? And how did this Buddhist organization come...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Numen
Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 593-618 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sōka-Gakkai
/ Classical music
/ Buddhism
/ Cultural development
/ Religious development
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Soka Gakkai B Beethoven B classical music B Aesthetics B Orthodoxy |
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