Pereira, Ronan Alves, and Hideaki Matsuoka, eds.
Japan Research Monograph 15
2007. 251 pp.
ISBN 1-55729-087-3
$22.00
Forward - vii
Andrew Barshay
Introduction - 1
Part I: Japanese Religions in the World - 15
1. The Expansion of Japan's New Religions Overseas - 17
Susumu Shimazono
2. The Settlement of Zen in Australia - 30
Gary D. Bouma
3. Sūkyō Mahikari in Australia and Southeast Asia: A Globalized New Religious Movement outside the Japanese Diaspora - 45
Wendy A. Smith
4. The Farce of the "Great Russian Salvation Tour": The Legacy of Aum Shinrikyō in Mother Russia - 79
Daniel A. Metraux
5. When Uchi Goes Soto: The Travels of the Gods in the Shinto Diaspora - 102
Nelson Graburn
Part II: Japanese Religions in Brazil - 121
6. Japanese Religions in Brazil: Their Development in and out of the Diaspora Society - 123
Hideaki Matsuoka and Ronan A. Pereira
7. The Brazilian Imaginaire of Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms - 146
Christina M. Rocha
8. The Nationalization of Foreign Gods: Seichō-no-ie among Brazilians - 170
Leila M.B. de Albuquerque
9. Elevation of the Spirit: On the Continuity and Discontinuity between the Church of World Messianity and Brazilian Religions - 183
Hideaki Matsuoka
10. "A Paradise of Happiness Will Unfold in You in Brazil": Sōka Gakkai Success in and beyond the Japanese Expatriate Community - 201
Ronan A. Pereira
Afterword - 231
Robert N. Bellah
Glossary - 234
Index of Names and Terms - 246
Contributors - 249
