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“We Alone Can Save Japan”: Soka Gakkai’s Wartime Antecedents and Its Postwar Conversion Campaign |
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| Author |
Stone, Jacqueline I. (著)
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.48 n.2 |
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| Date | 2021 |
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| Pages | 267 - 298 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Jacqueline I. Stone is Professor Emerita in the Department of Religion, Princeton University. |
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| Keyword | kōsen rufu; Lotus Sūtra; Makiguchi Tsunesaburō; Nichiren; Nichiren Shōshū shakubuku; Soka Gakkai; Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai; Toda Jōsei |
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| Abstract | 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 basis for Japan’s postwar reconstruction; to establish an ideal government based on Buddhist principles; and to build a national ordination platform as Japan’s sacred center. Driving it was Toda’s conviction, inherited from his teacher, Makiguchi Tsunesaburō, that Japan was suffering a profound malaise and could only be saved by embracing Nichiren’s teaching. That message formed a powerful link between wartime and postwar Soka Gakkai organizations. It drew Makiguchi into conflict with wartime ideology, leading to his arrest; amid postwar hardships, it found eager reception and shaped what would become Japan’s largest religious movement. |
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| Table of contents | Makiguchi, nichirenist exclusivism, and wartime persecution 269
Nichiren, nichiren shōshū, and the “life of supreme good” 270
A “blasphemous” teaching 273
Makiguchi admonishes the state 276
The great march of shakubuku 280
Toward the kōsen rufu of japan and east asia 281
Motivations and strategies 283
A radical timetable and early soka gakkai militancy 287
The ordination platform and electoral politics 289
Summation 293
References 294 |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 261 |
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| Created date | 2023.05.31 |
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| Modified date | 2023.05.31 |
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