The Soka Gakkai Practice of Buppō and the Discourse on Religion in Japan

This paper investigates the Japanese Nichiren Buddhist organization, Soka Gakkai (SG), whose members have supported the political party known as Kōmeitō, or Clean Government Party, in Japan for over half a century. SG members have often been criticized as ‘impure’ political actors, undergoing freque...

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Main Author: Fisker-Nielsen, Anne Mette (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 2
Further subjects:B buppō
B Soka Gakkai
B critical religion
B discourse on religion in Japan
B ōbutsu myōgō
B Kōmeitō
B religion and politics in Japan
B life-state
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