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Listener question: challenges facing the BCA
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
May 4, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
A listener wrote in to ask about the problem of attrition in the Buddhist Churches of America (or Jodo Shinshu more generally) and suggested a few possible doctrinal reasons for declining membership including Shinran’s seemingly anti-institutional and anti-ritualistic understandings of Buddhism. Harry and Scott tackle these questions starting with the assumption that membership is declining.
Released:
May 4, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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