Japanese Journal of Religious Studies: Cumulative list of Essays & Book Reviews

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CUMULATIVE LISTING OF ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS FROM THE

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES




Volumes 1–35 (1974–2008)

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March 1974, 1/1

1. Yanagawa Keiichi
Theological and scientific thinking about festivals: Reflections on the Gion Festival at Aizu Tajima. [5-49]
2. Matsunaga, Daigan and Alicia
The concept of upāya in Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy. [51–72]
3. Mayer, Fanny Hagin
Religious concepts in the Japanese folk tale. [73–101]

June–September
1974, 1/2–3

4. Pye, Michael
Problems of method in the interpretation of religion. [107–23]
5. Kitagawa, Joseph M.
One of many faces of China: Maoism as a quasi-religion.

[125-41]

6.

Burkman, Thomas W.

The Urakami incidents and the struggle for religious

toleration in early Meiji Japan. [143–216]

7.

Hambrick, Charles H.

Tradition and modernity in the new religious movements

of Japan. [217–52]

8.

Reid, David

Review of: Ikado Fujio, Sezoku shakai no shūkyō.

[253–63]

December 1974, 1/4

9.

Cooke, Gerald

Traditional Buddhist sects and modernization in

Japan. [267–330]

10.

Ingram, Paul O.

The symbolism of light and Pure Land Buddhist soteriology.

[331– 45]

11.

Reid, David

Review of: Michael Pye, Zen and Modern Japanese

Religions. [347–49]

March 1975, 2/1

12.

Earhart, H. Byron

The Japanese dictionary of religious studies: Analysis

and assessment. [5–44]

13.
Reid, David
Satistics on religious organizations in Japan,
1947–1972. [45–64]
14.
Sharma, Arvind
“The Future of an Illusion” forty years
later. [65–69]
15.
Ministry of Education
Stview of: Fujii Masao, Gendaijin no shinkō
kōzō: Shūkyō fudō jinkō no kōdō to shisō.
[70–74]
16.
Reid, David
Review of: Richard H. Drummond, Gautama the
Buddha: An Essay in Religious Understanding
; Heinrich Dumoulin, Christianity
Meets Buddhism.
[75–9]

June–September
1975, 2/2–3

17.
Tamaru Noriyoshi
Some reflections on contemporary theories of religion.
[83–101]
18.
Sonoda Minoru
The traditional festival in urban society. [103–36]
19.

Fridell, Wilbur M.

The establishment of Shrine Shinto in Meiji Japan.

[137–68]

20.

Willson, Lawrence

Suzuki, Hartshorne, and Becoming-Now. [169–73]
21.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972. (2). [175–206]

22.

Reid, David

Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata

Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 1: Jōnen no sekai. [207–10]

23.

Yanagawa Keiichi

Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata

Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 2: Girei no kōzō. [211–13]

24.

Morioka Kiyomi

Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata

Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 3: Kindai to no kaiko.

[213–17]

25.

Morioka Kiyomi

Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata

Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 4: Kindai nihon shūkyōshi

shiryō. [217–19]

26.

Abe Yoshiya

Review of: Tokoro Shigemoto, ed., Tennōsei to

nihon shūkyō. [219–23]

27.

Skoglund, Herbert

Review of: Kenneth J. Dale, Circle of Harmony.

[223–27]

 

December 1975, 2/4

28.

Hori Ichirō

Shamanism in Japan. [231–87]
29.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972. (3). [289–316]

30.

Ooms, Herman

Review of: Robert J. Smith, Ancestor Worship

in Contemporary Japan. [317–22]

31.

Iisaka Yoshiaki

Review of: Fernando M. Basabe, Religion in the

Japanese Textbooks, Vol. 1: Ethics and Society. [322–24]

32.

Wray, Harry

Review of: Vincente M. Bonet, Religion in the

Japanese Textbooks, Vol.2: World History. [324–28]

33.

Takagi Kiyoko

Review of: Anzai Shin, Religion in the Japanese

Textbooks, Vol. 3: Japanese History. [328–31]

 

March 1976, 3/1

34.

Davis, Winston

The civil theology of Inoue Tetsujirō. [5–40]
35.

Sadler, A. W.

Between fieldwork and theory: World view and virtuosity

in a monastic community. [41–62]

36.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972. (4). [63–87]

37.

Kasai Minoru

Review of: Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant:

American Civil Religion in Time of Trial. [88–91]

38.

Reid, David

Review of: Morioka Kiyomi, Religion in Changing

Japanese Society. [91–94]

 

June–September

1976, 3/2–3

39.

Munakata Iwao

The ambivalent effects of modernization on the

traditional folk religion of Japan. [99–126]

40.

Akaike Noriaki

Festival and neighborhood association: A case study

of the Kamimachi neighborhood in Chichibu. [127–74]

41.

de Veer, Henrietta

Myth sequences from the Kojiki: A structural

study. [175–214]

42.

Howes, John F.

Challenging comparative biography: A review article.

Review of: Suzuki Norihisa, Uchimura Kanzō to sono jidai: Shiga Shigetaka

to no hikaku. [215–22]

43.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972. (5). [223–46]

44.

Suzuki Norihisa

Review of: Tomikura Mitsuo, Fukawa Kiyoshi, Ōhama

Tetsuya, and Miyata Noboru, Kenshin. [247–49]

45.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Doi Masatoshi, Search for Meaning

Through Interfaith Dialogue. [249–55]

 

December 1976, 3/4

46.

Wilson, Bryan R.

Aspects of secularization in the West. [259–76]
47.

Luckmann, Thomas

A critical rejoinder. [277–79]
48.

Morioka Kiyomi

Comments by a Japanese sociologist. [279–81]
49.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Secularization in a Japanese context. [283–306]
50.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972. (6). [307–30]

51.

Drummond, Richard H.

Review of: Otis Cary, A History of Christianity

in Japan: Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Missions. [331–33]

52.

Davis, Winston

Review of: Robert S. Ellwood, The Eagle and

the Rising Sun: Americans and the New Religions of Japan. [333–34]

53.

Métraux, Daniel

Review of: Senchu Murano, trans., The Lotus

Sutra; Bunnō Katō, Yoshirō Tamura, Kōjitō Miyasaka, trans.,

The Threefold Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, the Sutra of

the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, the Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva

Universal Virtue. [334–36]

 

March 1977, 4/1

54.

Lee, Robert

The individuation of the self in Japanese history.

[5–39]

55.

Takagi Kiyoko

Saigyō: A search for religion. [41–74]
56.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972. (7). [75–95]

57.

McPherson, William

Review of: Arnold J. Toynbee and Ikeda Daisaku,

The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue. [96–99]

 

June–September

1977, 4/2–3

58.

Koepping, Klaus-Peter

Ideologies and new religious movements: The case

of Shinreikyō and its doctrines in comparative perspective. [103–49]

59.

Doerner, David L.

Comparative analysis of life after death in folk

Shinto and Christianity. [151–82]

60.

Morioka Kiyomi

The appearance of “ancestor religion”

in modern Japan: The years of transition from the Meiji to the Taishō periods.

[183–212]

61.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972. (8). [213–39]

62.

Reid, David

Review of: Robert D. Baird, ed., Methodological

Issues in Religious Studies. [240–42]

63.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Review of: Mainichi Shinbunsha, ed., Shūkyō

o gendai ni tou. [243–47]

 

December

1977, 4/4

64.

Andrews, Allan A.

World rejection and Pure Land Buddhism in Japan.

[251–66]

65.

Kodera Takashi, James

The Buddha-nature in Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō.

[267–92]

66.

Ministry of Education

Statistics on religious organizations in Japan,

1947–1972 (9). [293–314]

67.

Fridell, Wilbur M.

Review of: Felicia Gressitt Bock, Engi-shiki:

Procedures of the Engi Era. [315–19]

68.

Reid, David

Review of: Norman Anderson, ed., The World’s

Religions. [319–21]

69.

Reid, David

Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William P. Lebra, eds.,

Japanese Culture and Behavior: Selected Readings. [322]

 

March 1978, 5/1

70.

Yanagawa Keiichi and Abe Yoshiya

Some observations on the sociology of religion

in Japan. [5–27]

71.

Swyngedouw, Jan

A rejoinder. [28–32]
72.

Yanagawa Keiichi and Abe Yoshiya

Reply. [33–36]
73.

Hambrick, Charles H.

The Gukanshō: A religious view of Japanese

history. [37–58]

74.

Huthwait, Motoko Fujishiro

Japanese values: A thematic analysis of contemporary

children’s literature. [59–74]

75.

Ōta Yūzō

Review of: George B. Bikle, The New Jerusalem:

Aspects of Utopianism in the Thought of Kagawa Toyohiko. [75–78]

76.

Skoglund, Herbert

Review of: Tucker N. Callaway, Zen WayJesus

Way. [78–82]

 

June–September

1978, 5/2–3

77.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Japanese religiosity in an age of internationalization.

[87–106]

78.

Abe Yoshiya

From prohibition to toleration: Japanese government

views regarding Christianity, 1854–73. [107–38]

79.

Lishka, Dennis

Zen and the creative process: The “kendō-Zen”

thought of the Rinzai Master Takuan. [139–58]

80.

Rodd, Laurel R.

Nichiren and setsuwa. [159–85]
81.

Fridell, Wilbur M.

Thoughts on man and nature in Japan: A personal

statement. [186–90]

82.

Reid, David

Review of: Barbara A. Babcock, ed., The Reversible

World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society. [191–94]

83.

Reid, David

Review of: Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Patterns

of Behavior. [194–96]

 

December 1978, 5/4

84.

Fujita Tomio

Reflections on the contemporary revival of religion.

[201–24]

85.

Beckford, James A.

Cults and cures. [225–57]
86.

Lai, Whalen

After the reformation: Post-Kamakura Buddhism.

[258–84]

87.

Cobb, John B., Jr.

Christianity and Eastern wisdom. [285–98]
88.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Review of: Shūkyōshakaigaku Kenkyūkai, ed., Gendai

shūkyō e no shikaku. [299–304]

89.

Reid, David

Review of: Sugimoto Masayoshi and David L. Swain,

Science and Culture in Traditional Japan: A.D. 600–1854. [304–8]

March–June

1979, 6/1–2

Proceedings of the 1978 Tokyo Meeting of

the Conférence Internationale de Sociologie Religieuse

90.

Mol, Hans

The identity model of religion: How it compares

with nine other theories of religion and how it might apply to Japan. [11–38]

91.

Dobbelaere, Karel

Professionalization and secularization in the Belgian

Catholic pillar. [39–64]

92.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Reflections on the secularization thesis in the

sociology of religion in Japan. [65–88]

93.

Tamaru Noriyoshi

The problem of secularization: A preliminary analysis.

[89–114]

94.

Luckmann, Thomas

The structural conditions of religious consciousness

in modern societies. [121–37]

95.

Tsushima Michihito, Nishiyama Shigeru, Shimazono Susumu, and Shiramizu Hiroko

The vitalistic conception of salvation in Japanese

new religions: An aspect of modern religious consciousness. [139–61]

96.

Inoue Nobutaka, Kōmoto Mitsugi, Nakamaki Hirochika, Shioya Masanori, Uno Masato

and Yamazaki Yoshie

A festival with anonymous kami: The Kobe Matsuri.

[163–85]

97.

Wilson, Bryan R.

The new religions: Some preliminary considerations.

[193–216]

98.

Sanada Takaaki

After prophecy fails: A reappraisal of a Japanese

case. [217–37]

99.

Morioka Kiyomi

The institutionalization of a new religious movement.

[239–80]

100.

Martin, David A.

The cultural politics of established churches.

[287–301]

101.

Ueda Kenji

Contemporary social change and Shinto tradition.

[303–27]

102.

Matsunami Yoshihiro

Conflict within the development of Buddhism. [329–45]
103.

Reid, David

Secularization theory and Japanese Christianity:

The case of the Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan. [347–78]

 

September 1979,

6/3

104.

Shimazono Susumu

The living kami idea in the new religions of Japan.

[389–412]

105.

Shiramizu Hiroko

Organizational mediums: A case study of Shinnyo-en.

[413–44]

106.

Hardacre, Helen

Sex-role norms and values in Reiyūkai. [445–60]
 

December 1979, 6/4

107.

Turner, Victor

Frame, flow and reflection: Ritual and drama as

public liminality. [465–99]

108.

Yanagawa Keiichi and Reid, David

Between unity and separation: Religion and politics

in Japan, 1965–1977. [500–521]

109.

Mori Kōichi

The Emperor of Japan: A historical study in religious

symbolism. [522–65]

110.

Reid, David

Review of: Delmer M. Brown and Ishida Ichirō,

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative

History of Japan Written in 1219. [566–69]

111.

Suleski, Ronald

Review of: Kokubo Kazuo, Den shingon’in

mandara: Sekai bunmei no shukuzu. [569–71]

 

March 1980, 7/1

112.

Eger, Max

“Modernization” and “secularization”

in Japan: A polemical essay. [7–24]

113.

Pye, Michael

Comparative hermeneutics: A brief statement. [25–33]
114.

Solomon, Ted J.

Sōka Gakkai on the alleged compatibility between

Nichiren Buddhism and modern science. [34–54]

115.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Why did Ikeda quit? [55–61]
116.

Shimazono Susumu

Review of: Suzuki Norihisa, Meiji shūkyō shichō

no kenkyū: Shūkyōgaku kotohajime. [62–64]

117.

Reid, David

Review of: Murakami Shigeyoshi, Japanese Religion

in the Modern Century. [65–68]

118.

Inoue Nobutaka

Review of: Shūkyō Shakaigaku Kenkyūkai, ed.,

Shūkyō no imi sekai. [69–73]

119.

Kōmoto Mitsugi

Review of: Yanagawa Keiichi and Anzai Shin, eds.,

Shūkyō to shakai hendō. [73–78]

June–September

1980, 7/2–3

Focus on Scholars: Yanagita, Furuno, Aruga, Morioka, Ikado

A New Religion: Gedatsukai

120.

Mori Kōichi

Yanagita Kunio: An interpretive study. [83–115]
121.

Koga Kazunori

Furuno Kiyoto: The romance of religion and the

pursuit of science. [116–43]

122.

Hirano Toshimasa

Aruga Kizaemon: The household, the ancestors, and

the tutelary deities. [144–66]

123.

Nishiyama Shigeru

Morioka Kiyomi: From a structural to a life-cycle

theory of religious organization. [167–207]

124.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Ikado Fujio: A Japanese cosmopolitan. [208–26]
125.

Earhart, H. Byron

Gedatsukai: One life history and its significance

for interpreting Japanese new religions. [227–57]

 

December 1980, 7/4

126.

Foard, James H.

In search of a lost reformation: A reconsideration

of Kamakura Buddhism. [261–91]

127.

Morioka Kiyomi and Nishiyama Shigeru

Acceptance of a new religion and subsequent changes

in religious consciousness. [292–317]

128.

Harrington, Ann M.

The kakure kirishitan and their place in

Japan’s religious tradition. [318–36]

129.

Parks, Yōko Yamamoto

Nichiren Shōshū Academy in America: Changes during

the 1970s. [337–55]

130.

Nakajima Hideo

Review of: Johannes Laube, Oyagami: Die heutige

Gottesvorstellung der Tenrikyō. [356–58]

 

March–June

1981, 8/1–2

131.

Reid, David

Remembering the dead: Change in Protestant Christian

tradition through contact with Japanese cultural tradition. [9–33]

132.

Shinohara Kōichi

Buddhism and the problem of modernity in East Asia:

Some exploratory comments based on the example of Takayama Chogyū. [35–49]

133.

Akaike Noriaki

The Ontake cult associations and local society:

The case of the Owari-Mikawa region in Central Japan. [51–82]

134.

Kelsey, W. Michael

Salvation of the snake, the snake of salvation:

Buddhist-Shinto conflict and resolution. [83–113]

 

September–December

1981, 8/3–4

135.

Brooks, Anne Page

Mizuko kuyō and Japanese Buddhism. [119–47]
136.

Satō Noriaki

The initiation of the religious specialists Kamisan:

A few observations. [149–86]

137.

Nakamura Kyōko

Revelatory experience in the female life cycle:

A biographical study of women religionists in Modern Japan. [187–205]

138.

Shimazono Susumu

Religious influences on Japan’s modernization.

[207–23]

139.

Shinohara Kōichi

Religion and political order in Nichiren’s

Buddhism. [225–35]

140.

Augustine, Morris J.

The sociology of knowledge and Buddhist-Christian

forms of faith, practice and knowledge. [237–60]

141.

Gannon, Thomas M.

Sociology of religion in the U.S.: The state of

the art. [261–73]

142.

Franck, Frederick

Review article: Religion and art. A review of Thomas

R. Martland, Religion as Art: An Interpretation. [275–81]

143.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: William Johnston, The Inner Eye of

Love: Mysticism and Religion. [283–85]

 

March

1982, 9/1

Bryan Wilson in Japan

144.

Wilson, Bryan

The academic position of the sociology of religion

in modern science. [9–40]

145.

Morioka Kiyomi

Methodological problems in the sociology of religion

in Japan. [41–52]

146.

Akaike Noriaki

Sympathetic understanding and objective observation.

[53–64]

147.

Araki Michio

Toward an integrated understanding of religion

and society: Hidden premises in the scientific apparatus of the study of religion.

[65–76]

148.

Shimazono Susumu

The study of religion and the tradition of pluralism.

[77–88]

149.

Wilson, Bryan

A riposte. [89–98]

June–September

1982, 9/2–3

Religion and Literature in Japan

Guest Editor: W. Michael Kelsey

150.

Kelsey, W. Michael

Religion and literature in Japan: Some introductory

remarks. [103–14]

151.

Kurosawa Kōzō

Myths and tale literature. [115–25]
152.

Fujii Sadakazu

The relationship between the romance and religious

observances: Genji monogatari as myth. [127–46]

153.

Mori Masato

Konjaku monogatari-shū: Supernatural creatures

and order. [147–70]

154.

Morrell, Robert E.

Kamakura accounts of Myōe Shōnin as popular religious

hero. [171–98]

155.

Geddes, Ward

The Buddhist monk in the Jikkinshō. [199–212]
156.

Minobe Shigekatsu

The world view of Genpei jōsuiki. [213–33]
157.

McCarthy, Paul

The Madonna and the harlot: Images of woman in

Tanizaki. [235–55]

 

December 1982, 9/4

158.

Tyler, Royall

A critique of "absolute phenomenalism."

[261–83]

159.

Yanagawa Keiichi

From a science of “behavior” to a science

of “understanding.” [285–94]

160.

Sonoda Minoru

The study of religion as a human science. [295–311]
161.

Reid, David

Review of: H. Byron Earhart, Japanese Religion:

Unity and Diversity. [313–15]

162.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Minoru Kiyota, Gedatsukai: Its Theory

and Practice. [316–18]

163.

Knitter, Paul F.

Review of: Hans Waldenfels, Absolute Nothingness:

Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. [318–20]

164.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Chai-Shin Yu, Early Buddhism and

Christianity: A Comparative Study of the Founders’ Authority, the Community,

and the Discipline. [320–22]

165.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Review of: K. L. Seshagiri Rao, Mahatma Gandhi

and Comparative Religion. [322–23]

 

March 1983, 10/1

166.

Morrell, Robert E.

Jōkei and the Kōfukuji petition. [6–38]
167.

Fujii Masao

Maintenance and change in Japanese traditional

funerals and death-related behavior. [39–64]

168.

Nakamaki Hirochika

The “separate” coexistence of kami and

hotoke: A look at Yorishiro. [65–86]

169.

Bocking, Brian

Comparative studies of Buddhism and Christianity.

[87–110]

 

June–September

1983, 10/2–3

Women and Religion in Japan

Guest Editor: Nakamura Kyōko

170.

Nakamura Kyōko

Women and religion in Japan: Introductory remarks.

[115–21]

171.

Takagi Kiyoko

Religion in the life of Higuchi Ichiyō. [123–47]
172.

Hardacre, Helen

The cave and the womb world. [149–76]
173.

Uchino Kumiko

The status elevation process of Sōtō sect nuns

in modern Japan. [177–94]

174.

Kaneko Sachiko and Morrell, Robert E.

Sanctuary: Kamakura’s Tōkeiji convent. [195–228]
175.

Takemi Momoko

“Menstruation Sutra” belief in Japan.

[229–46]

176.

Igeta Midori

The image of woman in sermons: Anju in “Sanshō

Dayū.” [247–72]

 

December 1983, 10/4

177.

Vance, Timothy J.

The etymology of kami. [277–88]
178.

Yanagawa Keiichi and Abe Yoshiya

Cross-cultural implications of a behavioral response.

[289–307]

179.

Reid, David

Reflections: A response to professors Yanagawa

and Abe. [309–15]

180.

Tekippe, Terry J.

Review of: Takeuchi Yoshinori, The Heart of

Buddhism: In Search of the Timeless Spirit of Primitive Buddhism. [317–22]

181.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: James M. Phillips, From the Rising

of the Sun: Christians and Society in Contemporary Japan. [323–29]

182.

Watanabe Manabu

Review of: Kawai Hayao, Mukashibanashi to nihonjin

no kokoro [Folktales and the Japanese psyche]. [329–32]

183.

Rochelle, Jay C.

Review of: Frederick Franck, The Supreme Koan.

[332–37]

 

March 1984, 11/1

184.

Lai, Whalen

Seno’o Girō and the dilemma of modern Buddhism:

Leftist prophet of the Lotus Sutra. [7–42]

185.

Meshcheryakov, A. N.

The meaning of “the beginning” and “the

end” in Shinto and early Japanese Buddhism. [43–56]

186.

Kōnoshi Takamitsu

The land of Yomi: On the mythical world of the

Kojiki. [57–76]

187.

Hase Shōtō

Knowledge and transcendence: Modern idealist philosophy

and Yogācāra Buddhism (Part 1). [77–93]

188.

Reid, David

Review of: H. Byron Earhart, The New Religions

of Japan: A Bibliography of Western-language Materials, 2nd edition.

[95–96]

189.

Ishii Kenji

Review of: Richard K. Fenn, Liturgies and Trials:

The Secularization of Religious Language. [97–100]

 

June–September

1984, 11/2–3

Religious Ideas in Japan

Guest Editor: Jan Van Bragt

190.

Van Bragt, Jan

Religious ideas in Japan: Introductory remarks.

[104–13]

191.

Kitagawa, Joseph M.

Paradigm change in Japanese Buddhism. [115–42]
192.

Dumoulin, Heinrich

The person in Buddhism: Religious and artistic

aspects. [143–67]

193.

Hase Shōtō

Knowledge and transcendence: Modern idealist philosophy

and Yogācāra Buddhism (Part 2). [169–94]

194.

Morrell, Robert E.

Shingon’s Kakukai on the immanence of the

Pure Land. [195–220]

195.

Soga Ryōjin

The core of Shinshū. [221–42]
196.

Tamura Yoshirō

Critique of Original Awakening thought in Shōshin

and Dōgen. [243–66]

197.

Ariga Tetsutarō

Being and Hāyāh. [267–88]
 

December 1984, 11/4

198.

Ching, Julia

The idea of God in Nakae Tōju. [293–311]
199.

Marra, Michele

Semi-recluses (tonseisha) and impermanence

(mujō): Kamo no Chōmei and Urabe Kenkō. [313–50]

200.

Siddharthan, N. S.

The non-neoclassical paradigm: Buddhism and economic

development. [351–69]

201.

Knecht, Peter

Review of: Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim Janelli,

Ancestor Worship and Korean Society. [371–73]

 

March 1985, 12/1

202.

Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi

What’s in a name? Reflections on God, gods,

and the divine. [3–16]

203.

Nishiyama Shigeru

Indigenization and transformation of Christianity

in a Japanese rural community. [17–61]

204.

Odin, Steve

The penumbral shadow: A Whiteheadian perspective

on the yūgen style of art and literature in Japanese aesthetics.

[63–90]

205.

Childs, Margaret H.

Kyōgen-kigo: Love stories as Buddhist sermons.

[91–104]

 

June–September

1985, 12/2–3

A Tribute to Heinrich Dumoulin

Guest Editor: James W. Heisig

206.

Heisig, James W.

Editor’s introduction. [109–17]
207.

Nakamura Hajime

Intuitive awareness: Issues in early mysticism.

[119–40]

208.

Maraldo, John C.

Is there historical consciousness in Ch’an?

[141–72]

209.

Lai, Whalen

Ma-tsu Tao-i and the unfolding of southern Zen.

[173–92]

210.

Nishimura Eshin

Transcending the Buddhas and patriarchs: Awareness

and transcendence in Zen. [193–205]

211.

Kiyota Minoru

Tathāgatagarbha thought: A basis of Buddhist devotionalism

in East Asia. [207–31]

212.

Habito, Ruben L. F.

On dharmakāya as ultimate reality: Prolegomenon

for a Buddhist-Christian dialogue. [233–52]

213.

Ching, Julia

No other name? [253–62]
214.

Watanabe Manabu

The works of Heinrich Dumoulin: A select bibliography.

[263–71]

 

December 1985, 12/4

215.

Stefansson, Halldor

Earth-gods in Morimachi. [277–98]
216.

Nakamura Hajime

Ch’an and mysticism in later times. [299–317]
217.

Marra, Michele

The conquest of mappō: Jien and Kitabatake

Chikafusa. [319–41]

218.

Thurston, Bonnie Bowman

The conquered Self: Emptiness and God in a Buddhist-Christian

dialogue. [343–53]

219.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Nagao Gadjin, Bukkyō no genryū: Indo.

[355–58]

220.

Lai, Whalen

Review of: Helen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary

Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan. [358–62]

221.

O’Leary, Joseph S. and Keenan, John P.

Review of: Robert Magliola, Derrida on the Mend.

[362–69]

 
 

March 1986, 13/1

222.

Stoesz, Willis

The universal attitude of Konkō Daijin. [3–29]
223.

Métraux, Daniel A.

The Sōka Gakkai’s search for the realization

of the world of Risshō ankokuron. [31–61]

224.

Nakamura Hajime

The goal of meditation. [63–79]
225.

Jaffe, Paul D.

Rising from the Lotus: Two Bodhisattvas from

the Lotus Sutra as a psychodynamic paradigm for Nichiren. [81–105]

226.

La Fleur, William R.

Review of: Herman Ooms, Tokugawa Ideology: Early

Constructs, 1570–1680. [107–15]

June–September

1986, 13/2–3

Religion and Society in Contemporary Japan:

A Tribute to Yanagawa Keiichi

Guest Editors: Akaike Noriaki and Jan Swyngedouw

227.

Akaike Noriaki and Swyngedouw, Jan

Editors’ introduction.

[119–25]

228.

Dobbelaere, Karel

Civil religion and the integration of society:

A theoretical reflection and an application. [127–46]

229.

Reid, David

Reflections on the path to understanding in religious

studies. [147–55]

230.

Shimazono Susumu

Conversion stories and their popularization in

Japan’s new religions. [157–75]

231.

Nakamaki Hirochika

Continuity and change: Funeral customs in modern

Japan. [177–92]

232.

Ishii Kenji

The secularization of religion in the city. [193–209]
233.

Shimada Hiromi

Yanagawa Keiichi and community religion. [211–26]
234.

Abe Yoshiya

Yanagawa Keiichi as an educator. [227–40]
 

December 1986, 13/4

235.

Ooms, Herman

“Primeval Chaos”

and “Mental Void” in Early Tokugawa ideology: Fujiwara Seika, Suzuki

Shōsan, and Yamazaki Ansai. [245–60]

236.

Lewis, David C.

Religious rites in a Japanese factory. [261–75]
237.

King, Winston L.

An interpretation of the Anjin ketsujōshō. [277–98]
238.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Dennis Gira, Le sens de la conversion

dans l’enseignement de Shinran. [299–304]

239.

Keenan, John P.

Review of: Robert E. Morrell, Sand and Pebbles

(Shasekishū): The Tales of Mujū Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura

Buddhism. [304–7]

240.

Reid, David

Review of: Richard Wentz, The Contemplation

of Otherness: The Critical Vision of Religion. [308–9]


March 1987, 14/1

241.

Wentz, Richard E.

The prospective eye of interreligious dialogue.

[3–17]

242.

Tyler, Royall

Buddhism in Noh. [19–52]
243.

Childs, Margaret H.

The influence of the Buddhist practice of sange

on literary form: Revelatory tales. [53–66]

 

June–September

1987, 14/2–3

Tendai Buddhism in Japan

Edited by Paul L. Swanson

244.

Swanson, Paul L.

Editor’s introduction, with bibliography.

[71–81]

245.

Lai, Whalen

Why the Lotus Sūtra? On the historic significance

of Tendai. [83–99]

246.

Hazama Jikō

The characteristics of Japanese Tendai. [101–12]
247.

Shirato Waka

Inherent enlightenment (hongaku shisō) and

Saichō’s acceptance of the bodhisattva precepts. [113–27]

248.

Groner, Paul

Annen, Tankei, Henjō, and monastic discipline in

the Tendai School: The background of the Futsū jubosatsukai kōshaku. [129–59]

249.

McMullin, Neil

The Enryaku-ji and the Gion Shrine-Temple complex

in the Mid-Heian Period. [161–84]

250.

Rhodes, Robert F.

The kaihōgyō practice of Mt. Hiei. [185–202]
251.

Tamura Yoshirō

Japanese culture and the Tendai concept of original

enlightenment. [203–10]

252.

Grapard, Allan G.

Linguistic cubism: A singularity of pluralism in

the Sannō cult. [211–34]

253.

Saso, Michael

Kuden: The oral hermeneutics of Tendai Tantric

Buddhism. [235–46]

254.

Chappell, David W.

Is Tendai Buddhism relevant to the modern world?

[247–66]

255.

Yamano, Toshirō

Review of: Ikeda Rosan, Makashikan kenkyū josetsu.

[267–70]

256.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Hirai Shun’ei, Hokke mongu no

seiritsu ni kansuru kenkyū. [271–73]

 

December 1987, 14/4

257.

Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi

Some reflections on two-way traffic, or incarnation/Avatāra

and apotheosis. [279–85]

258.

Reader, Ian

Back to the future: Images of nostalgia and renewal

in a Japanese religious context. [287–303]

259.

Hoshino Eiki and Takeda Dōshō

Indebtedness and comfort: The undercurrents of

mizuko kuyō in contemporary Japan. [305–20]

260.

Mullins, Mark

The life-cycle of ethnic churches in sociological

perspective. [321–34]

261.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and Steven C. Rockefeller,

eds., The Christ and the Bodhisattva. [335–37]

262.

Odin, Steve

Review of: Tanabe Hajime, Philosophy as Metanoetics.

[337–43]

 

March 1988, 15/1

263.

Smith, Bardwell

Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan: Mizuko

kuyō and the confrontation with death. [3–24]

264.

Marra, Michele

The development of mappō thought in Japan

(I). [25–54]

265.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn

Religious aspects of Japanese Neo-Confucianism:

The thought of Nakae Tōju and Kaibara Ekken. [55–69]

266.

Odin, Steve

Review of: Joseph M. Kitagawa, On Understanding

Japanese Religion. [71–74]

267.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Takamichi Takahatake, Young Man Shinran:

A Reappraisal of Shinran’s Life. [75–76]

268.

Blum, Mark

Review of: Yoshifumi Ueda, ed., The True Teaching,

Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way. A Translation of Shinran’s

Kyōgyōshinshō. [77–80]

269.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Mindless:

Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem. [81–83]

 

June–September

1988, 15/2–3

Folk Religion and Religious Organizations in Asia

Guest Editors: Hayashi Makoto and Yoshihara Kazuo

270.

Hayashi Makoto and Yoshihara Kazuo

Editors’ introduction. [89–101]
271.

Kimura Noritsugu

Folk religion in the Ise-Shima region: The takemairi

custom at Mount Asama. [103–19]

272.

Kawakami Mitsuyo

The view of spirits as seen in the bon observances

of the Shima region. [121–30]

273.

Yahata Takatsune

Shinmō (spirits of the recently deceased)

and community: Bon observances in a Japanese village. [131–36]

274.

Sakurai Haruo

The symbolism of the shishi performance

as a community ritual: The Okashira Shinji in Ise. [137–53]

275.

Iida Takafumi

Folk religion among the Koreans in Japan: The shamanism

of the “Korean Temples.” [155–82]

276.

Shima Iwao

The Vithobā faith of Mahārāsastra: The Vithobā

Temple of Pandharpūr and its mythological structure. [183–97]

277.

Yoshihara Kazuo

Dejiao: A Chinese religion in Southeast Asia. [199–221]
278.

Tajima Tada’atsu

Review of: Nakamaki Hirochika, ed., Kamigami

no sōkoku: Bunka sesshoku to dochakushugi. [223–26]

279.

Yamanaka Hiroshi

Review of: Ronald C. Finucane, Miracles and

Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England. [226–28]

December 1988, 15/4

280.

Reader, Ian

The rise of a Japanese “New New Religion”:

Themes in the development of Agonshū. [235–61]

281.

Young, Richard Fox

From gokyō-dōgen to bankyō-dōkon:

A study in the self-universalization of Ōmoto. [263–86]

282.

Marra, Michele

The development of mappō thought in Japan

(II). [287–305]

283.

Tyler, Susan

Review of: Willa J. Tanabe, Paintings of the

Lotus Sutra. [307–11]

284.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Graham Parkes, ed., Heidegger and

Asian Thought. [311–13]

 

March 1989, 16/1

285.

McMullin, Neil

Historical and historiographical issues in the

study of pre-modern Japanese religions. [3–40]

286.

Durfee, Richard E., Jr.

Portrait of an unknowingly ordinary man: Endō Shūsaku,

Christianity and Japanese historical consciousness. [41–62]

287.

Goodwin, Janet R.

Shooing the dead to paradise. [63–80]
288.

Tyler, Royall

Review of: Dennis Hirota, trans, No Abode: The

Record of Ippen. [81–82]

289.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Paul O. Ingram, The Modern Buddhist-Christian

Dialogue: Two Universalistic Religions in Transformation. [82–84]

290.

Keenan, John P.

Review of: Sallie B. King, trans. with annotations,

Passionate Journey: The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myōdō. [84–85]

291.

Knecht, Peter

Review of: Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner

eds., The Anthropology of Experience. [86–88]

June–September

1989, 16/2–3

Shugendo and Mountain Religion in Japan

Edited by Royall Tyler and Paul L. Swanson

292.

Tyler, Royall and Swanson, Paul L.

Editors’ introduction. [93–100]
293.

Miyake Hitoshi

Religious rituals in Shugendo: A summary. [101–16]
294.

Gorai Shigeru

Shugendo lore. [117–42]
295.

Tyler, Royall

Kōfuku-ji and Shugendo. [143–80]
296.

Wakamori Tarō

The hashira-matsu and Shugendo. [181–94]
297.

Sawa Ryūken

Shugendo art. [195–204]
298.

Earhart, H. Byron

Mount Fuji and Shugendo. [205–26]
299.

Tyler, Susan

Honji suijaku faith. [227–50]
300.

Rhodes, Robert

Review of: John Stevens, The Marathon Monks

of Mount Hiei. [251–53]

 

December 1989, 16/4

301.

Reid, David

Japanese Christians and the ancestors. [259–83]
302.

Keenan, John P.

Spontaneity in Western martial arts: A Yogācāra

critique of mushin (no-mind). [285–98]

303.

Reader, Ian

Review article: Recent Japanese publications on

religion. A review of Shūkyō Shakaigaku no Kai, Ikoma no kamigami: Gendai

toshi no minzoku shūkyō; Numata Kenya, Gendai Nihon no shin shūkyō;

Ōmura Eishō and Nishiyama Shigeru, Gendaijin no shūkyō; Miyake

Hitoshi, Kōmoto Mitsugi, and Nishiyama Shigeru, Shūkyō-Riidingsu: Nihon

no shakaigaku; Nishijima Takeo, Shinshūkyō no kamigami. [299–315]

304.

Reid, David

Review of: Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William P.

Lebra eds., Japanese Culture and Behavior: Selected Readings. [317–19]

March

1990, 17/1

305.

Rogers, Minor L and Ann T.

The Honganji: Guardian of the state (1868–1945).

[3–28]

306.

Young, Richard Fox

Magic and morality in modern Japanese exorcistic

technologies: A study of Mahikari. [29–49]

307.

Heisig, James W.

The religious philosophy of the Kyoto School: An

overview. [51–81]

308.

Mullins, Mark

Review of: Byron H. Earhart, Gedatsu-kai

and Religion in Contemporary Japan: Returning to the Center. [83–85]

309.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: James C. Dobbins, Jōdo Shinshū: Shin

Buddhism in Medieval Japan. [85-89]

310.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Hakamaya Noriaki, Hongaku shisō hihan.

[89–91]

311.

Minnick, Wendell L.

Review of: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, The Monkey

as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual. [92–94]

 

June–September

1990, 17/2–3

The Emperor System and Religion in Japan

Guest Editor: Peter Nosco

312.

Nosco, Peter

Editor’s introduction. [99–103]
313.

Sasaki Kōkan

Priest, shaman, king. [105–28]
314.

Kitagawa, Joseph M.

Some reflections on Japanese religion and its relationship

to the imperial system. [129–78]

315.

Blacker, Carmen

The shinza or God-seat in the Daijōsai:

Throne, bed, or incubation couch? [179–97]

316.

Ellwood, Robert S.

The Sujin religious revolution. [199–217]
317.

Goodwin, Janet R.

The Buddhist monarch: Go-Shirakawa and the rebuilding

of Tōdai-ji. [219–42]

318.

Kamikawa Michio

Accession rituals and Buddhism in medieval Japan.

[243–80]

319.

Miyazaki Fumiko

The formation of emperor worship in the New Religions:

The case of Fujidō. [281–314]

320.

Kurihara Akira

The emperor system as Japanese national religion:

The emperor system module in everyday consciousness. [315–40]

321.

Gardner, Richard

Review of: Gary L Ebersole, Ritual Poetry and

the Politics of Death in Early Japan. [341–45]

322.

Swyngedouw, Jan

In memoriam: Yanagawa Keiichi (1926-1990). [347–48]
 

December 1990, 17/4

323.

Mullins, Mark R.

Japanese Pentacostalism and the world of the dead:

A study of cultural adaptation in Iesu no Mitama Kyōkai. [353–74]

324.

Hylkema-Vos, Naomi

Katō Genchi: A neglected pioneer in comparative

religion. [375–95]

325.

McFarlane, Stewart

Mushin, morals, and martial arts: A discussion

of Keenan’s Yogācāra critique. [397–420]

326.

Keenan, John P.

The mystique of martial arts: A response to Professor

McFarlane. [421–32]

327.

Reader, Ian

Review of: Miyake Hitoshi, Shūkyō minzokugaku.

[433–38]

328.

Gira, Dennis

Review of: Ueda Yoshifumi and Dennis Hirota, Shinran:

An Introduction to His Thought. [439–42]

329.

Tanabe, George J.

Review of: Edward Kamens, The Three Jewels:

A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori’s Sanbōe. [442–43]

March 1991, 18/1

330.

Grapard, Allan G.

Visions of excess and excesses of vision: Women

and transgression in Japanese myth. [3–22]

331.

Reader, Ian

Letters to the gods: The form and meaning of ema.

[23–50]

332.

Naylor, Christina

Nichiren, imperialism, and the peace movement.

[51–78]

333.

Gardner, Richard

Review of: Lawrence E. Sullivan, Icanchu’s

Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions. [79–82]

334.

Rhodes, Robert F.

Review of: George J. Tanabe and Willa Jane Tanabe,

eds., The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture. [82–85]

335.

Smits, Gregory J.

Review of: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Moral and Spiritual

Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara

Ekken. [85–88]

336.

Gössman, Elizabeth

Review of: Ulrike Wöhr, Frauen and Neue Religionen:

Die Religionsgründerinnen Nakayama Miki und Deguchi Nao. [88–90]

 

June–September 1991, 18/2–3

Japanese New Relgions Abroad

Guest Editors: Mark R. Mullins and Richard Fox Young

337.

Mullins, Mark R. and Young, Richard F.

Editors’ introduction. [95–103]
338.

Shimazono Susumu

The expansion of Japan’s New Religions into

foreign cultures. [105–32]

339.

Inoue Nobutaka

The dilemma of Japanese-American society: A case

study of Konkōkyō in North America. [133–50]

340.

Tisdall-Yamada, Yutaka

The symbolic image of ancestors in the Church of

World Messianity. [151–64]

341.

Richards, Elizabeth

The development of Sekai Kyūseikyō in Thailand.

[165–88]

342.

Ōkubo Masayuki

The acceptance of Nichiren Shōshū Sōka Gakkai in

Mexico. [189–211]

343.

Nakamaki Hirochika

The indigenization and multinationalization of

Japanese religion: Perfect Liberty Kyōdan in Brazil. [213–42]

344.

Hurbon, Laënnec

Mahikari in the Caribbean. [243–64]
345.

Cornille, Catherine

The phoenix files west: The dynamics of the inculturation

of Mahikari in western Europe. [265–85]

346.

Earhart, H. Byron

Review of: Inoue Nobutaka, Kōmoto Mitsugi, Tsushima

Michihito, Nakamaki Hirochika, and Nishiyama Shigeru, eds., Shinshūkyō

jiten. [287–89]

 

December 1991, 18/4

347.

Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi

Mizuko kuyō: Notulae on the most important

“New Religion” of Japan. [295–354]

348.

McFarlane, Stewart

The mystique of martial arts: A reply to Professor

Keenan’s response. [355–68]

349.

Anderson, Richard W.

What constitutes religious activity? (I). [369–72]
350.

Reader, Ian

What constitutes religious activity? (II). [373–76]
351.

Jorgenson, John

Review of: Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism:

A History. [377–400]

352.

Hubbard, Jamie

Review article: A report on newly discovered Buddhist

texts at Nanatsu-dera. A review of Ochiai Toshinori, The Manuscripts of

Nanatsu-dera: A Recently Discovered Treasure-House in Downtown Nagoya.

[401–6]

353.

Tyler, Royall

Review of: Edward Kamens, The Buddhist Poetry

of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashū. [407–9]

354.

Fox, Stephen S.

Review of: Nishitani Keiji, The Self-Overcoming

of Nihilism. [409–13]

355.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Jean-Noël Robert, Les Doctrines de

l’école Japanaise Tendaï au début du IXe siècle: Gishin et

le Hokke-shū gishū. [413–16]

 

March 1992, 19/1

356.

Hubbard, Jamie

Premodern, modern, and postmodern: Doctrine and

the study of Japanese religion. [3–27]

357.

McMullin, Neil

Which doctrine? Whose “religion”? A rejoinder.

[29–39]

358.

McVeigh, Brian

The vitalistic conception of salvation as expressed

in Sūkyō Mahikari. [41–68]

359.

Mayer, Adrian C.

On the gender of shrines and the Daijōsai.

[69–80]

360.

Reader, Ian

Review of: Shinno Toshikazu, Nihon yugyō shūkyōron.

[81–84]

361.

Wallace, John R.

Review of: Michele Marra, The Aesthetics of

Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature. [85–90]

362.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Graham Parkes, ed., Nietzsche and

Asian Thought. [90–94]

363.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: John P. Keenan, The Meaning of Christ:

A Mahāyāna Theology. [94–100]

364.

Drummond, Richard Henry

Review of: Kumazawa Yoshinobu and David L. Swain,

comps. and eds., Christianity in Japan, 1971–90. [100–101]

365.

Fitzgerald, Timothy

Review of: Akizuki Ryōmin, New Mahāyāna: Buddhism

for a Post-Modern World. [102–4]

366.

Kohn, Livia

Review of: Bartholomew P. M. Tsui, Taoist Tradition

and Change:  The Story of the Complete Perfection Sect in Hong Kong.

[104–6]

367.

Duquenne, Robert

In memoriam: Anna Seidel (1939–1991). [107–10]
 

June–September 1992, 19/2–3

Archaeological Approaches to Ritual and Religion in Japan

Guest Editors: Mark J. Hudson and Simon Kaner

368.

Hudson, Mark J. and Kaner, Simon

Editors’ introduction: Towards an archaeology

of Japanese ritual and religion. [113–28]

369.

Yamagata Mariko

The shakadō figurines and middle Jōmon ritual

in the Kōfu Basin. [129–38]

370.

Hudson, Mark J.

Rice, bronze, and chieftains: An archaeology of

Yayoi ritual. [139–89]

371.

Ishino Hironobu

Rites and rituals of the Kofun period. [191–216]
372.

Kidder, Edward J., Jr.

Busshari and fukuzō: Buddhist relics

and hidden repositories of Hōryū-ji. [217–44]

373.

Chiyonobu Yoshimasa

Recent archaeological excavations at the Tōdai-ji.

[245–54]

374.

Utagawa Hiroshi

The “sending-back” rite in Ainu culture.

[255–70]

375.

Tanigawa Akio

Excavating Edo’s cemeteries: Graves as indicators

of status and class. [271–97]

376.

Uchiyama Junzō

San’ei-chō and meat-eating in Buddhist Edo.

[299–303]

 

December 1992, 19/4

377.

Anderson, Richard W.

To open the hearts of people: Experience narratives

and Zenrinkai training sessions. [307–24]

378.

Métraux, Daniel A.

The dispute between the Sōka Gakkai and the Nichiren

Shōshū priesthood: A lay revolution against a conservative clergy. [325–36]

379.

Bargen, Doris G.

Ancestral to none: Mizuko in Kawabata. [337–77]
380.

Swyngedouw, Jan

Review of: Ian Reader, Religion in Contemporary

Japan; Winston Davis, Japanese Religion and Society: Paradigms of Structure

and Change. [379–82]

381.

Morrell, Robert E.

Review of: Royall Tyler, The Miracles of Kasuga

Deity; Susan C. Tyler, The Cult of Kasuga Seen through Its Art. [382–90]

382.

Grapard, Alan G.

Review of: James Ketelaar, Of Heretics and Martyrs

in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution. [390–95]

383.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn

Review of: Peter Nosco, Remembering Paradise:

Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan. [395–97]

384.

Havens, Norman

Review of: Donald L Philippi, Norito: A Translation

of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers. [398–401]

385.

Smits, Gregory

Review of: Rosemary Mercer, trans., Deep Words:

Miura Baien’s System of Natural Philosophy. [401–4]

 

March 1993, 20/1

386.

Nosco, Peter

Secrecy and the transmission of tradition: Issues

in the study of the “underground” Christians. [3–29]

387.

Dumoulin, Heinrich

Early Chinese Zen reexamined: A supplement to Zen

Buddhism: A History. [31–53]

388.

Yiengpruksawan, Mimi

Downloading the Lotus: From the public to the private

at Kiyohira’s Chūson-ji. [55–72]

389.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur,

and Masatoshi Nagatomi, eds., Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary

and Visual Arts of Japan. [73–77]

390.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: David J Kalupahana,, A History of

Buddhist Philosophy: Continuities and Discontinuities. [78–83]

391.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Han F. de Wit, Contemplative Psychology.

[83–86]

392.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: José Ignacio Cabezón, ed., Buddhism,

Sexuality, and Gender. [86–89]

June–September

1993, 20/2–3

Focus on Japanese Scholarship

Edited by Paul L. Swanson and Thomas L. Kirchner

393.

Swanson, Paul L. and Kirchner, Thomas L.

Editors’ introduction. [93–94]
394.

Akima Toshio

The myth of the goddess of the undersea world and

the tale of Empress Jingū’s subjugation of Silla. [95–185]

395.

Shinno Toshikazu

From minkan-shinkō to minzoku-shūkyō:

Reflections on the study of folk Buddhism. [187–206]

396.

Hayashi Makoto and Yamanaka Hiroshi

The adaptation of Max Weber’s theories of

religion in Japan. [207–28]

397.

Reader, Ian

Recent Japanese publications on the New Religions:

The work of Shimazono Susumu. A review of Shimazono Susumu, Gendai kyūsai

shūkyōron; Shin-shinshūkyō to shūkyō būmu; Sukui to toku: Shinshūkyō shinkōsha

no seikatsu to shisō. [229–48]

398.

Horo Atsuhiko

Review of: Himi Kiyoshi, Tanabe tetsugaku kenkyū:

Shūkyōtetsugaku no kanten kara. [249–52]

399.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Keta Masako, Shūkyōkeiken

no tetsugaku:  Jōdokyō sekai no kaimei.

[252–55]

400.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Saitō Enshin, trans., Jikaku Daishi

den: The Biography of Jikaku Daishi Ennin. [255–57]

 

December 1993, 20/4

401.

Deal, William E.

The Lotus Sūtra and the rhetoric of legitimization

in eleventh-century Japanese Buddhism. [261–95]

402.

Kassel, Marleen

Moral education in early-modern Japan: The Kangien

Confucian Academy of Hirose Tansō. [297–310]

403.

Reichl, Christopher A.

The Okinawan new religion Ijun: Innovation and

diversity in the gender of the ritual specialist. [311–30]

404.

Mohr, Michel

Review article: Examining the sources of Japanese

Rinzai Zen. A review of Kenneth Kraft, Eloquent Zen: Daitō and Early Japanese

Zen. [331–44]

405.

Dobbins, James C.

Review of: Minor and Ann Rogers, Rennyo: The

Second Founder of Shin Buddhism. [345–51]

406.

Stone, Jacqueline

Review of: David A. Snow, Shakubuku: A Study

of the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Movement in America, 1960–1975; Jane

Hurst, Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and the Soka Gakkai in America: The Ethos

of a New Religious Movement. [351–59]

407.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Heng-ching Shih, The Syncretism of

Ch’an and Pure Land Buddhism. [359–62]

 

March 1994, 21/1

408.

Bodiford, William M.

Sōtō Zen in a Japanese town: Field notes on a once-every-thirty-three-years

Kannon festival. [3–36]

409.

Heine, Steven

“Critical Buddhism” (Hihan Bukkyō)

and the debate concerning the 75-fascicle and 12-fascicle Shōbōgenzō

texts. [37–72]

410.

Kisala, Robert

Contemporary karma: Interpretations of karma in

Tenrikyō and Risshō Kōseikai. [73–91]

411.

Tyler, Susan

Review of: Allan G. Grapard, The Protocol of

the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History. “The author

replies,” (Allan Grapard); and “The reviewer replies,” by Susan

Tyler. [93–110]

412.

Young, Richard F.

Review of: Emily Groszos Ooms, Women and Millenarian

Protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Ōmotokyō. [110–13]

413.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Steven Heine, Dōgen and the Kōan

Tradition: A Tale of Two Shōbōgenzō Texts. [113–15]

414.

O’Sullivan, Michael A.

Review of: Michael A. Williams, Collett Cox, and

Martin S. Jaffee, eds., Innovation in Religious Traditions: Essays in the

Interpretation of Religious Change. [115–18]

415.

Gardner, Richard

Review of: Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual

Practice. [118–20]

 

June–September

1994, 21/2–3

Conflict and Religion in Japan

Guest Editors: Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe

416.

Reader, Ian, and Tanabe, George J.

Editors’ introduction. [123–35]
417.

Hardacre, Helen

Conflict between Shugendō and the New Religions

of Bakumatsu Japan. [137–66]

418.

Hayashi Makoto

Tokugawa-period disputes between Shugen organizations

and Onmyōji over rights to practice divination. [167–89]

419.

Baroni, Helen J.

Bottled anger: Episodes in Ōbaku conflict in the

Tokugawa period. [191–210]

420.

Sawada, Janine Anderson

Religious conflict in Bakumatsu Japan: Zen master

Imakita Kōsen and Confucian scholar Higashi Takusha. [211–30]

421.

Stone, Jacqueline

Rebuking the enemies of the Lotus: Nichirenist

exclusivism in historical perspective. [231–59]

422.

Mullins, Mark R.

Ideology and utopianism in wartime Japan: An essay

on the subversiveness of Christian eschatology. [261–80]

423.

Morioka Kiyomi

Attacks on the New Religions: Risshō Kōseikai and

the “Yomiuri Affair.” [281–310]

424.

Anderson, Richard W.

Risshō Kōseikai and the Bodhisattva way: Religious

ideals, conflict, gender, and status. [311–37]

 

December 1994, 21/4

425.

Mohr, Michel

Zen Buddhism during the Tokugawa period: The challenge

to go beyond sectarian consciousness. [341–72]

426.

Rambelli, Fabio

True words, silence, and the adamantine dance:

On Japanese Mikkyō and the formation of the Shingon discourse. [373–405]

427.

Pearce, Thomas H.

Tenchi Seikyō: A messianic Buddhist cult. [407–24]
428.

App, Urs

Review article: Linji’s evergreens. A review

of Burton Watson, trans., The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi. [425–36]

429.

Tanabe, George

Review of: William R. LaFleur, Liquid Life:

Abortion and Buddhism in Japan. [437–40]

430.

Nosco, Peter

Review of: Janine Anderson Sawada, Confucian

Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan. [441–42]

431.

Reasoner, Paul

Review of: Arthur H. Thornhill III, Six Circles,

One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku. [442–45]

432.

Kawahashi Noriko

Review of: Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy:

A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism. [445–49]

433.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn

Review of: Peter K. Lee, ed., Confucian-Christian

Encounters in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. [449–51]

 

Spring

1995, 22/1–2

 

434.

Sueki Fumihiko

Two seemingly contradictory aspects of the teaching

of innate enlightenment (hongaku) in medieval Japan. [3–16]

435.

Stone, Jacqueline

Medieval Tendai hongaku thought and the

new Kamakura Buddhism: A reconsideration. [17–48]

436.

Groner, Paul

A medieval Japanese reading of the Mo-ho chih-kuan:

Placing the Kankō ruijū in historical context. [49–81]

437.

Habito, Ruben L. F.

The logic of nonduality and absolute affirmation:

Deconstructing Tendai hongaku writings. [83–101]

438.

Abe Ryūichi

Saichō and Kūkai: A conflict of interpretations.

[103–37]

439.

Antoni, Klaus

The “separation of gods and buddhas”

at Omiwa Jinja in Meiji Japan. [139–59]

440.

Kawahashi Noriko

Jizoku (priests’ wives) in Sōtō Zen

Buddhism: An ambiguous category. [161–83]

441.

LaFleur, William R.

Silences and censures: Abortion, history, and Buddhism

in Japan. A rejoinder to George Tanabe. [185–96]

442.

Tanabe, George J.

Sounds and silences: A counterresponse. [197–200]
443.

Fitzgerald, Tim

Review article: Things, thoughts, and people out

of place. A Review of Mark R. Mullins, Shimazono Susumu, and Paul L. Swanson,

eds., Religion and Society in Modern Japan. [201–17]

444.

Reader, Ian

Review of: Bryan Wilson and Karel Dobbelaere, A

Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain. [219–24]

445.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Ng Yu-Kwan. T’ien-t’ai

Buddhism and Early Mādhyamika. [224–27]

446.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Steven W. Laycock, Mind as Mirror

and the Mirroring of Mind: Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology.

[227–29]

447.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Center for Japan Studies at Berkeley,

Multimedia Dictionary of Shinto and Japanese Life: Interactive Introduction

to Japanese Culture and Classics. [229–31]

 

Fall 1995,

22/3–4

The New Age in Japan

Guest Editors: Haga Manabu and Robert J. Kisala

448.

Haga Manabu and Kisala, Robert J.

Editors’ introduction. [235–47]
449.

Suzuki Kentarō

Divination in contemporary Japan: A general overview

and an analysis of survey results. [249–66]

450.

Yumiyama Tatsuya

Varieties of healing in present-day Japan. [267–82]
451.

Haga Manabu

Self-development seminars in Japan. [283–99]
452.

Nagai Mikiko

Magic and self-cultivation in a New Religion: The

case of Shinnyoen. [301–20]

453.

Knecht, Peter

The crux of the cross: Mahikari’s core symbol.

[321–41]

454.

Astley, Trevor

The transformation of a recent Japanese new religion:

Ōkawa Ryūhō and Kōfuku no Kagaku. [343–80]

455.

Shimazono Susumu

In the wake of Aum: The formation and transformation

of a universe of belief. [381–415]

456.

Sharf, Robert H.

Sanbōkyōdan: Zen and the way of the New Religions.

[417–58]

457.

Van Bragt, Jan

In memoriam: Heinrich Dumoulin (1905–1995).

[459–61]

 

Spring 1996, 23/1–2

458.

Bodiford, William

Zen and the art of religious prejudice: Efforts

to reform a tradition of social discrimination. [1–27]

459.

Takeuchi Lone

An Otogizōshi in context:  Saru

no sōshi and the Hie-Enryaku-ji religious multiplex in the late sixteenth

century. [29–60]

460.

Sugahara Shinkai

The distinctive features of Sannō Ichijitsu Shinto.

[61–84]

461.

Smyers, Karen A.

“My own Inari”: Personalization of the

deity in Inari worship. [85–116]

462.

Nelson, John K.

Freedom of expression: The very modern practice

of visiting a Shinto shrine. [117–53]

463.

Amstutz, Galen

Missing Hongan-ji in Japanese studies. [155–78]
464.

Hubbard, Jamie

Review of: James W. Heisig and John C. Maraldo,

eds., Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism.

[179–85]

465.

Reader, Ian

Review of: Donald F. McCallum, Zenkōji and Its

Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art. [185–89]

466.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine,

eds., Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives. [189–92]

467.

Kruse, Michael

Review of: Robert E. Buswell, The Zen Monastic

Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea. [192–96]

468.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Buddha:

The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood. [196–200]

469.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Paul Mommaers and Jan Van Bragt, Mysticism

Buddhist and Christian: Encounters with Jan van Ruusbroec. [200–4]

470.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Richard Henry Drummond, A Broader

Vision: Perspectives on the Buddha and the Christ. [204–8]

471.

Blosser, Philip

Review of: Russell H. Bowers, Jr., Someone or

Nothing? Nishitani’s Religion and Nothingness as a Foundation for Christian-Buddhist

Dialogue. [209–11]

472.

Hudson, Mark

Review of: Isomae Jun’ichi, Dogū to kamen:

Jōmon shakai no shūkyō kōzō. [211–13]

473.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Rice as Self:

Japanese Identities through Time. [213–14]

474.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: International Research Institute for

Zen Buddhism, ZenBase CD 1; Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, CD-ROM-ban,

Taishō shinshū daizōkyō dai-nijūgo-kan, shakukyōron-bu jō. [214–15]

 

Fall 1996,

23/3–4

The Legacy of Kuroda Toshio

Guest Editor: James C. Dobbins

475.

Dobbins, James C.

Editor’s introduction: Kuroda Toshio and his

scholarship. [217–32]

476.

Kuroda Toshio

The development of the kenmitsu system as

Japan’s medieval orthodoxy. [233–69]

477.

Kuroda Toshio

The imperial law and the Buddhist law. [271–85]
478.

Kuroda Toshio

Buddhism and society in the medieval estate system.

[287–319]

479.

Kuroda Toshio

The world of spirit pacification: Issues of state

and religion. [321–51]

480.

Kuroda Toshio

The discourse on the “Land of Kami” (shinkoku)

in medieval Japan: National consciousness and international awareness.

[353–85]

481.

Rambelli, Fabio

Religion, ideology of domination, and nationalism:

Kuroda Toshio on the discourse of shinkoku. [387–426]

482.

Taira Masayuki

Kuroda Toshio and the kenmitsu taisei theory.

[427–48]

483.

Sueki Fumihiko

A reexamination of the kenmitsu taisei theory.

[449–66]

484.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Mark Teeuwen, Watarai Shintō: An

Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise. [467–68]

 

Spring 1997, 24/1–2

485.

Sanford, James H.

Wind, waters, stupas, mandalas: Fetal Buddhahood

in Shingon. [1–38]

486.

Heine, Steven

The Dōgen canon: Dōgen’s pre-Shōbōgenzō

writings and the question of change in his later works. [39–85]

487.

Nakamura Kyōko

The religious consciousness and activities of contemporary

Japanese women. [87–120]

488.

Anderson, Richard W. and Martin, Elaine

Rethinking the practice of mizuko kuyō in

contemporary Japan: Interviews with practitioners at a Buddhist temple in

Tokyo. [121–43]

489.

Fowler, Sherry

In search of the dragon: Mt. Murō’s sacred

topography. [145–61]

490.

Smits, Gregory

Unspeakable things: Sai On’s ambivalent critique

of language and Buddhism. [163–78]

491.

Matsuo Kenji

What is Kamakura new Buddhism? Official monks and

reclusive monks. [179–89]

492.

Burton, Watson

Review of: Ryūichi Abe and Peter Haskel, translated

with essays, Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan, Poems, Letters, and Other Writings.

[191–94]

493.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Bernard Faure, Visions of Power:

Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism. [194–97]

494.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Ueda Shizuteru, Nishida Kitarō: Ningen

no shōgai to iu koto; Keiken to jikaku: Nishida Tetsugaku no “basho”

o motomete. [197–202]

495.

Su Jun

Review of: Ng Yu-Kwan, The Philosophy of the

Kyoto School: Hisamatsu Shin’ichi [202–6]

496.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Review of: D. W. Bracket, Holy Terror: Armageddon

in Tokyo; David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall, The Cult at the End

of the World: The Incredible Story of Aum; The Japan Times, Terror

in the Heart of Tokyo: The Aum Shinrikyo Doomsday Cult; Ian Reader,

A Poisonous Cocktail: Aum Shinrikyō’s Path to Violence.

[207–10]

497.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Brian Bocking, A Popular Dictionary

of Shinto; Nāgārjuna in China: A Translation of the Middle Treatise. [210–11]

498.

Teeuwen, Mark

Review of: John K. Nelson, A Year in the Life

of a Shinto Shrine. [211–14]

499.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Mark Teeuwen, trans., Motoori Norinaga’s

The Two Shrines of Ise: An Essay of Split Bamboo (Ise Nikū Sakitake no Ben).

[214–15]

500.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Irit Averbuch, The Gods Come Dancing:

A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura. [215–16]

501.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Review of: David M. O’Brien with Yasuo Ohkoshi,

To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar

Japan. [217–19]

502.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Hee-Sung Keel, Understanding Shinran:

A Dialogical Approach. [219–22]

 

Fall 1997,

24/3–4

Pilgrimage in Japan

Guest Editors: Ian Reader and Paul L. Swanson

503.

Reader, Ian and Swanson, Paul L.

Editors’ introduction: Pilgrimage in the Japanese

religious tradition. [225–70]

504.

Hoshino Eiki

Pilgrimage and peregrination: Contextualizing the

Saikoku junrei and the Shikoku henro. [271–99]

505.

Ambros, Barbara

Liminal journeys: Pilgrimages of noblewomen in

mid-Heian Japan. [301–45]

506.

Moerman, David

The ideology of landscape and the theater of state:

Insei pilgrimage to Kumano (1090–1220). [347–74]

507.

MacWilliams, Mark W.

Temple myths and the popularization of Kannon pilgrimage

in Japan: A case study of Ōya-ji on the Bandō Route. [375–411]

508.

Kouamé, Nathalie

Shikoku’s local authorities and henro

during the golden age of the pilgrimage. [413–25]

509.

Smyers, Karen A.

Inari pilgrimage: Following one’s path on

the mountain. [427–52]

 

Spring

1998, 25/1–2

Meiji Zen

Guest Editors: Richard Jaffe and Michel Mohr

510.

Jaffe, Richard and Mohr, Michel

Editors’ introduction: Meiji Zen. [1–10]
511.

Ikeda Eishun

Teaching assemblies and lay societies in the formation

of modern sectarian Buddhism. [11–44]

512.

Jaffe, Richard

Meiji religious policy, Sōtō Zen, and the clerical

marriage problem. [45–85]

513.

Ishikawa Rikizan

The social response of Buddhists to the modernization

of Japan: The contrasting lives of two Sōtō Zen monks. [87–115]

514.

Sawada, Janine Anderson

Political waves in the Zen sea: The Engaku-ji Circle

in early Meiji Japan. [117–50]

515.

Katō Shōshun

“A Lineage of Dullards”: Zen Master Tōjū

Reisō and his associates. [151–65]

516.

Mohr, Michel

Japanese Zen schools and the transition to Meiji:

A plurality of responses in the nineteenth century. [167–213]

517.

Jaffe, Richard

In memoriam: Ishikawa Rikizan (1943–1997).

[215–18]

 

Fall 1998, 25/3–4

518.

Bowring, Richard

Preparing for the Pure Land in late tenth-century

Japan. [221–57]

519.

Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall

Hakusan at Hiraizumi: Notes on a sacred geopolitics

in the eastern provinces. [259–76]

520.

Chin, Gail

The gender of Buddhist truth: The female corpse

in a group of Japanese paintings. [277–317]

521.

Snodgrass, Judith

Buddha no fukuin: The deployment of Paul

Carus's Gospel of Buddha in Meiji Japan. [319–44]

522.

Ornatowski, Gregory K.

On the boundary between “religious” and

“secular”: The ideal and practice of Neo-Confucian self-cultivation

in modern Japanese economic life. [345–76]

523.

Tanabe, George J., Jr.

Review of: Helen Hardacre, Marketing the Menacing

Fetus in Japan. [377–80]

524.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Review of: Takeshi Umehara, The Concept of Hell.

[380–83]

525.

Rath, Eric C.

Review of: Jane Marie Law, Puppets of Nostalgia:

The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Tradition. [384–85]

526.

Pye, Michael

Review of: Martin Repp, Aum Shinrikyō:

Ein Kapitel krimineller Religionsgeschichte. [385–88]

527.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Review of: Sheldon Garon, Molding Japanese Minds:

The State in Everyday Life. [388–92]

528.

Keenan, John

Review of: Robert Magliola, On Deconstructing

Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture; and “A Response,”

(Robert Magliola). [392–96]

529.

Powers, John

Review of: Gregory Schopen, Bones, Stones, and

Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts

of Monastic Buddhism in India. [396–99]

530.

Lam Wing Keung

Review of: Ng Yu-kwan, The Philosophy of Absolute

Nothingness: An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Kyoto School. [399–402]

531.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Review of: John Bowker, ed., The Oxford Dictionary

of World Religions. [402–3]

532.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Review of: Andrew C. Ross, A Vision Betrayed:

The Jesuits in Japan and China. [403–5]

 

Spring 1999, 26/1–2

533.

Tucker, John Allan

Rethinking the Ako Ronin Debate: The Religious

Significance of Chushin gishi. [1–37]

534.

Buijnsters, Marc

Jichihan and the Restoration and Innovation of

Buddhist Practice. [39–82]

535.

Ives, Christopher

The Mobilization of Doctrine: Buddhist Contributions

to Imperial Ideology in Modern Japan. [83–106]

536.

Hur, Nam-lin

The Sōtō Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism

in Korea. [107-34]

537.

Payne, Richard K.

At Midlife in Medieval Japan [135–57]
538.

Stone, Jacqueline

Some Reflections on Critical Buddhism (Review article:

Hubbard and Swanson, Pruning the Bodhi Tree). [159–88]

539.

Sasaki Shizuka

The Mahaparinirvana Sutra and the Origins

of Mahayana Buddhism (Review article: Shimoda, Nehangyo no kenkyu).

[189–97]

540.

Kisala, Robert

Review of: Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe, Jr.,

Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan.

[199–201]

541.

Reid, David

Review of: Mark R. Mullins, Christianity Made

in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Momements. [201–4]

542.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Ricahrd K. Payne, ed., Re-Visioning

"Kamakura" Buddhism. [204–5]

543.

Ebersole, Gary L.

Review of: Isomae Jun'ichi,  Kiki shinwa

no metahisutori (A metahistory of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki myths). [206–8]

544.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Peter Harvey, The Selfless Mind;

Frank J. Hoffman and Mahinda Deegalle, eds., Pali Buddhism; John Pickering,

ed., The Authority of Experience; and Paul Williams, Altruism and

Reality [208–15]

545.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Arie Van der Kooij and Karel van der

Toorn, eds., Canonization and Decanonization [216–20]

 

Fall 1999,

26/3–4

Revisting Nichiren

Guest Editors: Ruben L. F. Habito and Jacqueline I. Stone

546.

Habito, Ruben L. F., and Jacqueline I. Stone

Revisiting Nichiren: Editors' Introduction. [223-38]

(including Nichiren Bibliography and Chronology, and a Memorial on Takagi

Yutaka)

547.

Asai Endo

Nichiren Shonin's View of Humanity: The Final Dharma

Age and the Three Thousand Realms in One Thought-Moment [239–59]

548.

Sueki Fumihiko

Nichiren's Problematic Works. [261–80]
549.

Habito, Ruben L. F.

Bodily Reading of the Lotus Sutra: Understanding

Nichiren's Buddhism. [281–306]

550.

Satō Hiroo

Nichiren's View of Nation and Religion [307–23]
551.

Deal, William E.

Nichiren's Rissho ankoku ron and Canon Formation

[325–48]

552.

Dolce, Lucia

Criticism and Appropriation: Nichiren's Attitude

toward Esoteric Buddhism. [349–82]

553.

Stone, Jacqueline

Placing Nichiren in the "Big Picture":

Some Ongoing Issues in Scholarship. [383–421]

554.

Habito, Ruben L. F.

Review article: The Uses of Nichiren in Modern

Japanese History [423–39]

555.

Stone, Jacqueline

Review article: Biographical Studies of Nichiren

[441–58]

 

Spring 2000, 27/1–2

556.

Cox, Harvey G.

(with an introduction by Jan Swyngedouw
The Myth of the Twentieth Century: The Rise and

Fall of Secularization. [1-13]

557.

Isomae Jun'ichi

Reappropriating the Japanese Myths: Motoori Norinaga

and the Creation Myths of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki. [15–39]

558.

Groemer, Gerald

A Short History of the Gannin: Popular Religious

Performers in Tokugawa Japan. [41–72]

559.

Takasaki Jikidō

The Tathagatagarbha Theory Reconsidered: Reflections

on Some Recent Issues in Japanese Buddhist Studies. [73–83]

560.

Kawahashi Noriko

Seven Hindrances of Women? A Popular Discourse

on Okinawan Women and Religion. [85–98]

561.

Okuyama Michiaki

Approaches East and West to the History of Religions:

Four Japanese Thinkers. [99–114]

562.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Jacqueline Stone, Original Enlightenment

and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism. [115–17]

563.

Mullins, Mark R.

Review of: Ian Reader, Religious Violence in

Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo. [118–20]

564.

Schnell, Scott

Review of: Karen Smyers, The Fox and the Jewel:

Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Inari Worship. [120–23]

565.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Senchakushu English Translation Project,

trans. and ed., Hōnen's Senchakushu: Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu

in the Original Vow (Senchaku hongan numbutsu shu). [123–25]

566.

Kleine, Christoph

Review of: Machida Soho, Renegade Monk: Honen

and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. [125–29]

567.

Bowring, Richard

Review of: Mark J. Teeuwen and Hendrik van der

Veer, Nakatomi Harae Kunge: Purification and Enlightenment in Late-Heian

Japan. [129–30]

568.

Kopf, Gereon

Review of: Lydia Brull, Die Japanische Philosophie:

Eine Einfuhrung. [131–34]

569.

Brown, Delmer

Review of: John S. Brownlee, Japanese Historians

and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jimmu.

[134–37]

570.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Engelbert Kaempfer, Kaempfer's Japan:

Tokugawa Culture Observed. [137–39]

571.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Doris G. Bargen, A Woman's Weapon:

Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji. [139–43]

572.

Metcalf, Franz Aubrey

Review of: Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher

S. Queen, American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship.

[143–46]

573.

Métraux, Daniel A.

Review of: Philip Hammond and David Machacek,

Soka Gakkai in America: Accommodation and Conversion. [147–49]

574.

Métraux, Daniel A.

eview of: Peter B. Clarke, A Bibliography of

Japanese New Religious Movements: With Annotations and an Introduction to

Japanese New Religions at Home and Abroad. [149–51]

575.

Kawanami, Hiroko

Review of: Paula Arai, Women Living Zen: Japanese

Soto Buddhist Nuns. [151–53]

576.

Hori, Victor Sogen

Review of: Bernard Faure, The Red Thread: Buddhist

Approaches to Sexuality. [153–59]

 

Fall 2000,

27/3–4

Mortuary Rites in Japan

Guest Editors: Elizabeth Kenney and Edmund T. Gilday

577.

Kenney, Elizabeth and Edmund T. Gilday

Mortuary Rites in Japan: Editors' Introduction.

[163-78] (including an outline of a "typical Japanese funeral")

578.

Blum, Mark L.

Stand By Your Founder: Honganji's Struggle with

Funeral Orthodoxy. [179–212]

579.

Fister, Patricia

Creating Devotional Art with Body Fragments: The

Buddhist Nun Bunchi and Her Father, Emperor Gomizuno-o. [213-38]

580.

Kenney, Elizabeth

Shinto Funerals in the Edo Period. [239–71]
581.

Gilday, Edmund T.

Bodies of Evidence: Imperial Funeral Rites and

the Meiji Restoration. [273–96]

582.

Bernstein, Andrew

Fire and Earth: The Forging of Modern Cremation

in Meiji Japan. [297–334]

583.

Murakami Kyōkō

Changes in Japanese Urban Funeral Customs during

the Twentieth Century. [335–52]

584.

Rowe, Mark

Stickers for Nails: The Ongoing Transformation

of Roles, Rites, and Symbols in Japanese Funerals. [353–78]

585.

Kretschmer, Angelika

Mortuary Rites for Inanimate Objects: The Case

of Hari Kuyō. [379–404]

 

Spring 2001, 28/1–2

586.

Yamada Shōji


The Myth of Zen in the Art of Archery. [1-30]
587.

Ruppert, Brian D.

Sin or Crime? Buddhism, Indebtedness, and the Construction

of Social Relations in Early Medieval Japan. [31–55]

588.

Fisch, Michael

The Rise of the Chapel Wedding in Japan: Simulation

and Performance. [57–76]

589.

Matsuoka Hideaki

"Messianity Makes a Person Useful": Describing

Differences in a Japanese Religion in Brazil. [77–102]

590.

Matsuo Kenji

Explaining the "Mystery" of Ban Dainagon

ekotoba. [103–31]

591.

Heine, Steven

After the Storm: Matsumoto Shirō's Transition from

"Critical Buddhism" to Critical Theology (Review article: Matsumoto,

Dōgen shisō ron). [133–56]

592.

Stone, Jacqueline E.

Review of: Sueki Fumihiko, Kamakura Bukkyō keisei

ron. [147–53]

593.

Tanabe, George J., Jr.

Review of: Abe Ryuichi, The Weaving of Mantra:

Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse. [153–6]

594.

O'Leary, Joseph

Review of: Bernard Frank, Cieux et Bouddhas

au Japan and Amour, coliere, couleur: Essais sur le bouddhisme au

Japan. [157–60]

595.

Reader, Ian

Review of: Scott Schnell, The Rousing Drum:

Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community. [160–64]

596.

Schnell, Scott

Review of: John K. Nelson, Enduring Identities:

The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. [164–68]

597.

M. Seishu Kawahashi

Review of: He Yansheng, Dogen to Chugoku Zen

shiso. [168–71]

598.

Kopf, Gereon

Review of: Steven Heine, Shifting Shape, Shaping

Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan. [171–4]

599.

Williams, Duncan Ryuken

Review of: Helen J. Baroni, Obaku Zen: The Emergence

of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan. [174–8]

600.

Kaufman, Laura S.

Review of: S. A. Thornton, Charisma and Community

Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300-1700). [178–81]

601.

Stone, Jacqueline I.

Review of: Hayami Tasuku, Inseiki no Bukkyō.

[181–84]

602.

Addiss, Stephen

Review of: Joseph D. Parker, Zen Buddhist Landscape

Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573). [181–86]

603.

Tanabe, Willa Jane

Review of: Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Japanese

Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography. [186–88]

604.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Dennis Hirota, ed., Toward a Contemporary

Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism: Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in

a Religiously Plural World. [188–92]

605.

Kisala, Robert J.

eview of: Peter B. Clarke, ed. Japanese New

Religions in Global Perspective. [192–95]

606.

Kisala, Robert J.

Review of: John R. Hall, with Philip D. Schuyler

and Sylvaine Trinh. Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence

in North America, Europe, and Japan. [195–98]

607.

Knecht, Peter

Review of: Li Narangoa, Japanische Religionspolitik

in der Mongolei 1932-1945. Reformbestrebungen und Dialog zwischen japanischem

und mongolischem Buddhismus. [198–200]

608.

Wacker, Monika

Review of: Susan Sered, Women of the Sacred

Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa. [201–204]

 

Fall 2001,

28/3–4

Local Religion in Tokugawa History

Guest Editors: Barbara Ambros & Duncan Williams

609.

Ambros, Barbara, and Duncan Williams

Local Religion in Tokugawa HIstory: Editors' Introduction.

[209–25]

610.

Hardacre, Helen

Sources for the Study of Religion and Society in

the Late Edo Period. [227–60]

611.

Tamamuro Fumio

Local Society and the Temple-Parishioner Relationship

within the Bakufu's Governance Structure. [261–92]

612.

Vesey, Alexander M.

Entering the Temple: Priests, Peasants, and Village

Contention in Tokugawa Japan. [293–328]

613.

Ambros, Barbara

Localized Religious Specialists in Early Modern

Japan: The Development of the Õyama Oshi System. [329–72]

614.

Rotermund, Hartmut O.

Demonic Affliction or Contagious Disease? Changing

Perceptions of Smallpox in the Late Edo Period. [373–98]

615.

Miyazaki Fumiko and Duncan Williams

The Intersection of the Local and Translocal at

a Sacred Site: The Case of Osorezan in Tokugawa Japan. [399–440]

616.

Gardner, Richard A.

Review of: Nam-lin Hur, Prayer and Play in Tokugawa

Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society. [441–44]

 
 

Spring

2002, 29/1–2

617.

Ruppert, Brian O.

Pearl in the Shrine: A Genealogy of the Buddhist

Jewel of the Japanese Sovereign. [1–33]

618.

Wakabayashi, Haruko

The Dharma for Sovereigns and Warriors: Onjō-ji’s

Claim for Legitimacy in Tengu zōshi. [35–66]

619.

Ford, James L.

Jōkei and the Rhetoric of “Other Power”

and “Easy Practice” in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. [67–106]

620.

Tucker, John Allen

Quiet-Sitting and Political Activism: The Thought

and Practice of Satō Naokata. [107–46]

621.

Londo, William

Review of: Henny van der Veere, A Study into

the Thought of Kōgyō Daishi Kakuban. [147–9]

622.

Payne, Richard K.

Review of :Brian Bocking, The Oracles of the

Three Shrines: Windows on Japanese Religion. [150–2]

623.

Deal, William E.

Brian D. Ruppert, Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha

Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan. [152–6]

624.

Ruppert, Brian O.

Review of: Mikeal S. Adolphson, The Gates of

Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan. [156–62]

625.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Miyake Hitoshi, Shugendō: Essays

on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion. [162–4]

626.

McMullen, James

Review of: Wai-ming Ng, The I Ching in Tokugawa

Thought and Culture. [164–5]

627.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Robert E. Carter, The Nothingness

Beyond God: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro. [165–8]

628.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of:James W. Heisig, Philosophers of Nothingness:

An Essay on the Kyoto School. [168–75]

629.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Jean Greisch, Le Buisson ardent et

les lumières de la raison; L’invention de la philosophie de la

religion. Tome I: Héritages et héritiers de XIXe siècle.

[175–80]

630.

Van Bragt, Jan

Review of: Mitchiko Ishigami-Iagolnitzer, Saint

Francois d’Assise et Maître Dõgen. L’esprit franciscain

et le zen - Etude comparative sur quelques aspects de christianisme et de

bouddhisme. [180–4]

631.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Scott W. Sunquist, ed., A Dictionary

of Asian Christianity. [184–6]

632.

Sakashita, Jay

Review of: Willis Stoesz, ed., The Living Way:

Stories of Kurozumi Munetada, a Shinto Founder. [186–9]

633.

Frank, Junko and Lewis Frank

Correction. [189–91]
 

>Fall 2002,

29/3–4

Tracing Shinto in the History of Kami Worship

Guest Editors: Mark Teeuwen & Bernhard Scheid

634.

Teeuwen, Mark, and Bernhard Scheid

Tracing Shinto in the History of Kami Worship:

Editors' Introduction. [195–207]

635.

Grapard, Allan G.

Shrines Registered in Ancient Japanese Law: Shinto

or Not? [209–32]

636.

Teeuwen, Mark

From Jindō to Shinto: A Concept

Takes Shape. [233–63]

637.

Rambelli, Fabio

The Ritual World of Buddhist "Shinto":

The Reikiki and Initiations on Kami-Related Matters (jingi

kanjō) in Late Medieval and Early-Modern Japan. [265–97]

638.

Scheid, Bernhard

Shinto as a Religion for the Warrior Class: The

Case of Yoshikawa Koretaru. [299–324]

639.

Maeda, Hiromi

Court Rank for Village Shrines: The Yoshida House's

Interactions with Local Shrines during the Mid-Tokugawa Period. [325–58]

640.

McNally, Mark

The Sandaikō Debate: The Issue of

Orthodoxy in Late Tokugawa Nativism. [359–78]

641.

Thal, Sarah

Redining the Gods: Politics and Survival in the

Creation of Modern Kami. [379–404]

642.

Inoue Nobutaka

The Formation of Sect Shinto in Modernizing Japan.

[405–27]

643.

Teeuwen, Mark

Review of: Itō Satoshi, Endō Jun, Matsuo

Kōichi, and Mori Mizue, Nihonshi shōhyakka: Shintō.

[429–31]

 
 

Spring

2003, 30/1–2

644.

Yoshida Kazuhiko

Revisioning Religion in Ancient Japan. [1–26]
645.

Heine, Steven

Did Dōgen Go to China? Problematizing Dōgen’s

Relation to Ju-ching and Chinese Ch’an. [27–59]

646.

Como, Michael

Ethnicity, Sagehood, and the Politics of Literacy

in Asuka Japan. [61–84]

647.

Rowe, Mark

Grave Changes: Scattering Ashes in Contemporary

Japan. [85–118]

648.

Reader, Ian

Local Histories, Anthropological Interpretations,

and the Study of a Japanese Pilgrimage. [119–32]

649.

Kopf, Gereon

On the Brink of Postmodernity: Recent Japanese

Language Publications on the Philosophy of Nishida Kitarō. [133–56]

650.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Robert E. Carter, Encounter with

Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics

. [157–59]
651.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Carlo Saviani, L’Oriente di

Heidegger

and Nishitani Keiji, Nichilismo e vacuità del Sé.

A cura di Carlo Saviani

. [159–62]
652.

Hirota, Dennis

Review of: Mark L. Blum, The Origins and Development

of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyōnen’s Jōdo

Hōmon Genrushō

. [162–66]
653.

Horton, Sarah

Review of: Wm. Theodore deBary et al., comps.,

Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume One. [166–68]

654.

Matsudo Yukio

Review of: Gereon Kopf, Beyond Personal Identity:

Dōgen, Nishida, and a Phenomenology of No-Self

. [168–72]
655.

Nosco, Peter

Review of: Ikuo Higashibaba, Christianity in

Early Modern Japan: Kirishitan Belief and Practice

. [172–75]
656.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Gene Reeves, ed., A Buddhist Kaleidoscope:

Essays on the Lotus Sutra

. [175–77]
657.

Ruppert, Brian

Review of: Iyanaga Nobumi, Daikokuten hensō:

Bukkyō shinwagaku I and Kannon henyōtan: Bukkyō shinwagaku

II

. [177–86]
658.

Covell, Stephen G.

Review of: Richard M. Jaffe, Neither Monk nor

Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism

. [186–89]
659.

Shimazono Susumu

Review of: Shimada Hiromi, Oumu: Naze shūkyō

wa terorizumu o unda no ka

. [190–95]
660.

Stark, Rodney

Review of: Robert J. Kisala and Mark R. Mullins,

eds., Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society

through the Aum Affair. [195-97]

661.

Kopf, Gereon

Review of: Michiko Yusa, Zen and Philosophy:

An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō

. [197–201]
662.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Kazuo Kasahara, ed., A History of

Japanese Religion

. Translated by Paul McCarthy and Gaynor Sekimori. [201–203]
 

Fall 2003,

30/3–4

Feminism and Religion in Contemporary Japan

Guest Editors: Kawahashi Noriko & Kuroki Masako

663.

Kawahashi Noriko and Kuroki Masako

Feminism and Religion in Contemporary Japan: Editors'

Introduction. [207–16]

664.

Usui Atsuko

Women's "Experience" in New Religious

Movements: The Case of Shinnyoen. [217–41]

665.

Kaneko Juri

Can Tenrikyō Transcend the Modern Family?:

From a Humanistic Understanding of Hinagata and Narratives of Foster

Care Activities. [243–58]

666.

Komatsu Kayoko

Mizuko Kuyō and New Age Concepts of Reincarnation.

[259–78]

667.

Mori Ichiu

Nichiren’s View of Women. [279–90]
668.

Kawahashi Noriko

Feminist Buddhism as Praxis: Women in Traditional

Buddhism. [291–313]

669.

Yamaguchi Satoko

Christianity and Women in Japan. [315–38]
670.

Wacker, Monika

Onarigami: Holy Women in the Twentieth

Century. [339–59]

671.

Nomura Fumiko

Commemorating Professor Nakamura Kyōko. [361–62]
 
 

2004, 31/1

672.

Kanda, Fusae C.

Hōnen's Senchaku doctrine and his artistic agenda. [3–27]
673.

Horton, Sarah

The influence of the Ōjōyōshū in late tenth- and early eleventh-century Japan. [29–54]
674.

Heisig, James W.

Nishida's medieval bent. [55–72]
675.

Kopf, Gereon

Between identity and difference: Three ways of reading Nishida's non-dualism. [73–103]
676.

Dorman, Benjamin

SCAP's Scapegoat? The authorities, new religions, and a postwar taboo. [105–40]
677.

Schattschneider, Ellen

Family resemblances: Memorial images and the face of kinship. [141–62]
678.

Rocha, Cristina

Zazen or not zazen? The predicament of Sōtōshū's Kaikyōshi in Brazil. [163–84]
679.

Habito, Ruben L. F.

Review of: Victor Sōgen Hori, Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Kōan Practice. [185–88]
680.

Hori, Victor Sōgen

Review of: Steven Heine, Opening a Mountain: Kōans of the Zen Masters. [188–93]
681.

Kopf, Gereon

Review of: Abe, Masao. Zen and the Modern World: A Sequel to Zen and Western Thought. Edited by Steven Heine. [194–99]
682.

Sakabe Megumi

Review of: Nishida Kitarō, L'Éveil à soi. Traduction, introduction et notes de Jacynthe Tremblay. [199–201]
683.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Youxuan Wang, Buddhism and Deconstruction: Towards a Comparative Semiotics. [201–206]
684.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Paul Groner, Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century. [206–209]
685.

Wakabayashi Haruko

Review of: Thomas Conlan, In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan. [209–13]
686.

O'Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Frédéric Girard, Annick Horiuchi, Mieko Macé, ed., Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'heritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon. [213–16]
687.

Sawada, Janine Tasca

Review of: Helen Hardacre, Religion and Society

in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kantō Region, using Late

Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers

. [217–21]
688.
Metraux, Daniel A.
Review of: Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, Zen War Stories. [221–25]
689.
Hall, Hazel
Review of: Saburo Shawn Morishita, Teodori: Cosmological Building and Social Consolidation in a Ritual Dance. [225–29]
690.
Vervoorn, Aat
Review of: Benjamin A. Elman, John B. Duncan, and

Herman Ooms, Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan,

Korea, and Vietnam. [229–31]

691.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Ellen Schattschneider, Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain. [232–3]
692.

Swanson, Paul

L.

Review of: Osamu Tezuka, Buda, translated by Marc Bernabé and Verònica Calafell, and Osama Tezuka, Buddha. [233–40]
693.

Swyngedouw, Jan

In Memoriam: Abe Yoshiya (1937-2003). [241–42]
 

2004,

31/2

Traditional Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

Guest Editors: Stephen G. Covell and Mark Rowe

 
694.

Covell, Stephen G., and Mark Rowe

Editors' Introduction: Traditional Religion in Contemporary

Japan. [245–54]

695.

Covell,Stephen G.

Learning to Persevere: The Popular Teachings of

Tendai Ascetics. [255–87]

696.

Tanabe, Jr., George J.

Popular Buddhist Orthodoxy in Contemporary Japan.

[289–310]

697.

Riggs, Diane E.

Fukudenkai: Sewing the Buddha’s

Robe in Contemporary Japanese Buddhist Practice. [311–56]

698.

Rowe, Mark

Where the Action Is: Sites of Contemporary Sōtō Buddhism.

[357–88]

699.

Hardacre, Helen

Religion and Civil Society in Contemporary Japan.

[389–415]

700.

Watts, Jonathan S.

A Brief Overview of Buddhist NGOs in Japan. [417–28]
701.

Round-table Discussion

The Current State of Sectarian Universities. [429–64]
702.

Kumamoto Einin

Shut Up, Zen Priest: A Review of Minami Jikisai's

The Zen Priest Speaks and Other Works. [465–87]

703.

Swanson, Paul L.

Review of: Sueki Fumihiko, Kindai Nihon no

shisō, saikō

[Rethinking modern Japanese thought], 2 vols; Meiji

shisōka ron

[Essays on Meiji intellectuals], Kindai Nihon to Bukkyō

[Buddhism and modern Japan]. [489–93]

704.

Nakano Tsuyoshi

In memoriam: Bryan Ronald Wilson. [495–98]

2005, 32/1

705.

Kimbrough, R. Keller

Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural. [1–33]
706.

Lindsey, William

Religion and the Good Life: Motivation, Myth, and Metaphor in a Tokugawa Female Lifestyle Guide. [35–52]
707.

Tsang, Carol Richmond

Marriage, Adoption, and Honganji. [53–83]
708.

Leighton, Dan Taigen

Dōgen’s Appropriation of Lotus Sutra Ground

and Space. [85–105]

709.

Winfield, Pamela D.

Curing with Kaji: Healing and Esoteric Empowerment

in Japan. [107–30]

710.

Miyamoto Yuki

Rebirth in the Pure Land or God’s Sacrificial Lambs?

Religious Interpretations of the Atomic Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[131–59]

711.

Metraux, Daniel A.

Review of: Shimazono Susumu, From Salvation to

Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan

. [161–63]
712.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: David Williams, Defending Japan's

Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power

. [163–166]
713.

Habito, Ruben L. F.

Review of: Yukio Matsudo, Nichiren, der Ausübende

des Lotos-Sūtra

. [166–74]
714.

Liang Xiao-hong and Paul Swanson

Review of: He Yansheng, trans., Zheng fa yan

zang

[Shōbōgenzō]. [175–77]
715.

Heisig, James W.

Review of: Christopher S. Goto-Jones, Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School, and Co-Prosperity. [178–180]
716. Reid, David
Review of: Mark R. Mullins, ed., Handbook of Christianity in Japan. [181–85]
717.
Metraux, Daniel A.
Review of: Susan L. Burns, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. [185–87]

  

2005,
32/2

Essays from the XIXth World Congress of the IAHR, Tokyo, March 2005

718. Editors’ Introduction
Essays from the XIXth World Congress of the IAHR, Tokyo, March 2005. [191–95]
719. Sekimori, Gaynor
The Separation of Kami and Buddha Worship in Haguro Shugendō, 1869–1875.
[197–234]
720. Isomae Jun’ichi
Deconstructing “Japanese Religion”: A Historical Survey. [235–48]
721. Tweed, Thomas A.
American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism: Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History. [249–81]
722. Moriya Tomoe
Social Ethics of “New Buddhists” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Suzuki Daisetsu and Inoue Shūten. [283–304]
723. Yamaguchi Aki
Religious Universalism in Modern Japan: Unitarians as Mediators Between Intellectuals and the West. [305–18]
724. Matsuoka Hideaki
Landscape as Doctrinal Representation: The Sacred Place of Shūyōdan Hōseikai.
[319–39]
725. Staemmler, Birgit
Virtual Kamikakushi: An Element of Folk Belief in Changing Times and Media. [341–52]
726. Fujiwara Satoko
Survey on Religion and Higher Education in Japan. [353–70]
727. Inose Yūri
Influential Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: The Case of Sōka Gakkai in Hokkaido. [371–82]

2006, 33/1

728.

Clarke, Shayne

Miscellaneous Musings on Mūlasarvāstivāda Monks: The Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Revival in Tokugawa Japan. [1–49]
729.

Meeks, Lori R.

Reconfiguring Ritual Authenticity: The Ordination Traditions of Aristocratic Women in Premodern Japan. [51–74]
730.

Nenzi, Laura

To Ise at All Costs: Religious and Economic Implications of Early Modern Nukemairi. [75–114]
731.

Ludvik, Catherine

In the Service of the Kaihōgyō Practitioners of Mt. Hiei: The Stopping-Obstacles Confraternity (Sokushō kō) of Kyoto. [115–42]
732.

Josephson, Jason Ānanda

When Buddhism Became a “Religion”: Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō. [143–68]
733.

Shinno Toshikazu

Review of: Ian Reader, Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku.

[169–74]

734.

Mohr, Michel

Review of: Duncan Ryūken Williams, The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen: Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan. [175–78]
735.

Schnell, Scott

Review of: Satsuki Kawano, Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action. [178–81]
736.

O’Leary, Joseph S.

Review of: Donald S. Lopez, ed., Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism. [182–86]
737.

Snodgrass, Adrian

Review of: Sherry D. Fowler, Murōji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple. [187–90]
738.

Kimbrough, R. Keller

Review of: Ikumi Kaminishi, Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. [190–94]
739. Powers, John
Review of: William M. Bodiford, ed., Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya. [194–98]
740.
Leighton, Taigen Dan
Review of: Thomas Yūhō Kirchner, Entangling Vines: Zen Koans of the Shūmon Kattōshū. [198–202]
741.
Ōtani Eiichi
Review of: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, Nihon no shakai sanka Bukkyō: Hōonji to Risshō Kōseikai no shakai katsudō to shakai rinri. [202–205]
742.
Van Bragt, Jan
Review of: Martin Repp, Hōnens religioses Denken. Eine Untersuchung zu Strukturen religioser Erneuerung. [205–208]
743.
Heisig, James W.
Review of: Steffen Döll, Wozu also suchen? Zur Einführung in das Denken von Ueda Shizuteru. [208–11]
744.
Yong, Amos
Review of: Kristin Beise Kiblinger, Buddhist Inclusivism: Attitudes towards Religious Others. [211–14]

2006, 33/2

Varieties of Pure Land Experience

Guest Editors: Galen Amstutz and Mark L. Blum

745. Amstutz, Galen, and Mark L. Blum
Editors’ Introduction: Pure Lands in Japanese Religion. [217–21]
746. Knecht, Peter
Ise sankei mandara and the Image of the Pure Land. [223–48]
747. Lee, William
Entering the Pure Land: Hanamatsuri and the Ōkagura Jōdo-iri Ritual of Okumikawa. [249–68]
748. Kimbrough, R. Keller
Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction. [269–96]
748a. Kimbrough, R. Keller
Translation: The Tale of the Fuji Cave. [Online only: 1–22]
749. Mack, Karen
The Phenomenon of Invoking Fudō for Pure Land Rebirth in Image and Text. [297–317]
750. Arichi, Meri
Sannō Miya Mandara: The Iconography of Pure Land on this Earth. [319–48]
751. Andreeva, Anna
Saidaiji Monks and Esoteric Kami Worship at Ise and Miwa. [349–77]
752. Yoshida, Tomoko
Kuroda Toshio (1926–1993) on Jōdo Shinshū: Problems in Modern Historiography. [379–412]
753. Dobbins, James
Review of: Richard K.Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka, eds., Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha. [413–18]
754. Swanson, Paul
Review of: D. Max Moerman, Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. [418–20]

2007, 34/1

Christians in Japan

Guest Editors: Mark R. Mullins and Peter Nosco

755. Mullins, Mark R., and Peter Nosco
Editors’ Introduction: Christians in Japan [1–7]
756. Kitagawa, Tomoko
The Conversion of Hideyoshi’s Daughter Gō [9–25]
757. Elisonas, J. S. A.
Journey to the West [27–66]
758. Costa, João Paulo Oliveira e
The Brotherhoods (Confrarias) and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan [67–84]
759. Nosco, Peter
The Experiences of Christians During the Underground Years and Thereafter [85–97]
760. Oshiro, George M.
Nitobe Inazō and the Sapporo Band: Reflections on the Dawn of Protestant Christianity in Early Meiji Japan [90–126]
761. Howes, John F.
Christian Prophecy in Japan: Uchimura Kanzō [127–150]
762. Nirei, Yosuke
Toward a Modern Belief: Modernist Protestantism and Problems of National Religion in Meiji Japan [151–175]
763. Ballhatchet, Helen
Christianity and Gender Relationships in Japan: Case Studies of Marriage and Divorce in Early Meiji Protestant Circles [177–201]
764. Anderson, Emily
Tamura Naoomi’s The Japanese Bride: Christianity, Nationalism, and Family in Meiji Japan [203–228]
765. Yoshida Ryo
Japanese Immigrants and their Christian Communities in North America: A Case Study of the Fukuinkai, 1877–1896 [229–244]
766. Howard, Yoshiko
Review of: John F. Howes, Japan’s Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzō [245–246]

2007, 34/2

767. Rhodes, Robert F.
Ōjōyōshū, Nihon Ōjō Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan [249–70]
768. Bathgate, Michael
Exemplary Lives: Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography [271–303]
769. Chilson, Clark
Eulogizing Kūya as More than a Nenbutsu Practitioner: A Study and Translation of the Kūyarui [304–27]
770. Blum, Mark L.
Biography as Scripture: Ōjōden in India, China, and Japan [328–50]
771. Meeks, Lori R.
In Her Likeness: Female Divinity and Leadership at Medieval Chūgūji [351–92]
772. Como, Michael
Horses, Dragons, and Disease in Nara Japan [393–415]
773. Fister, Patricia
Merōfu Kannon and Her Veneration in Zen and Imperial Circles in Seventeenth-Century Japan [416–42]
774. Fowler, Sherry
Review of: Gregory P. A. Levine, Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery [443–7]
775. Rhodes, Robert F.
Review of: James L. Ford, Jōkei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan [448–52]
776. Rowe, Mark
Review of: Stephen G. Covell, Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation [452–5]
777. Eubanks, Charlotte
Review of: William R. Lindsey. Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan [456–8]
778. Payne, Richard K.
Review of: Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen, ed., The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion [458–63]
779. Whelan, Christal
Review of: Richard K. Payne, ed., Tantric Buddhism in East Asia [463–7]
780. Ambros, Barbara
Review of: Maria Rodríguez del Alisal, Peter Ackerman, and Dolores P. Martinez, ed., Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan [467–70]
781. Yong, Amos
Review of: John P. Keenan, The Wisdom of James: Parallels with Mahāyāna Buddhism [470–4]
782. Yong, Amos
Review of: John D’Arcy May, Transcendence and Violence: The Encounter of Buddhist, Christian and Primal Traditions [474–7]

2008, 35/1

Japanese Religions in Brazil

Guest Editors: Rafael Shoji and Frank Usarski

Editors' Introduction: Japanese Religions in Brazil [1–12]
784. Shoji, Rafael
The Failed Prophecy of Shinto Nationalism and the Rise of Japanese Brazilian Catholicism [13–38]
785. Usarski, Frank
"The Last Missionary to Leave the Temple Should Turn Off the Light": Sociological Remarks on the Decline of Japanese "Immigrant" Buddhism [39–59]
786. de Albuquerque, Eduardo Basto
Intellectuals and Japanese Buddhism in Brazil [61–79]
787. Rocha, Cristina
All Roads Come from Zen: Busshinji as a Reference to Buddhism [81–94]
788. Pereira, Ronan Alves
The Transplantation of Soka Gakkai to Brazil: Building "the Closest Organization to the Heart of Ikeda-Sensei" [95–113]
789. Watanabe, Masako
The Development of Japanese New Religions in Brazil and Their Propagation in a Foreign Culture [115–144]
790. Nakamaki, Hirochika
Japanese Religions, Calendars, and Religious Culture in Brazil [145–159]
791. Matsue, Regina Yoshie
Review of: Ronan Alves Pereira and Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Religions in and Beyond the Japanese Diaspora [161–165]
792. Tomita, Andrea
Review of: Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Prayer below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity [166–170]
793. Usarski, Frank
Review of: Cristina Rocha, Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity [170–173]

2008, 35/2

794. Ahn, Juhn Y.
Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life: Labor, Exhaustion, and the Malady of Meditation [177–230]
795. Paramore, Kiri
Early Japanese Christian Thought Reexamined: Confucian Ethics, Catholic Authority, and the Issue of Faith in the Scholastic Theories of Habian, Gomez, and Ricci [231–262]
796. Klautau, Orion
Against the Ghosts of Recent Past: Meiji Scholarship and the Discourse on Edo-Period Buddhist Decadence [263–304]
797. Nelson, John
Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist “Ancestor Worship” with Home Décor and Consumer Choice [305–330]
798. Broder, Anne
Mahikari in Context: Kamigakari, Chinkon kishin, and Psychical Investigation in Ōmoto-lineage Religions [331–362]
799. Heine, Steven
Review article: A Day in the Life: Two Recent Works on Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō “Gyōji”
[Sustained Practice] Fascicle [363–372]
800. Watt, Paul B.
Review of: Helen Baroni, Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Ōbaku Zen Master Tetsugen Dōkō [373–375]
801. O'Leary, Joseph S.
Review of: Hee-Jin Kim, Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen [376–380]
802. Kimbrough, R. Keller
Review of: Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics [380–383]
803. Dorman, Benjamin
Review of: Nancy K. Stalker, Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan [384–387]
804. Reader, Ian
Review of: Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Kōyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha [387–390]
805. Maxey, Trent
Review of: John Breen, ed., Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan’s Past [390–393]
806. Anderson, Emily
Review of: John P. Hoffman, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun [394–397]
807. Molle, Andrea
Review of: Robert E. Carter, The Japanese Arts and Self-cultivation [397–400]
808. O'Leary, Joseph
Review of: John D’Arcy May, ed. Converging Ways: Conversion and Belonging in Buddhism and Christianity [400–402]

2009, 36/1

Helen Hardacre and the Study of Japanese Religion

Guest Editors: Barbara Ambros, Regan E. Murphy, Duncan Williams

Editors’ Introduction: Helen Hardacre and the Study of Japanese Religion [1-9]
The Development of the Temple-Parishioner System [11-26]
The Purple Robe Incident and the Formation of the Early Modern Sōtō Zen Institution [27-43]
Invitation to the Secret Buddha of Zenkōji: Kaichō and Religious Culture in Early Modern Japan [45-63]
Esoteric Buddhist Theories of Language in Early Kokugaku: The Sōshaku of the Man’yō daishōki [65-91]
State Shinto in the Lives of the People: The Establishment of Emperor Worship, Modern Nationalism,
and Shrine Shinto in Late Meiji [93-124]
The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei’s Zen Training with Korean Masters [125-165]
Researching Place, Emplacing the Researcher: Reflections on the Making of a Documentary on a Pilgrimage Confraternity [167-197]

2009, 36/2

Special issue: Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature

Guest Editors: Keller Kimbrough and Hank Glassman

Editors’ Introduction: Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature [201-208]
Illustrating the Mind: “Faulty Memory” Setsuwa and the Decorative Sutras of Late Classical and Early Medieval Japan [209-230]
Animating Objects: Tsukumogami ki and the Medieval Illustration of Shingon Truth [231-257]
Translation: Tsukumogami ki 付喪神記 (The Record of Tool Specters) [online only: 1-19]
Wine, Rice, or Both? Overwriting Sectarian Strife in the Tendai Shuhanron Debate [259-278]
Hachikazuki: Revealing Kannon’s Crowning Compassion in Muromachi Fiction [279-294]
Tonsuring the Performer: Image, Text, and Narrative in the Ballad-Drama Shizuka [295-317]
Officials of the Afterworld: Ono no Takamura and the Ten Kings of Hell in the Chikurinji engi Illustrated Scrolls [319-349]
Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination [351-380]
Review of: Jean-Noël Robert, La Centurie du Lotus. Poèmes de Jien (1155–1225) sur le Sūtra du Lotus [381-384]
Review of: Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter, eds. Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism [384-388]
Review of: Kenji Matsuo, A History of Japanese Buddhism [388-391]
Review of: Kiri Paramore, Ideology and Christianity in Japan [392-394]
Review of: Barbara Ambros, Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan [394-396]

2010, 37/1

Special issue: Religion and the Japanese Empire

Guest Editor: Richard M. Jaffe

Editor’s Introduction: Religion and the Japanese Empire [1-7]
Chinese Buddhism and the Anti-Japan War [9-20]
Shinto Deities that Crossed the Sea: Japan’s “Overseas Shrines,” 1868 to 1945 [21-46]
A Concept of “Overseas Shinto Shrines”: A Pantheistic Attempt by Ogasawara Shōzō and Its Limitations [47-74]
Han Yong’un (1879–1944) and Buddhist Reform in Colonial Korea [75-97]
“The Future of Korean Buddhism Lies in My Hands”: Takeda Hanshi as a Sōtō Missionary [99-135]
Beyond Big Events, Their Heroes, the Nation, and the Sect: A Review of Recent Books Published in Japanese on Premodern Japanese Religion (Part One) [137-152]
Review of: Shoji Yamada, Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen and the West [153-160]
Review of:Ruth Fuller Sasaki, translation and commentary, Thomas Yūhō Kirchner, ed., with forewords by Mumon Yamada and Kazuhiro Furuta, The Record of Linji [160-162]
Review of: R. Keller Kimbrough, Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan [163-167]
Review of: Dennis Hirota, Asura’s Harp: Engagement with Language as Buddhist Path [167-170]
Review of: Kenneth Doo Young Lee, The Prince and the Monk: Shōtoku Worship in Shinran’s Buddhism [170-172]
Review of: Hamish Ion, American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859–73 [172-175]
Review of: Marcello Ghilardi, na logica del vedere. Estetica ed etica nel pensiero di Nishida Kitarō [175-178]
Review of: Robert Wilkinson, Nishida and Western Philosophy [178-182]

2010, 37/2

The Land-Pulling Myth and Some Aspects of Historic Reality [185-222]
Changing the Calendar: Royal Political Theology and the Suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro Conspiracy of 757 [223-245]
Gods, Buddhas, and Organs: Buddhist Physicians and Theories of Longevity in Early Medieval Japan [247-273]
Dancing as if Possessed: A Coming Out Party in Edo Spirit Society [275-294]
Resurrecting the Sacred Land of Japan: The State of Shinto in the Twenty-First Century [295-315]
Geopolitical Mission Strategy: The Case of the Unification Church in Japan and Korea [317-334]
Social Behavior and Religious Consciousness among Shin Buddhist Practitioners [335-366]
Review article: Yes! We Have No Buddha-Nature: Three Recent Publications on Zen Dialogues [367-376]
Review of: Lori Meeks, Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan [377-380]
Review of: Cynthea J. Bogel, With A Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision [380-383]
Review of: Jinhua Chen, Legend and Legitimation: The Formation of Tendai Esoteric Buddhism in Japan [383-385]
Review of: John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, A New History of Shinto [385-388]
Review of: Bernard Faure, Michael Como, Iyanaga Nobumi (eds.), Rethinking Medieval Shintō/Respenser le shintō medieval [389-394]
Review of: Haruko Nawata Ward, Women Religious Leaders in Japan’s Christian Century, 1549–1650 [394-396]
Review of: Jane Naomi Iwamura, Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture [397-399]
Review of: Isomae Jun’ichi, Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture [400-402]
Review of: Shugendō Now; Where mountains fly; Shugen Haguro-san Aki no Mine (Three Shugendō documentaries)[]

2011, 38/1

Discourses of the Reappearing: The Reenactment of the “Cloth-Bridge Consecration Rite” at Mt. Tateyama [1-54]
Redesigning the Death Rite and Redesignating the Tomb: The Separation of Kami and Buddhist Deities at the Mortuary Site for Emperor Antoku [55-92]
Pieces of Princes: Personalized Relics in Medieval Japan [93-127]
Who Speaks for Norinaga? Kokugaku Leadership in Nineteenth-Century Japan [129-159]
The Yuima-e as Theater of the State [161-179]
Beyond the Dark Valley: Reinterpreting Christian Reactions to the 1939 Religious Organizations Law [181-211]
Review of: Urs App, The Birth of Orientalism [213-216]
Review of: Michael Como, Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan [216-219]
Review of: Tanigawa Yutaka, Meiji zenki no kyōiku, kyōka, Bukkyō [220-222]
Review of: Peter Suares, The Kyoto School’s Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit [223-226]
Review of: François Lachaud, Le vieil homme qui vendait du thé: Excentricité et retrait du monde dans le Japon du XVIIIe siècle [226-228]
Review of: Frédéric Girard, Vocabulaire du bouddhisme japonais, Tome I-Tome II [228-230]