Author: White, James W.
Title: The Sokagakkai and Mass Society
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1970. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii, 376 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Origins, Structure & Politics: Social Structure & Social Strain; Sokagakkai Beliefs; Precipitation & Mobilization; The Membership; Recruitment & Indoctrination; Goals & Internal Government; The Sokagakkai &Politics; The Komeito in Action; The Sokagakkai & the Mass Model: The Member as Mass Man; The Sokagakkai as a Mass Movement; The Sokagakkai & the Individual; The Sokagakkai & Its Japanese Environment; Possibilities & Problems: Appendices: A Note on Data & Methodology; Sokagakkai Membership Figures; Administrative Structure of the Sokagakkai & the Komeito; Support,Strength & Electoral Performance of the Sokagakkai & the Komeito.

Keywords: Sociology of Religion, Japan, Sokagakkai, Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist Sects, Political History, Religious Movement, Nationalism, Nationalist Party