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NPR’s New Religions Survey, Part III: Soka Gakkai

CPR, USA
May 12, 2004 Audio
www.npr.org

ReligionNewsBlog.com • Thursday May 13, 2004

As part of our series on new religious movements, NPR’s Mandalit del Barco explores a modern version of Buddhism known as Soka Gakkai. It’s an import from Asia, brought to the United States by Japanese war brides. In the 1960s, it caught on with anti-war hippies. Now it has more than 300,000 adherents in the United States, most of them middle class, from all ethnic groups.

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