Levi McLaughlin Soka Gakkai`s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan 9780824884284

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Автор: Levi McLaughlin
Название: Soka Gakkai`s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780824884284
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Азии

История религии

Буддизм

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

ISBN-10: 0824884280
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 236
Вес: 0.37 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2020
Серия: Contemporary buddhism
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 2 charts
Размер: 153 x 228 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Asian history,Buddhism,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, HISTORY / Asia / Japan,RELIGION / Buddhism / History,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Подзаголовок: The rise of a mimetic nation in modern japan
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Soka Gakkai is Japans largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members in 192 countries and territories. The religion is best known for its affiliated political party, Komeito (the Clean Government Party), which comprises part of the ruling coalition in Japans National Diet, and it exerts considerable influence in education, media, finance, and other key areas. Levi McLaughlin’s comprehensive account of Soka Gakkai draws on nearly two decades of archival research and non-member fieldwork to account for its institutional development beyond Buddhism and suggest how we should understand the activities and dispositions of its adherents. McLaughlin explores the groups Nichiren Buddhist origins and turns to insights from religion, political science, anthropology, and cultural studies to characterize Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state. Ethnographic vignettes combine with historical evidence to demonstrate ways Soka Gakkais twin Buddhist and modern humanist legacies inform the organizations mimesis of the modern Japan in which the group took shape. To make this argument, McLaughlin analyzes Gakkai sources heretofore untreated in English-language scholarship; provides a close reading of the serial novel The Human Revolution, which serves the Gakkai as both history and de facto scripture; identifies ways episodes from members lives form new chapters in its growing canon; and contributes to discussions of religion and gender as he chronicles the lives of members who simultaneously reaffirm generational transmission of Gakkai devotion as they pose challenges for the organizations future.Readers looking for analyses of the nation-state and strategies for understanding New Religions and modern Buddhism will find Soka Gakkais Human Revolution to be an especially thought-provoking study that offers widely applicable theoretical models.
Дополнительное описание: Buddhism|Asian history|Social and cultural anthropology

Soka Gakkai`s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan, Levi McLaughlin