Levi McLaughlin

Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan

Mclaughlin, L., & Sawada, J. A. (2024, February 2). JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION, Vol. 2.

Introduction: Behind the Scenes of Media and Legal Responses to the Abe Assassination

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. https://apjjf.org/2024/10/mclaughlin

With the Liberal Democratic Party Struggling, Komeito's More Vital to Japan's Ruling Coalition Than Ever Before

(2024, January 26). Sasakawa USA Japan Political Pulse. https://spfusa.org/publications/with-the-liberal-democratic-party-struggling-komeitos-more-vital-to-japans-ruling-coalition-than-ever-before/?fbclid=IwAR0ic4ym3xazkt2oMkM_8bLqwD2LjHMntWgeCjB3x9zyTo1LDvaVciOlgxo

創価学会ー現代日本の模倣国家

In Kodansha. https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000361486

Constitutional Buddhism: Japanese Buddhists and Constitutional Law

In T. Ginsburg & B. Schonthal (Eds.), Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law (pp. 241–271). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics

Current History, 122(845), 209–216.

A Grudge Against the Unification Church Motivated the Murder of Japan’s Most Prominent Politician

Constitutional Buddhism

In Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/buddhism-and-comparative-constitutional-law/constitutional-buddhism/6F72BFE8DA4AB41969D2AA065562DA43

Komeito in 2021: Strategizing Between the LDP and Soka Gakkai

In R. J. Pekkanen, S. R. Reed, & D. M. Smith (Eds.), Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese Lower House Election. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kōmeitō in 2021: Strategizing Between the LDP and Sōka Gakkai

In R. J. Pekkanen, S. R. Reed, & D. M. Smith (Eds.), Japan Decides 2021 (pp. 71–85).

Beethoven and Buddhism in a Japanese Religion: Culture as Cultivation in Soka Gakkai

NUMEN-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS, 68(5-6), 593–618.

Disasters

In E. Baffelli, A. Castiglioni, & F. Rambelli (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions (pp. 27–33).

Investigating the Corporate Form in Practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the Public Good

In The Immanent Frame: The Corporate Form. http://tif.ssrc.org/2021/04/02/investigating-the-corporate-formin-practice/?source=relatedposts&fbclid=IwAR1J2KUaqP7wZ8O5ntEepaxxWxESV_14i1iIsqAFf_JMki6ANfSLZW1XrE.

Kōmeitō

In The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (pp. 201–222).

Making Persons, Cultures, and Nations

In The Immanent Frame: The Corporate Form. https://tif.ssrc.org/2021/05/07/making-persons-cultures-and-nations/.

Prayer as Action: Buddhist Priests During COVID-19 in Japan

Dharma World, (Spring), 22–25.

Soka Gakkai's Impact on Constitutional Revision Attempts

In H. Hardacre, T. S. George, K. Komamura, & F. Seraphim (Eds.), Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism (pp. 161–174). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Sources of Disaster: A Roundtable Discussion on New Epistemic Perspectives in Post-3.11 Japan

Onaga, L., Schieder, C. S., Buhrman, K., Jacoby, J. M., Juraku, K., Slater, D. H., … Ortiz, A. M. (2021, October 2). EAST ASIAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Vol. 15, pp. 482–496.

The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World

Numen, 68(5-6), 421–435.

The Small Pacifist Party That Could Shape Japan’s Future

Harris, T., & McLaughlin, L. (2021, April). Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/04/komeito-ldp-japan-elections-defense-policy-china/

The impact of COVID-19 on religion in Japan

Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan.

McLaughlin, L. (2020, May). JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, Vol. 79, pp. 514–517.

How to do fieldwork: Studying Japan in and outside of Japan

In N. Kottmann & C. Reiher (Eds.), Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods (pp. 157–168).

Japanese Religious Responses to COVID-19: A Preliminary Report

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 18(9), 5394. https://apjjf.org/2020/9/McLaughlin.html

Naviguer entre deux eaux: plongée au coeur des groups LGBTQ+ du Soka Gakkai = Navigating Between Two Waters: A Plunge into the Heart of the LGBTQ+ Groups of Soka Gakkai

Tempura, (Winter), 60–63.

The Soka Gakkai Economy. Measuring Cycles of Exchange That Power Japan’s Largest Buddhist Lay Organization

In T. Brox & E. Williams-Oerberg (Eds.), Buddhism and Business: Merit, Material Wealth, and Morality in the Global Market Economy (pp. 76–92).

Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 88(3), 693–725.

Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution

Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō’s “Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains” (2014)

In P. Salguero (Ed.), Buddhism and Medicine (pp. 164–176).

Kōmeitō 2017: New Complications

Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution

In University of Hawaii Press. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/soka-gakkais-human-revolution-the-rise-of-a-mimetic-nation-in-modern-japan/

Women in Japanese Religions by Barbara R. Ambros

[Review of Women in Japanese Religions, by B. R. Ambros]. The Journal of Japanese Studies, 44(1), 160–165.

The Rise of the "Clinical Religionist"

In J. Samuels, J. T. McDaniel, & M. M. Rowe (Eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia (pp. 65–67).

Two Self-Sacrificing Bureaucrats

In J. Samuels, J. T. McDaniel, & M. M. Rowe (Eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia (pp. 99–102).

Hard lessons learned: Tracking changes in media presentations of religion and religious aid mobilization after the 1995 and 2011 disasters in Japan

Asian Ethnology, 75(1), 105–137.

Japan’s Ruling Coalition Gets Religion

In New Perspectives on Japan from the U.S.- Japan Network for the Future (pp. 29–34). Washington, D.C: The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.

Religious Responses to the 2011 Tsunami in Japan

In Oxford Handbooks Online.

Salvage and salvation: Guest editors’ introduction

Asian Ethnology, 75(1), 1–28.

Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima.

JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES, Vol. 41, pp. 153–158.

Komeito’s Soka Gakkai Protestors and Supporters: Religious Motivations for Political Activism in Contemporary Japan

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(41), 4386. http://japanfocus.org/-Levi-McLaughlin/4386/article.html

Electioneering as Religious Practice: A History of Sōka Gakkai’s Political Activities to 1970

In G. Ehrhardt, A. Klein, L. McLaughlin, & S. R. Reed (Eds.), Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan (pp. 51–82). Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies.

Komeito: Politics and Religion in Japan

In G. Ehrhardt, A. Klein, L. McLaughlin, & S. R. Reed (Eds.), Komeito: Politics and Religion in Japan (pp. 269–275). Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies.

Kōmeitō: Religion and Politics in Japan

Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Kōmeitō: The Most Understudied Party of Japanese Politics

In G. Ehrhardt, A. Klein, L. McLaughlin, & S. R. Reed (Eds.), Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan (pp. 3–22). Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California.

Reconnecting with Everyday Life: Buddhism through Simple Gestures in the Café de Monk

McLaughlin, L. (2013, July). Dharma World, 40, 22–25.

Sōka Gakkai

In D. Bromley (Ed.), World Religions & Spirituality Project. https://wrldrels.org/2016/10/08/soka-gakkai/

What Have Religious Groups Done After 3.11? Part 1: A Brief Survey of Religious Mobilization after the Great East Japan Earthquake Disasters

Religion Compass, 7(8), 294–308.

What Have Religious Groups Done After 3.11? Part 2: From Religious Mobilization to “Spiritual Care”

What Have Religious Groups Done After 3.11? Part 2: From Religious Mobilization to “Spiritual Care.” Religion Compass, 7(8), 309–325.

Did Aum change everything? What Soka Gakkai before, during, and after the Aum Shinrikyō affair tells us about the persistent "otherness" of new religions in Japan

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 39(1), 51–75.

Sōka Gakkai in Japan

In I. Prohl & J. Nelson (Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions (Vol. 6, pp. 269–307).

In the Wake of the Tsunami: Religious Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake*

CrossCurrents, 61(3), 290–297.

Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism

[Review of Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism, by R. M. Jaffe]. Pacific Affairs, 84(4), 765–766.

SGI-USA no kokujin myūjishantachi = African-American Musicians in SGI-USA

In Shūkyō to gendai ga wakaru hon 2011 (pp. 168–173). Tokyo: Heibonsha.

Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment – Religious Groups Ignore Him

McLaughlin, L. (2011, March 17). Religion Dispatches. http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4399/tokyo_governor_says_tsunami_is_divine_punishment%E2%80%94religious_groups_ignore_him

All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 8(30), 3388. http://japanfocus.org/-Levi-McLaughlin/3388/article.html

Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan - By Nancy K. Stalker

[Review of Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan, by N. K. Stalker]. Religious Studies Review, 36(3), 247–247.

When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane's Ethnography of the Other World - By Wilburn Hansen

[Review of When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane's Ethnography of the Other World, by W. Hansen]. Religious Studies Review, 36(3), 244–245.

Shinkō to ongaku no yūwa o mitomete: watashi no deatta sōka gakkai ōkesutora = Toward a Harmonization of Religious Practice and Music: My Encounter with a Soka Gakkai Orchestra

Sekai, 182–189.

Sōka gakkai no bunka katsudō: Nihon bukkyōkei shinshūkyō ni okeru bunkateki rinen no jun’ō to hensen = Sōka Gakkai’s Cultural Activities: The Adaptation and Transformation of Culture in a Buddhist-based Japanese New Religion

Kokugakuin Daigaku Nihon Bunka Kenkyūshohō, 10–11.

Faith and Practice: Bringing Religion, Music and Beethoven to Life in Soka Gakkai

Social Science Japan Journal, 6(2), 161–179.

Ibunkakan komyunikēshon no arikata = Means of Intercultural Communication

Kokugakuin Daigaku Nihon Bunka Kenkyūshohō, 12.

Zen and Pure Land: An Important Aspect of D.T. Suzuki’s Interpretation of Buddhism

The Eastern Buddhist, XXXIV(2), 117–140.

Long Journey to Japan

Tokyo, Japan: NHK Promotions.

Encyclopedia of Shinto

(English). Tokyo: Kobundo. Kokugakuin University, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics.