‘genderism vs. humanism’: the generational shift and push for implementing gender equality within soka gakkai-japan

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    As an organization that has long claimed to support an internationalist/global ‘humanist` agenda, driven by Daisaku Ikeda`s interpretation of Nichiren Buddhism, SG in Japan also rose to prominence in a society that culturally and ‘legally` stratified men and women through a systematic gender division of labor. I loosely refer to these two processes as Japan`s ‘principles of gender`, or ‘genderism` (ジェンダー 主義) and SG`s promotion of global citizenship as the fostering of ‘Buddhist humanism`. The active promotion of gender equality under Ikeda in SG as a global civil society created tension with . . .

     

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