Soka Gakkai

2 stories

"The Judicial System Is Sick" — Raphaël Liogier at the CICNS Round Table

English translation of Raphaël Liogier's round-table extract at the CICNS colloquium: the arbitrary versus the authoritarian, unenforceable-yet-enforced parliamentary reports, and his first-hand account of testifying as an expert in a Soka Gakkai discrimination case.

29 October 2011

Religious freedom & law

Raphaël Liogier at the CICNS Colloquium (1/2): Defining "Cult", Defining Laïcité

First half of Raphaël Liogier's talk at the CICNS colloquium, in English: how Western Buddhism became a good religion while Soka Gakkai did not, three definitions of the word cult, and laïcité as a contested neutrality caught in a struggle of classifications.

19 April 2011