Levi McLaughlin

Mclaughlin, L., & Sawada, J. A. (2024, February 2). Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION, Vol. 2. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae003

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. Retrieved from https://spfusa.org/publications/with-the-liberal-democratic-party-struggling-komeitos-more-vital-to-japans-ruling-coalition-than-ever-before/?fbclid=IwAR0ic4ym3xazkt2oMkM_8bLqwD2LjHMntWgeCjB3x9zyTo1LDvaVciOlgxo

McLaughlin, L. (2023). 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.

McLaughlin, L. (2023). The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics. Current History, 122(845), 209–216. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.209

McLaughlin, L. (2022). A Grudge Against the Unification Church Motivated the Murder of Japan’s Most Prominent Politician. https://doi.org/10.52698/ruvm3596

Constitutional Buddhism. (2022). In Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/buddhism-and-comparative-constitutional-law/constitutional-buddhism/6F72BFE8DA4AB41969D2AA065562DA43

Klein, A., & McLaughlin, L. (2022). 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.

Klein, A., & McLaughlin, L. (2022). 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). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11324-6_6

McLaughlin, L. (2021). 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. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341641

Mclaughlin, L. (2021). Disasters. In E. Baffelli, A. Castiglioni, & F. Rambelli (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions (pp. 27–33). https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350043763.ch-004

McLaughlin, L., Rots, A. P., Thomas, J. B., & Watanabe, C. (2021). Investigating the Corporate Form in Practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the Public Good. In The Immanent Frame: The Corporate Form. Retrieved from Social Science Research Council website: http://tif.ssrc.org/2021/04/02/investigating-the-corporate-formin-practice/?source=relatedposts&fbclid=IwAR1J2KUaqP7wZ8O5ntEepaxxWxESV_14i1iIsqAFf_JMki6ANfSLZW1XrE.

Klein, A., & McLaughlin, L. (2021). Kōmeitō. In The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (pp. 201–222). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190050993.013.5

McLaughlin, L., & Moodie, D. (2021). Making Persons, Cultures, and Nations. In The Immanent Frame: The Corporate Form. Retrieved from https://tif.ssrc.org/2021/05/07/making-persons-cultures-and-nations/.

McLaughlin, L. (2021). Prayer as Action: Buddhist Priests During COVID-19 in Japan. Dharma World, (Spring), 22–25.

McLaughlin, L. (2021). 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.

Onaga, L., Schieder, C. S., Buhrman, K., Jacoby, J. M., Juraku, K., Slater, D. H., … Ortiz, A. M. (2021, October 2). Sources of Disaster: A Roundtable Discussion on New Epistemic Perspectives in Post-3.11 Japan. EAST ASIAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Vol. 15, pp. 482–496. https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2021.1997015

Baffelli, E., Caple, J., McLaughlin, L., & Schröer, F. (2021). The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World. Numen, 68(5-6), 421–435. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341634

Harris, T., & McLaughlin, L. (2021, April). The Small Pacifist Party That Could Shape Japan’s Future. Foreign Policy. Retrieved from https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/04/komeito-ldp-japan-elections-defense-policy-china/

McLaughlin, L. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on religion in Japan. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315207964-43

McLaughlin, L. (2020, May). Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, Vol. 79, pp. 514–517. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911820000510

McLaughlin, L. (2020). 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). https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845292878-157

McLaughlin, L. (2020). Japanese Religious Responses to COVID-19: A Preliminary Report. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 18(9), 5394. Retrieved from https://apjjf.org/2020/9/McLaughlin.html

McLaughlin, L. (2020). 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.

McLaughlin, L. (2020). 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). https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824884161-007

McLaughlin, L., Rots, A. P., Thomas, J. B., & Watanabe, C. (2020). Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 88(3), 693–725. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfaa041

McLaughlin, L. (2019). Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824877897

McLaughlin, L. (2019). 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). https://doi.org/10.7312/salg18936-021

Klein, A., & McLaughlin, L. (2018). Kōmeitō 2017: New Complications. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76475-7_4

Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution. (2018). In University of Hawaii Press. Retrieved from https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/soka-gakkais-human-revolution-the-rise-of-a-mimetic-nation-in-modern-japan/

McLaughlin, L. (2018). 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. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0014

McLaughlin, L. (2017). 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). https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824858582-021

McLaughlin, L. (2017). Two Self-Sacrificing Bureaucrats. In J. Samuels, J. T. McDaniel, & M. M. Rowe (Eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia (pp. 99–102). https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824858582-034

McLaughlin, L. (2016). 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. https://doi.org/10.18874/ae.75.1.05

McLaughlin, L. (2016). 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.

McLaughlin, L. (2016). Religious Responses to the 2011 Tsunami in Japan. In Oxford Handbooks Online. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935420.013.29

Fountain, P., & McLaughlin, L. (2016). Salvage and salvation: Guest editors’ introduction. Asian Ethnology, 75(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.18874/ae.75.1.01

McLaughlin, L. (2015). Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima. JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES, Vol. 41, pp. 153–158. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2015.0009

McLaughlin, L. (2015). Komeito’s Soka Gakkai Protestors and Supporters: Religious Motivations for Political Activism in Contemporary Japan. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(41), 4386. Retrieved from http://japanfocus.org/-Levi-McLaughlin/4386/article.html

McLaughlin, L. (2014). 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.

Ehrhardt, G., Klein, A., McLaughlin, L., & Reed, S. (2014). 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.

Ehrhardt, G., Klein, A., McLaughlin, L., & Reed, S. R. (Eds.). (2014). Kōmeitō: Religion and Politics in Japan. Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Ehrhardt, G., Klein, A., McLaughlin, L., & Reed, S. (2014). 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.

McLaughlin, L. (2013, July). Reconnecting with Everyday Life: Buddhism through Simple Gestures in the Café de Monk. Dharma World, 40, 22–25.

McLaughlin, L. (2013). Sōka Gakkai. In D. Bromley (Ed.), World Religions & Spirituality Project. Retrieved from https://wrldrels.org/2016/10/08/soka-gakkai/

McLaughlin, L. (2013). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12057

McLaughlin, L. (2013). What Have Religious Groups Done After 3.11? Part 2: From Religious Mobilization to “Spiritual Care.” Religion Compass, 7(8), 309–325. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12056

McLaughlin, L. (2012). 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. https://doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.39.1.2012.51-75

McLaughlin, L. (2012). Sōka Gakkai in Japan. In I. Prohl & J. Nelson (Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions (Vol. 6, pp. 269–307). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004234369_013

McLaughlin, L. (2011). In the Wake of the Tsunami: Religious Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake*. CrossCurrents, 61(3), 290–297. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-3881.2011.00184.x

McLaughlin, L. (2011). 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.

McLaughlin, L. (2011). SGI-USA no kokujin myūjishantachi =  African-American Musicians in SGI-USA. In Shūkyō to gendai ga wakaru hon 2011 (pp. 168–173). Tokyo: Heibonsha.

McLaughlin, L. (2011, March 17). Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment – Religious Groups Ignore Him. Religion Dispatches. Retrieved from http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4399/tokyo_governor_says_tsunami_is_divine_punishment%E2%80%94religious_groups_ignore_him

McLaughlin, L. (2010). All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 8(30), 3388. Retrieved from http://japanfocus.org/-Levi-McLaughlin/3388/article.html

McLaughlin, L. (2010). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01455_9.x

McLaughlin, L. (2010). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01455_3.x

McLaughlin, L. (2004). 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.

McLaughlin, L. (2004). 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.

McLaughlin, L. (2003). Faith and Practice: Bringing Religion, Music and Beethoven to Life in Soka Gakkai. Social Science Japan Journal, 6(2), 161–179. https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/6.2.161

McLaughlin, L. (2003). Ibunkakan komyunikēshon no arikata = Means of Intercultural Communication. Kokugakuin Daigaku Nihon Bunka Kenkyūshohō, 12.

McLaughlin, L., & Takemura, M. (2002). Zen and Pure Land: An Important Aspect of D.T. Suzuki’s Interpretation of Buddhism. The Eastern Buddhist, XXXIV(2), 117–140.

McLaughlin, L. (2001). Long Journey to Japan. Tokyo, Japan: NHK Promotions.

McLaughlin, L. (1994). Encyclopedia of Shinto (English). Tokyo: Kobundo. Kokugakuin University, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics.