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The History and Theology of Soka Gakkai

A Japanese New Religion

by Daniel A. Métraux

An early English-language scholarly study of Soka Gakkai's origins, doctrines and organisation, from Makiguchi and Toda to Ikeda. It discusses the movement's relationship to Nichiren Shōshū and its political activity.

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