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Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan

Levi McLaughlin is a scholar of Japanese religion, and this is an academic monograph published by University of Hawai'i Press studying Soka Gakkai, the lay Buddhist movement, as a modern social and religious phenomenon rather than through its own promotional materials. Its method draws on ethnographic fieldwork and the organization's own historical record to trace how Soka Gakkai built its identity and institutions in postwar Japan. Its strength is independence, it examines the movement's claims about itself critically rather than repeating them, while still taking the movement's religious self-understanding seriously rather than dismissing it. As a scholarly study focused on one national context and one period, it does not attempt to be a complete account of Soka Gakkai's international expansion or its full doctrinal system.

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Levi McLaughlin's scholarly study, published by the University of Hawai'i Press, of Soka Gakkai, the Japanese Buddhist new religious movement, examining its practice, organization and self-narrative of transformation.

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Scholarly study of Soka Gakkai, the Japanese Buddhist new religious movement, examining its practice, organization and self-narrative of transformation. Use for established scholarly facts about Soka Gakkai as a movement.

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Author

Levi McLaughlin

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu

Publication Year

2019

Source Type

academic monograph

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Japan

This source names Japan directly: "Levi McLaughlin is a scholar of Japanese religion, and this is an academic monograph published by University of Hawai'i Press studying Soka Gakkai, the lay Buddhist movement, as a modern social and..."

Source Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern JapanLevi McLaughlin

Soka Gakkai

This source names Soka Gakkai directly: "University of Hawai'i Press studying Soka Gakkai, the lay Buddhist movement, as a modern social and religious phenomenon rather than through its own promotional materials."

Source Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern JapanLevi McLaughlin

Claims Backed By This Source (76 claims)

This source backs 76 claims across the atlas. As facts: 32 well-attested. As cited relationships: 21 holds, 3 connected, 2 held Differently. Plus 18 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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Denominations, 28 claims: 13 well-attested, 11 holds, 2 held Differently, 2 general references.
Articles, 18 claims: 11 well-attested, 3 connected, 4 general references.
Doctrines, 11 claims: 1 well-attested, 5 holds, 5 general references.
Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
Years, 4 claims: 2 holds, 2 general references.
Beliefs & Restrictions, 3 claims: 3 general references.
Scriptures & Texts, 3 claims: 1 holds, 2 general references.