Japanese Religions

VOLUME 1: THE CRITICAL DISCOURSE ON JAPANESE RELIGIONS: FIELDS OF ENQUIRT AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES Modern Japan and the Science of Religions - Michael Pye The Establishment of Modern Shintology and the Role of Tanaka Yoshito - Jun'ichi Isomae Buddhism in the History of Japanese Religion: Research History and Research Methods - Fumihiko Sueki Comparative Perspectives on the Emergence of Jind? and Shinto - Mark Teeuwen, Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Religion - State of the Field and Bibliographic Review - Gaynor Sekimori Folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues - Noriko Kawahashi Religious Dimensions of Confucianism: Cosmology and Cultivation - Mary Evelyn Tucker Chronologies, Commonalities and Alternative Status in Japanese New Religious Movements: Defining NRMS outside the Western Cul-De-Sac - Ian Reader Japan's Ignored Cultural Revolution: The Separation of Shinto and Buddhist Divinities In Meiji (shimbutsu bunri) and a Case Study: T?nomine - Allan Grapard The Establishment of Early Modern Buddhism - Satoshi Sonehara The Commercialization of the Sacred: The Structural Evolution of Religious Communities in Japan - Susumu Shimazono "Zen Is Not Buddhism": Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature - Paul Swanson The Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze - Bernard Faure Historiographical Issues in the Studies of the "Christian Century" in Japan - Ikuo Higashibaba New Age and New Spiritual Movements: The role of Spiritual Intellectuals - Susumu Shimazono The Death and Rebirth of Buddhism in Contemporary Japan - George Tanabe, Jr VOLUME 2: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION ORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES The Temple/Juridical Person: Law and the Temple in Japan - Stephen Covell Jinja Honch? and Shrine Shint? policy - Mark Teeuwen Warden + Salaryman + Virtuoso = Priests: Paradigms within Japanese Shinto for Religious Specialists and Institutions - John Nelson The Cult of Mount Atago and the Atago Confraternities - Anne Bouchy POLITICAL AGENCY AND THE STATE The Development of State Ritual in Ancient Japan - Shoji Okada The Emperor's New Robes: Processes of Resignification in Shingon Imperial Rituals - Fabio Rambelli The Imperial Law and the Buddhist Law - Kuroda Toshio Anti-Christian Ideas and National Ideology: Inoue Enryo and Inoue Tetsujiro's Mobilization of Sectarian History in Meiji Japan - Kiri Paramore Protect the Dharma, Protect the Country: Buddhist War Responsibility and Social Ethics - Christopher Ives Nichiren's Activist Heirs: S?ka Gakkai, Rissh? K?seikai and Nipponzan My?h?ji - Jacqueline Stone Constitutional Revision and Japanese Religions - Helen Hardacre Consensus Shattered: Japanese Paradigm Shifts and Moral Panic in the Post-Aum Era - Ian Reader TIME, HISTORY AND MYTH Shortening the Path: Early Tendai Interpretations of the Realization of Buddhahood in This Very Body (Sokushin J?butsu) - Paul Groner On the Use of Prophecy in Mediaeval Japan - Lucia Dolce 1999 and Beyond: The Use of Nostradamus' Prophecies by Japanese Religions - Robert Kisala Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Tezuka Osamu's Hi no Tori (The Phoenix) - Mark MacWilliams VOLUME 3: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION SACRED SPACE Geosophia, Geognosis, and Geopiety: Orders of Significance in Japanese Representations of space - Allan Grapard Mandala, Mandala on the Wall: Variations of Usage in the Shingon School - David Gardiner Mapping the "Divine Country:" Sacred Geography and International Concerns in Mediaeval Japan - Lucia Dolce From Religious Conformity to Innovation: New Ideas of Religious Journey and Holy Places - Nobutaka Inoue The Dead and the Living in the Land of Peace: A Sociology of the Shrine - John Breen LITERARY AND VISUAL NARRATIVES Saigy? and the Buddhist Value of Nature (Part I) - William LaFleur The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination - Caroline Hirasawa Japanese Modern Religious Manga - Matthew Eynon Mapping Sectarian Identity: Onj?ji's Statue of Shinra My?jin - Christine Guth Switching Sites and Identity: The Founder's Statue at the Zen Buddhist Temple K?rin'in - Gregory Levine Buddhist Material Culture, "Indianism," and the Construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in Prewar Japan - Richard Jaffe Art and New Religions: From Deguchi Onisaburo to the Miho Museum - Nancy Stalker GENDERED PRACTICES Trends in the Study of Women and Buddhism - Junko Nishiguchi Jizoku (Priests' Wives) In S?t? Zen Buddhism: An Ambiguous Category - Noriko Kawahashi Strategies of Survival: Women, Abortion, and Popular Religion in Contemporary Japan - Meredith Underwood The Life of Shamanness: Scenes from the Shamanism of Northeastern Japan in Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan - Kunimitsu Kawamura Female Pilgrims and Mt. Fuji: Changing Perspectives on the Exclusion of Women - Fumiko Miyazaki VOLUME 4: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION PERFORMATIVE PRACTICES AND RITUAL DYNAMICS Thinking through Shingon Ritual - Robert Sharf The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amit?bha, "Amida Kei Ai Goma" - Richard Payne Seeking the Pure Land in Heian Japan: The Practices of the Monks of the Nijugo Zammai-e - Robert Rhodes The Akinomine of Haguro Shugendo: A Historical Perspective - Gaynor Sekimori Ritual as an Instrument of Political Resistance in Rural Japan - Scott Schnell The Transformation of Healing in the Japanese New Religions - Helen Hardacre The Worship of Celestial Bodies in Japan: Politics, Rituals and Icons - Lucia Dolce Performing Power: On the Nature of the Japanese Ritual Dance Performance of Yamabushi Kagura - Irit Averbuch Mind and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Religions: Misogi-kyo and Maruyama-kyo - Janine Sawada In Search of a New Interpretation of Ascetic Experience - Massimo Raveri EXORCISING DEATH On Placating the Gods and Pacifying the Populace: The Case of the Gion "Gory?" Cult - Neil McMullin Buy Me a Bride: Death and Exchange in Northern Japanese Bride Doll Marriage - Ellen Schattschneider Shint? Mortuary Rites in Contemporary Japan - Elizabeth Kenney Japanese Christians and the World of the Dead - Mark Mullins Zen in the Art of Funerals: Ritual Salvation in Japanese Buddhism - William Bodiford