Refocusing Body, Mind and Community Interconnections: Soka Gakkai’s “Mission” and “Human Revolution” amidst the Biosocial Crisis of COVID-19
This paper explores responses to COVID-19 by the Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai in Japan. Sōka means ‘value-creation’, but what kind of ‘value’ was created amidst a global pandemic? So-called ‘new religions’ in the context of Japan are typically presumed to embody a ‘flight from the human world’...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Social sciences and missions
Year: 2022, Volume: 35, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 274-307 |
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Yōkai
B buppō B Spirituality B ecological sustainability and biosocial awareness B bien-être B développement durable B Covid-19 B life-state B Spiritualité B human revolution B Well-being B Soka Gakkai B conscience biosociale B santé B SDG s B révolution humaine B Mission (international law |
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