1st Edition

Japanese New Religions in the West

By Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey Somers Copyright 1994
    180 Pages
    by Routledge

    178 Pages
    by Routledge

    An excellent and very timely update on an area seeing many recent developments.

    Chapter 1 Japanese 'New' and 'New, New' Religions: An Introduction, Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey Somers; Chapter 2 A Buddhologist's Impression of Japanese Buddhism, Richard Gombrich; Chapter 3 The Goddess Emerges from her Cave: Fujita Himiko and her Dragon Palace Family, Carmen Blacker; Chapter 4 New Japanese Religions in the United States, J. Gordon Melton, Constance A. Jones; Chapter 5 Japanese New Religious Movements in Britain, Jeffrey Somers; Chapter 6 National and International Identity in a Japanese Religion, Michael Pye; Chapter 7 Jesus in Japan: Christian Syncretism in Mahikari, Catherine Cornille; Chapter 8 Japanese Monotheism and New Religions, J.H. Kamstra; Chapter 9 Of Priests, Protests and Protestant Buddhists: the Case of Soka Gakkai International, Brian Booking; Chapter 10 S?t? Zen Buddhism in Britain, Reverend Daishin Morgan; Chapter 11 Japanese 'Old', 'New' and 'New, New' Religious Movements in Brazil, Peter B. Clarke;

    Biography

    Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey Somers