Editing Soka Gakkai (section)

== Further reading ==

=== Books ===
* Strand, Clark: ''Waking the Buddha – how the most dynamic and empowering buddhist movement in history is changing our concept of religion''. Strand examines how the Soka Gakkai, based on the insight that "Buddha is life", has evolved a model in which religion serves the needs of its practitioners, rather than the practitioners adhering to dogma and traditions for their own sake.  Middleway Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-9779245-6-1}}
* Editors of ''AERA'': ''Sōkagakkai kaibai'' (創価学会解剖: "Dissecting Sōkagakkai"). [[Asahi Shimbun|Asahi Shimbun-sha]], October 1995. {{ISBN|978-4-02-261286-1}}. ''AERA'' is a weekly investigative news magazine published by one of Japan's leading news organizations; this book attempts to present a dry, fair assessment of Sōkagakkai and Daisaku Ikeda and contains several interviews with Gakkai leaders.
* Shimada, Hiroki: ''Sōkagakkai no jitsuryoku'' (創価学会の実力: "The true extent of Sōkagakkai's power"). Shinchosha, August 2006. {{ISBN|4-02-330372-0}}. Argues that the Sōka Gakkai is not (or is no longer) as powerful as many of its opponents fear, and that it is losing ground internally as all but the most dedicated are turned off by the leadership and fewer members need the organization for social bonding. Also notes that it is becoming more like a civic rather than a religious organization, and that inactive members do not resign because they want to avoid the [[ostracism]] and [[harassment]] that can result.
* Shimada, Hiroki: ''Kōmeitō vs. Sōkagakkai'' (公明党vs.創価学会: "The Kōmeitō and the Sōka Gakkai"). Asahi Shinsho, June 2007. {{ISBN|978-4-02-273153-1}}. Describes the relationship between Kōmeitō and Sōka Gakkai and the development of their history. Touches on the Sōka Gakkai–Nichiren Shōshū split, describing it as the result of a power struggle and financial constraints, as well as on the organized harassment of opponents by Sōka Gakkai members, the organization's use of its media vehicles to vilify opponents, and Ikeda's demand for unquestioning loyalty.
* Tamano, Kazushi: ''Sōkagakkai no Kenkyū'' (創価学会の研究: "Research on the Sōkagakkai"). Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2008. {{ISBN|978-4-06-287965-1}}. This book is an attempt to review scholarly studies of Sōka Gakkai from the 1950s to the 1970s and shifts in perceptions of the organization as journalists took over from scholars. Tamano takes the perspective of a social scientist and describes Sōka Gakkai as a socio-political phenomenon. He is also somewhat critical of some views Shimada expressed in the latter's recent publications.
* Yamada, Naoki: ''Sōkagakkai towa nanika'' (創価学会とは何か: "Explaining Sōkagakkai"). Shinchosha, April 2004. {{ISBN|4-10-467301-3}}
* Yatomi, Shin: ''Buddhism In A New Light''. Examines Soka Gakkai interpretations of Buddhist concepts.  World Tribune Press, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-932911-14-5}}

=== News media (websites) ===
*  [https://web.archive.org/web/20130531070336/http://www.globalbuddhism.org/3/miyata021.htm Koichi Miyata, Soka University, Department of Humanities "Critical Comments on Brian Victoria's "''Engaged Buddhism: A Skeleton in the Closet?"'']