Katsuaki Onishi

Present Position

Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Soka University

Field of Research

Sociology of Religion

Academic Societies

The Japan Sociological Society

Japanese Association for Religious Studies

The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society

Education

Toyo University, Ph.D. in Sociology

Main Publications

• A sociological study of Honmon Butsuryuko and Soka Gakkai―religious exclusivism and practicality―(Ronso sha, 2009).
• “Genesis, expansion, and transfiguration of the vitalistic conception of salvation among Nichiren-affiliated New Religions ―Transformations in the Understanding of salvation of Soka Gakkai―,” Toyo University Oriental Study 47 (2010): 228-210.