Soka Gakkai-USA at 55（大阪大学出版会） [電子書籍]Ω

アメリカ創価学会（SGI-USA）の歴史と創価学会の海外布教の過程を、一次資料や関係者への現地調査をもとに、宗教社会学の視点から明らかにする。戦後、ヒッピー文化ただ中のアメリカにおいて、日蓮仏法はどのように受け入れられたのか。渡米し布教の中心的役割を担った日本人や日系人たちによって信仰はどのように伝えられていったのか。併せて高度成長期以降の日本における創価学会本体の変容も鳥瞰している。『アメリカ創価学会〈SGI-USA〉の55年』（2017年、新曜社）の英訳版。The Soka Gakkai is the most well-known and the largest of new religious movements (NRMs) in Japan. This book analyzes the history of the SGI-USA(Soka Gakkai International-USA) and the Soka Gakkai’s evangelizing in the U.S. from a sociological perspective of religion. How did the Japanese Soka Gakkai come to be accepted by Americans and take root in American society in the U.S., a country with a very different culture and religion? How was Nichiren Buddhism accepted in the U.S. in the midst of the postwar hippie culture? How was the faith transmitted to the United States by the Japanese and Nikkei who played a central role in the missionary work? The authors’ 15 visits to the U.S., in which they participated in local events of the organization and interviewed more than 70 SGI members in the U.S., revealed these questions and provides a birds-eye view of the transformation of the Soka Gakkai in Japan since the period of rapid growth. This book is the English translation of “America Soka Gakkai 〈SGI-USA〉 no 55 nen”(2017, Shinyosha Ltd.).目次IntroductionCHAPTER 1 From Hawaii to the West Coast1. Hawaii: The dawn of SGI2. The first person who greeted the president outside of Japan3. War brides4. Living in America5. Second generation Japanese-Americans6. Developments in the 1960s: Japan and the US7. The civil rights movement and the Vietnam WarCHAPTER 2 From the period of maturity into the period of stagnation1. “Hippy to Happy”2. Ethan Gelbaum3. Signs of trials and tribulations4. Shift of focus in the phase of maturity5. Establishment of SGI6. Blue Hawaii Convention7. The second phase of kosen-rufu and Phase Two8. Like wildfire9. George M. WilliamsCHAPTER 3 Across the ocean: US and Japan1. A period of stagnation2. The first priesthood issue3. Chicago visit and Capture the Spirit Festival4. Capture the Spirit Festival and World Peace Culture Festival5. First SGI General Meeting6. “Royal” at heart7. Touring across the Northern Hemisphere to “establish the correct teaching for the peace and security of the world”8. Spiritual independenceCHAPTER 4 Building a foundation for the next thousand tears1. A seventeen-day stay in Los Angeles, February 1990: Part 12. A seventeen-day stay in Los Angeles, February 1990: Part 23. SGI-USA4. Toward the establishment of “SGI Buddhism”5. The 55th anniversary of the kosen-rufu movement in the USCONCLUSION American society and Nichiren Buddhism: Affinity between them1. Potential power of chanting2. “Attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime”Afterword