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Charts. Very Good+ in Near Fine (in mylar) jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pencil marks, underlining, and some blue ink marks, else textblock is clean and very tight; All page edges are straight and sound. Navy blue cloth binding, minimally shelf worn. Unclipped dust jacket also minimally shelf worn, scuffed back cover. 224pp., including appendix, references, glossary, and index.
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Like New. Size: 6x0x9; Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. "This is the first-ever in-depth study of the Soka Gakkai Buddhists in the United States of America (SGI-USA). Drawing on unprecedented access to the organization through surveys and interviews, it provides a definitive and revealing picture of one of the fastest-growing religions in the world. The authors shed light on contemporary American society and show how many members of SGI-USA are drawn from a growing 'transmodern' subculture in America." "In addition, the book traces the development of the organization in the USA, examining how it adapted to the peculiar circumstances of America's cultural life and showing how SGI-USA became a very American phenomenon."
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New in fine dust jacket. NEW, Tall HARDBACK w/Dustjacket, SIGNED by both AUTHORS, FINE copy. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. The heart of this book is the authors' survey of 401 members of the Soka Gakkai randomly selected & although the research was funded by the Sooka Gakkai itself, the authors do a commendable job of keeping their critical distance, while still maintaining sympathy with their subjects. Hammond and Machacek used a long, carefully constructed closed-ended questionnaire that proves to be a rich mine of empirical data. They do an excellent job describing Sooka Gakkai's demographics and the attitudes of its members, and they reach some interesting conclusions about the reasons for the success of this new religion in the West. On the other hand, however, readers of this book who are not already familiar with the Sooka Gakkai are not going to get much of a feel for the role that this unique and interesting branch of Buddhism plays in its members' daily lives. We need more than a set of facts to breathe life into our understanding of religious behavior. If the authors do any more work on the Sooka Gakkai, perhaps they will be able to include more case studies and personal anecdotes to put more meat on the bones provided by their excellent quantitative research. Among their numerous interesting findings, Hammond and Machacek found that like meditation-oriented Buddhist groups, Sooka Gakkai members are far more likely than the general public to come from Jewish backgrounds and less likely to come from the conservative Protestant denominations. Sooka Gakkai also seems to be far more attractive to members of the baby-boom generation than to other-age cohorts. Sooka Gakkai members are more highly educated than the general public and more likely to be "new-class" information workers or other professionals. One striking difference from the meditation-oriented Buddhist groups is in the high percentage of minority members that the survey revealed. Eighteen percent of the respondents were African Americans a significantly higher percentage than in the overall population. The most essential practice of Sooka Gakkai Buddhism is chanting centered around veneration of the Lotus Suutra. Although this practice plays an analogous role to that of meditation in other Western Buddhist groups, there is at least one major difference. In addition to any spiritual benefits, followers of Sooka Gakkai believe that chanting produces concrete material rewards, and one of this study's most interesting findings concerns the benefits the members expect it to produce. The most common reasons the respondents gave for chanting were in descending order of importance: career success, better relationships, physical health, material rewards, and financial rewards a decidedly unspiritual list. However, when asked about the benefits they had actually gained from the practice, there was a major shift; the respondents were far more likely to mention things related to psychological well-being and spiritual growth. Hammond and Machacek's repeated use of a market analogy to interpret their rich collection of data was more problematic. It is one thing to talk about the "religious marketplace, " but when the authors start discussing the "supply side" and "demand side" of religion, the analogy begins to obscure more than it reveals. For one thing, the economic analogy subtly derides the religious experience, implying that it is no more profound or important than the experience of buying a new car or making a killing on the stock market. But beyond that, the simple fact is that religious behavior is not based on a market. Although religion can have profound economic implications, it is not centered on the buying, selling, or exchange of commodities; nor is it governed by the laws of supply and demand. If a local church is losing members, it cannot put its "product" on sale to attract more customers. What sense does it make to depend so heavily on a market analogy when such basic market mechanisms simply do not operate? There is little doubt that the demands of the global market are...
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