"We Alone Can Save Japan": Soka Gakkai’s Wartime Antecedents and Its Postwar Conversion Campaign
Between 1945 and 1951, the Nichiren Buddhist lay organization Soka Gakkai, which had disbanded during the Pacific War, regrouped and burgeoned in a massive proselytizing campaign led by its second president, Toda Jōsei. This effort intertwined three aims: to spread faith in the Lotus Sūtra as the ba...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
2021
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 267-298 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Sōka-Gakkai
/ Identity
/ Conversion
/ History 1937-1958
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AZ New religious movements BL Buddhism KBM Asia RJ Mission; missiology TK Recent history |
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