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JJRS Volume 48:1 (2021)
- Castiglioni, Andrea
  
  The Human-Fish: Animality, Teratology, and Religion in Premodern Japan [1–44]
- Rambelli, Fabio
  
  The Dharma of Music: Gagaku and Buddhist Salvation in Medieval Japan [45–71]
- Sherer, Dan
  
  An Amenable Arrangement: The Unification of the Nichiren Sect in Sixteenth-Century Kyoto [73–102]
- Huang Xiaolong
  
  Authority and Competition: Shingon Buddhist Monastic Communities in Medieval Japanese Regional Society [103–123]
- Teeuwen, Mark
  
  Faith as Authenticity: Kyoto’s Gion Festival in 2020 [125–163]
- Grapard, Allan G.
  
  Japanese Food Offerings [165–185]
- Suter, Rebecca
  
  Review of: Fumiaki Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen, eds. Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident [187–189]
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Review of: Ōtani Eiichi 大谷栄一, Nichirenshugi to wa nan datta no ka: Kindai Nihon no shisō suimyaku 日蓮主義とはなんだったのか―近代日本の思想水脈 [189–194]
- Kobayashi Naoko
  
  Review of: Niwa Nobuko 丹羽宣子, “Sōryorashisa” to “joseirashisa” no shūkyō shakaigaku: Nichirenshū josei sōryo no jirei kara 「僧侶らしさ」と「女性らしさ」の宗教社会学—日蓮宗女性僧侶の事例から [194–197]
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Michael Pye, ed., Exploring Shinto [198–201]
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Brian Daizen Victoria, Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin [202–205]
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: James Mark Shields, Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan [205–209]
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Rafal K. Stepien, ed., Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature [209–213]
- Table of Contents and Contributors
JJRS Volume 47:1 (2020)
- McMullen, Matthew D.
  
  Editor's Introduction: Esoteric Buddhist Traditions in Medieval Japan [1–10]
- Andreeva, Anna
  
  Buddhist Temple Networks in Medieval Japan: Daigoji, Mt. Kōya, and the Miwa Lineage [11–41]
- Bushelle, Ethan
  
  The Mountain as Mandala: Kūkai’s Founding of Mt. Kōya [43–83]
- Kameyama Takahiko
  
  The Doctrinal Origins of Embryology in the Shingon School [85–102]
- Rappo, Gaétan
  
  “Deviant Teachings”: The Tachikawa Lineage as a Moving Concept in Japanese Buddhism [103–133]
- Proffitt, Aaron P.
  
  Nenbutsu Orthodoxies in Medieval Japan [135–160]
- Park, Yeonjoo
  
  The Making of an Esoteric Deity: Sannō Discourse in the Keiran shūyōshū [161–176]
- Trenson, Steven
  
  Review of: Gaétan Rappo, Rhétoriques de l’hérésie dans le Japon médiéval et moderne: Le moine Monkan (1278–1357) et sa réputation posthume [177–182]
- Porath, Or
  
  Review of: Anna Andreeva, Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan [183–185]
- Table of Contents and Contributors
JJRS Volume 47:2 (2020)
- Adolphson, Mikael S.
  
  Myōun and the Heike: Monastic Influence in Twelfth-Century Japan [189–223]
- Ng, Wai-ming
  
  The Shintoization of Mazu in Tokugawa Japan [225–246]
- Strathern, Alan
  
  Immanent Power and Empirical Religiosity: Conversion of the Daimyo of Kyushu, 1560–1580 [247–278]
- Duró, Ágota
  
  Historical Counter-Narratives: Japanese Christians’ Advocacy for South Korean Atomic Bomb Victims [279–303]
- Steineck, Tomoë I. M.
  
  Kanda Sōtei: The Shogun’s Sacred Painters and their Realm of Influence [305–340]
- Morrow, Avery
  
  Review article: The Inaw of Ishikawa: Ainu Religious Implements in Japanese Shrines and Temples [341–351]
- LeFebvre, Jesse R.
  
  Review of: James C. Dobbins, Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons [353–358]
- Mitchell, Matthew
  
  Review of: Jessica Starling, Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū [358–363]
- Huges, April D.
  
  Review of: Takashi Miura, Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan [363–366]
- Table of contents and Contributors
JJRS Volume 46:1 (2019)
- Shimizu, Karli
  
  Religion and Secularism in Overseas Shinto Shrines: A Case Study on Hilo Daijingū, 1898–1941 [1–29]
- Gillson, Gwendolyn
  
  Traversing the Nenbutsu: The Power of Ritual in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism [31–51]
- Joskovich, Erez
  
  Relying on Words and Letters: Scripture Recitation in the Japanese Rinzai Tradition [53–78]
- Fujitani, James
  
  The Jesuit Hospital in the Religious Context of Sixteenth-Century Japan [79–101]
- Klonos, George
  
  The Robe of Leaves: A Nineteenth-Century Text of Shugendo Apologetics [103–128]
- Inoue Nobutaka
  
  Research note: Violence and How to Recognize Perceptual Bias: Reflections on Twenty Years of Research [129–136]
- Davin, Didier
  
  Review of: Frédéric Girard, Les dialogues de Dōgen en Chine [137–139]
- Kato, Masato
  
  Review of: Mitsutoshi Horii, The Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan: Shūkyō and Temple Buddhism [140–144]
- Petersen, Esben
  
  Review of: Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of Human Sciences [145–147]
- Table of contents and contributors
JJRS Volume 46:2 (2019)
- Donnere, Alīse Eishō
  
  Finding a Place for Jizō: A Study of Jizō Statuary in the Buddhist Temples of Sendai [151–172]
- Ingram, Evan S.
  
  Chōgen’s Vision of Tōdaiji’s Great Buddha as Both Mahāvairocana and Amitābha [173–192]
- Lyons, Adam
  
  From Marxism to Religion: Thought Crimes and Forced Conversions in Imperial Japan [193–218]
- Clements, Frank
  
  The Fall Peak, Professional Culture, and Document Production in Early Modern Haguro Shugendo [219–245]
- Zheng, Aihua
  
  Buddhist Networks: The Japanese Preparation for the World’s Parliament of Religions, 1892–1893 [247–275]
- Torrance, Richard
  
  Ōnamochi: The Great God who Created All Under Heaven [277–317]
- Tanabe, George
  
  Review of: Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War [319–322]
- Prohl, Inken
  
  Review of: Erica Baffelli and Ian Reader, Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese ‘New’ Religion: Transformations and the Founder [323–325]
- Craig III, Ralph H.
  
  Review of: Richard K. Payne, Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of Mantra [325–329]
- Conway, Michael
  
  Review of: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination [329–332]
- Morris, James Harry
  
  Review of: Levi McLaughlin, Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan [332–335]
- Bushelle, Ethan
  
  Review of: Edward R. Drott, Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan [336–339]
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Notes on Recent Edited Volumes on Japanese Religions [340–344]
- table of contents and contributors
JJRS Volume 45:1 (2018)
- Bushelle, Ethan
  
  Mountain Buddhism and the Emergence of a Buddhist Cosmic Imaginary in Ancient Japan [1–36]
- Kotyk, Jeffrey
  
  Japanese Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic: Mikkyō and Sukuyōdō [37–86]
- Licha, Stephan Kigensan
  
  Separate Teaching and Separate Transmission: Kokan Shiren’s Zen Polemics [87–124]
- Stavros, Matthew and Tomishima Yoshiyuki
  
  The Shōkokuji Pagoda: Building the Infrastructure of Buddhist Kingship in Medieval Japan [125–144]
- Carter, Caleb
  
  Power Spots and the Charged Landscape of Shinto [145–173]
- Benedict, Timothy O.
  
  Practicing Spiritual Care in the Japanese Hospice [175–199]
- Heller, Natasha
  
  Review of: Gregory P. A. Levine, Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments [201–203]
- Petersen, Esben
  
  Review of: Betsy C. Perabo, Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War [204–206]
- Yang, Haewon
  
  Review of: Jennifer McWeeny and Ashby Butnor, eds., Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions [206–208]
- Green, Ronald S.
  
  Review of: Bryan D. Lowe, Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan [209–211]
- table of contents and contributors
JJRS Volume 45:2 (2018)
- Hirasawa, Caroline and Benedetta Lomi
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Modest Materialities: The Social Lives and Afterlives of Sacred Things in Japan [217–225]
- Lomi, Benedetta
  
  Ox Bezoars and the Materiality of Heian-period Therapeutics [227–268]
- Trenson, Steven
  
  Rice, Relics, and Jewels: The Network and Agency of Rice Grains in Medieval Japanese Esoteric Buddhism [269–307]
- Quinter, David
  
  Mantras and Materialities: Saidaiji Order Kōmyō Shingon Practices [309–340]
- Hirasawa, Caroline
  
  The Materiality of a Promise: Interworldly Contracts in Medieval Buddhist Promotional Campaign Imagery [341–390]
- Ouchi Fumi
  
  Musical Toys Offered to Gods at Miho Shrine: Instruments for Renewing Ritual Communication [391–422]
- Gygi, Fabio R.
  
  Things that Believe: Talismans, Amulets, Dolls, and How to Get Rid of Them [423–452]
- Saka Chihiro
  
  Review of: Sherry D. Fowler, Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan [453–457]
- Cheung, Kin
  
  Review of: G. Clinton Godart, Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan [458–460]
- Kubovčáková, Zuzana
  
  Review of: Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine, eds., Zen and Material Culture [460–463]
- table of contents and contributors
JJRS Volume 44:1 (2017)
- Kawahashi Noriko and Kobayashi Naoko
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Gendering Religious Practices In Japan: Multiple Voices, Multiple Strategies [1–13]
- Inose Yuri
  
  Gender and New Religions in Modern Japan [15–35]
- Miki Mei
  
  A Church with Newly-Opened Doors: The Ordination of Women Priests in the Anglican-Episcopal Church of Japan [37–54]
- Kawahashi Noriko
  
  Women Challenging the “Celibate” Buddhist Order: Recent Cases of Progress and Regress in the Sōtō School [55–74]
- Rowe, Mark
  
  Charting Known Territory: Female Buddhist Priests [75–101]
- Kobayashi Naoko
  
  Sacred Mountains and Women in Japan: Fighting a Romanticized Image of Female Ascetic Practitioners [103–122]
- Komatsu Kayoko
  
  Spirituality and Women in Japan [123–138]
- Kudō Marie
  
  Review Article: Lesbian Identities [139–145]
- Kuroki Masako
  
  Review of: Barbara R. Ambros, Women in Japanese Religions [147–149]
- Muruyama, Yumi
  
  Review of: Paola Cavaliere, Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society [149–154]
- Kobayashi Naoko
  
  Review of: Odaira Mika, Josei shinshoku no kindai: Jingi girei, gyōsei ni okeru saishisha no kenkyū [154–158]
- TABLE OF CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
JJRS Volume 44:2 (2017)
- Keyworth, George A.
  
  Copying for the Kami The Manuscript Set of the Buddhist Canon held by Matsuno’o Shrine [161–190]
- Saka Chihiro
  
  Bridging the Realms of Underworld and Pure Land An Examination of Datsueba’s Roles in the Zenkōji Pilgrimage Mandala [191–223]
- Miura, Takashi
  
  The Buddha in Yoshiwara Religion and Visual Entertainment in Tokugawa Japan as Seen through Kibyōshi [225–254]
- Imazato Satoshi
  
  Spatial Structures of Japanese Hidden Christian Organizations on Hirado Island A Comparative Study of Three Villages and Ikitsuki Island [255–279]
- Huang Yueh-po
  
  Pilgrimage, Modernity, Tourism, and Nostalgia Tenrikyō’s Ojibagaeri in Post-colonial Taiwan [281–307]
- DeWitt, Lindsey E.
  
  Review article: Shugendo and Kyushu [309–316]
- Roth, Carina
  
  Review article: Religion, Society, and Environment in a Kyushu Village [317–324]
- Teeuwen, Mark
  
  Review article: Izumo, Ise, and Modern Shinto [325–332]
- Park, Yeonjoo
  
  Review of: Jacqueline I. Stone, Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan [333–337]
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Donald S. Lopez, Jr., The Lotus Sutra: A Biography [337–339]
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  In memoriam: James David Reid (1927–2017) [341–343]
- Table of Contents and Contributors
JJRS Volume 43:1 (2016)
- Ambros, Barbara R., James L. Ford, and Michaela Mross
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Kōshiki in Japanese Buddhism [ 1–15]
- Quinter, David
  
  Materializing and Performing Prajñā: Jōkei’s Mañjuśrī Faith and the Kasagidera Restoration [17–54]
- Jamentz, Michael E.
  
  The Buddhist Affirmation of Poetry and Locating a Thirteenth-century Fugen kōshiki in Liturgical Literature [55–88]
- Mross, Michaela
  
  Vocalizing the Lament over the Buddha’s Passing: A Study of Myōe’s Shiza kōshiki [89–130]
- Meeks, Lori
  
  Imagining Rāhula in Medieval Japan: The Raun kōshiki [131–151]
- Guelberg, Niels
  
  Jingi kōshiki: A Neglected Field of Study [153–175]
- Callahan, Christopher
  
  Recognizing the Founder, Seeing Amida Buddha: Kakunyo’s Hōon kōshiki [177–205]
- Ambros, Barbara
  
  A Rite of Their Own: Japanese Buddhist Nuns and the Anan kōshiki [207–250]
- Quinter, David
  
  Online supplement 1: Jōkei’s Monju Kōshiki in Five Parts (c. 1196) [1–17]
- Mross, Michaela
  
  Online supplement 2: Myōe’s Nehan kōshiki: An Annotated Translation [1–20]
- Ambros, Barbara
  
  Online supplement 3: Anan kōshiki: An Annotated Translation [1–24]
- Table of Contents and Contributors
JJRS Volume 43:2 (2016)
- Ama, Michihiro
  
  Shinran as “Other”: Revisiting Kurata Hyakuzō’s The Priest and His Disciples [253–274]
- Shultz, John A.
  
  The Way to Gyō: Priestly Asceticism on the Shikoku Henro [275–305]
- Moto-Sanchez, Milla Micka
  
  Jizō, Healing Rituals, and Women in Japan [307–331]
- Greene, Barbara
  
  Furusato and Emotional Pilgrimage: Ge Ge Ge no Kitarō and Sakaiminato [333–356]
- Yong, Amos
  
  Many Tongues, Many Buddhisms in a Pluralistic World: A Christian Interpretation at the Interreligious Crossroads [357–376]
- Keyworth, George A.
  
  Review of: Jiang Wu, Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan & the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia [377–383]
- Kim, Sujung
  
  Review of: Barbara Ambros, Women in Japanese Religions [384–386]
- Villani, Paolo
  
  Review of: Gustav Heldt, The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters [387–389]
- Kopf, Gereon
  
  Review of: John W. M. Krummel, Nishida Kitarō’s Chiasmatic Chorology: Place of Dialectic and Dialectic of Place [390–395]
- Rodríguez, Francisco J. López
  
  Review of: Eriko Ogihara-Schuck,Miyazaki’s Animism Abroad: The Reception of Japanese Religious Themes by American and German Audiences [396–400]
- TABLE OF CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
JJRS Volume 42:1 (2015)
- Blair, Heather, and Kawasaki Tsuyoshi
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Engi: Forging Accounts of Sacred Origins
- Abé, Ryūichi
  
  Revisiting the Dragon Princess: Her Role in Medieval Engi Stories and Their Implications in Reading the Lotus Sutra
- Moerman, D. Max
  
  The Buddha and the Bathwater: Defilement and Enlightenment in the Onsenji engi
- Yoshida Kazuhiko
  
  The Credibility of the Gangōji engi
- Goodwin, Janet R., and Kevin Wilson
  
  Memories and Strategic Silence in Jōdoji engi
- Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi
  
  The Invention and Reception of the Mino’odera engi
- Takagishi Akira
  
  The Reproduction of Engi and Memorial Offerings: Multiple Generations of the Ashikaga Shoguns and the Yūzū nenbutsu engi emaki
JJRS Volume 42:2 (2015)
- LeFebvre, Jesse R.
  
  Christian Wedding Ceremonies: “Nonreligiousness” in Contemporary Japan [185–203]
- Rots, Aike P.
  
  Sacred Forests, Sacred Nation: The Shinto Environmentalist Paradigm and the Rediscovery of Chinju no Mori [205–233]
- Godart, G. Clinton
  
  Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity: Rethinking Ishiwara Kanji’s East Asia League Movement [235–274]
- Drott, Edward R.
  
  “To Tread on High Clouds”: Dreams of Eternal Youth in Early Japan [275–317]
- Joskovich, Erez Hekigan
  
  The Inexhaustible Lamp of Faith: Faith and Awakening in the Japanese Rinzai Tradition [319–338]
- Kory, Stephan N.
  
  From Deer Bones to Turtle Shells: The State Ritualization of Pyro-Plastromancy during the Nara-Heian Transition [339–380]
- Green, Ronald S.
  
  Review of: William E. Deal and Brian Ruppert, A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism [381–385]
- Thumas, Jonathan
  
  Review of: Heather Blair, Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan [385–391]
- Rots, Aike P.
  
  Review of: Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death [392–395]
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Robert Magliola, Facing Up to Real Doctrinal Difference: How Some Thought-Motifs from Derrida can Nourish the Catholic-Buddhist Encounter [395–398]
JJRS Volume 41:1 (2014)
- Groner, Paul, and Jacqueline I. Stone
  
  Editors’ Introduction: The Lotus Sutra in Japan
- Kitagawa Zenchō
  
  The Words of the Lotus Sutra in Nichiren’s Thought
- Asai Endō
  
  The Lotus Sutra as the Core of Japanese Buddhism: Shifts in Representations of its Fundamental Principle
- Kikuchi Hiroki
  
  Ōjōden, the Hokke genki, and Mountain Practices of Devotees of the Sutra
- Ōkubo Ryōshun
  
  The Identity between the Purport of the Perfect and Esoteric Teachings
- Groner, Paul
  
  The Lotus Sutra and the Perfect-Sudden Precepts
- Minowa Kenryō
  
  The Tendai Debates of 1131 at Hosshōji
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  The Atsuhara Affair: The Lotus Sutra, Persecution, and Religious Identity in the Early Nichiren Tradition
- Covell, Stephen G.
  
  Interfaith Dialogue and a Lotus Practitioner: Yamada Etai, the Lotus Sutra, and the Religious Summit Meeting on Mt. Hiei
JJRS Volume 41:2 (2014)
- Lowe, Bryan D.
  
  Contingent and Contested: Preliminary Remarks on Buddhist Catalogs and Canons in Early Japan
- Lowe, Bryan D.
  
  Appendix: Chart of Various Hīnayāna Scriptures in Two Catalogs
- Lomi, Benedetta
  
  Dharanis, Talismans, and Straw-Dolls Ritual Choreographies and Healing Strategies of the Rokujikyōhō in Medieval Japan
- Holt, Jon
  
  Ticket to Salvation Nichiren Buddhism in Miyazawa Kenji’s Ginga tetsudō no yoru
- Groemer, Gerald
  
  Who Benefits? Religious Practice, Blind Women (Goze), Harugoma, and Manzai
- Heine, Steven
  
  Review Article: Ishii Shūdō’s Contributions to Dōgen Studies Examining Chinese Influences on the Kana and Kanbun Texts
- Mitchell, Matthew
  
  Review of: Gina Cogan, The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan
- Lee, William
  
  Review of: R. Keller Kimbrough, trans., Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
- Swanson, Eric
  
  Review of: Pamela D. Winfield, Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment
- Dahl, Shayne A. P.
  
  Review of: Tullio Federico Lobetti, Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion
- Plasencia, Girardo Rodriguez
  
  Review of: Ugo Dessì, Japanese Religions and Globalization
- Staemmler, Birgit
  
  Review of: Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer, Kaminchu: Spirituelle Heilerinnen in Okinawa
JJRS Volume 40:1 (2013)
- Hayashi Makoto and Matthias Hayek
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Onmyodo in Japanese History
- Masuo Shin’ichirō
  
  Chinese Religion and the Formation of Onmyōdō
- Bender, Ross
  
  Auspicious Omens in the Reign of the Last Empress of Nara Japan, 749–770
- Shigeta Shin’ichi
  
  A Portrait of Abe no Seimei
- Pang, Carolyn
  
  Uncovering Shikigami: The Search for the Spirit Servant of Onmyōdō
- Yanagihara Toshiaki
  
  Onmyōdō in the Muromachi Period
- Hayashi Makoto
  
  The Development of Early Modern Onmyōdō
- Hayek, Matthias
  
  Correcting the Old, Adapting the New: Baba Nobutake and the (Relative) Rejuvenation of Divination in the Seventeenth Century
- Sawa Hirokatsu
  
  Review of: Umeda Chihiro 梅田千尋, Kinsei Onmyōdō soshiki no kenkyū　近世陰陽道組織の研究 [Research on early modern Onmyōdō organization]
- Hayek, Matthias
  
  Review of: Hosoi Hiroshi 細井浩志, Kodai no tenmon ihen to shisho [Official chronicles and astronomical anomalies of ancient Japan]
- Hayashi Makoto
  
  Review of: Komatsu Kazuhiko 小松和彦, Izanagi-ryū no kenkyū: Rekishi no naka no Izanagi-ryu tayū いざなぎ流の研究―歴史のなかのいざなぎ流太夫. [Studies on Izanagi-ryū: A historical survey of Izanagi-ryū tayū]
JJRS Volume 40:2 (2013)
- Gunji, Naoko
  
  The Ritual Narration of Mortuary Art: The Illustrated Story of Emperor Antoku and Its Etoki at Amidaji
- Dumas, Raechel
  
  Historicizing Japan’s Abject Femininity: Reading Women’s Bodies in Nihon ryōiki
- Starling, Jessica
  
  Neither Nun nor Laywoman: The Good Wives and Wise Mothers of Jōdo Shinshū Temples
- Meynard, Thierry, s.j.
  
  The Overlooked Connection between Ricci’s Tianzhu shiyi and Valignano’s Catechismus Japonensis
- McGuire, Mark Patrick
  
  What’s at Stake in Designating Japan’s Sacred Mountains as unesco World Heritage Sites? Shugendo Practices in the Kii Peninsula
- Ruppert, Brian
  
  Constructing Histories, Thinking Ritual Gatherings, and Rereading “Native” Religion: A Review of Recent Books Published in Japanese on Premodern Japanese Religion (Part Two)
- Reader, Ian
  
  Review of: Inken Prohl and John Nelson, eds., Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions
- Thumas, Jonathan
  
  Review of: H. Byron Earhart, Religion in Japan: Unity and Diversity
- Ruppert, Brian
  
  Review of: Thomas Donald Conlan, From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan
- Ambros, Barbara
  
  Review of: Franz Winter, Hermes und Buddha: Die neureligiöse Bewegung Kōfuku no kagaku in Japan
- Harding , Christopher
  
  Review of: James W. Heisig, Nothingness and Desire: An East-West Philosophical Antiphony
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Review of: Haruko Wakabayashi, The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
- García, Raquel Bouso
  
  Review of: Agustín Jacinto Zavala, ed., Alternativas filosóficas. Investigaciones recientes sobre Nishida Kitarō, fundador de la Escuela de Kioto
JJRS Volume 39:1 (2012)
- Baffelli, Erica, and Ian Reader
  
  Editors’ Introduction. Impact and Ramifications: The Aftermath of the Aum Affair in the Japanese Religious Context
- Dorman, Benjamin
  
  Scholarly Reactions to the Aum and Waco Incidents
- Thomas, Jolyon Baraka
  
  Horrific “Cults” and Comic Religion Manga after Aum
- Mullins, Mark R.
  
  The Neo-Nationalist Response to the Aum Crisis
- Klein, Axel
  
  Twice Bitten, Once Shy: Religious Organizations and Politics after the Aum Attack
- McLaughlin, Levi
  
  Did Aum Change Everything? What Soka Gakkai Before, During, and After the Aum Shinrikyo Affair Tells Us About the Persistent “Otherness” of New Religions in Japan
- Baffelli, Erica
  
  Hikari no Wa: A New Religion Recovering from Disaster
- Reader, Ian
  
  Globally Aum: The Aum Affair, Counterterrorism, and Religion
JJRS Volume 39:2 (2012)
- Lowe, Bryan D.
  
  The Discipline of Writing Scribes and Purity in Eighth-Century Japan
- Sango, Asuka
  
  Buddhist Debate and the Production and Transmission of Shōgyō in Medieval Japan
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Battling Tengu, Battling Conceit Visualizing Abstraction in The Tale of the Handcart Priest
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Online translation: The Tale of the Handcart Priest
- Baskind, James
  
  “The Matter of the Zen School”: Fukansai Habian’s Myōtei mondō and His Christian Polemic on Buddhism
- Shields, James Mark
  
  A Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution: The Radical Buddhism of Seno’o Girō (1889–1961) and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism
- Gaitanidis, Ioannis
  
  Spiritual Therapies in Japan
- Pinto, Victoria Rose
  
  Review of: Mark Michael Rowe, Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
- Yusa, Michiko
  
  Review of: Sakai Naoki 酒井直樹 and Isomae Jun’ichi 磯前順一 , eds., Overcoming Modernity and the Kyoto School: Modernity, Empire, and Universality 『「近代の超克」と京都学派 —近代性、帝国、普遍性』
- Nakano Tsuyoshi
  
  Review of: Benjamin Dorman, Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan
- Reid, David
  
  In memoriam: Jan Swyngedouw (1935–2012)
JJRS Volume 38:1 (2011)
- Averbuch, Irit
  
  Discourses of the Reappearing: The Reenactment of the “Cloth-Bridge Consecration Rite” at Mt. Tateyama
- Gunji, Naoko
  
  Redesigning the Death Rite and Redesignating the Tomb: The Separation of Kami and Buddhist Deities at the Mortuary Site for Emperor Antoku
- Carr, Kevin Gray
  
  Pieces of Princes: Personalized Relics in Medieval Japan
- McNally, Mark
  
  Who Speaks for Norinaga? Kokugaku Leadership in Nineteenth-Century Japan
- Bauer, Mikaël
  
  The Yuima-e as Theater of the State
- Krämer, Hans Martin
  
  Beyond the Dark Valley: Reinterpreting Christian Reactions to the 1939 Religious Organizations Law
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Urs App, The Birth of Orientalism
- Thal, Sarah
  
  Review of: Michael Como, Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan
- Klautau, Orion
  
  Review of: Tanigawa Yutaka, Meiji zenki no kyōiku, kyōka, Bukkyō
- Schultz, Lucy
  
  Review of: Peter Suares, The Kyoto School’s Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: François Lachaud, Le vieil homme qui vendait du thé: Excentricité et retrait du monde dans le Japon du XVIIIe siècle
- Uehara, Mayuko
  
  Review of: Frédéric Girard, Vocabulaire du bouddhisme japonais, Tome I-Tome II
JJRS Volume 38:2 (2011)
- Groner, Paul
  
  Training Through Debates in Medieval Tendai and Seizan-ha Temples
- Quinter, David
  
  Invoking the Mother of Awakening An Investigation of Jokei's and Eison’s Monju koshiki
- Groemer, Gerald
  
  Tamura Hachidayu and the “Masters of Sacred Dance'
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: James Mark Shields, Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought
- Tanaka, Kenneth K.
  
  Review of: Duncan Ryuken Williams and Tomoe Moriya, eds., Issei Buddhism in the Americas
- Amstutz, Galen
  
  Review of: Michihiro Ama, Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Bernard Faure, D. Max Moerman, and Gaynor Sekimori, eds., Cahiers d'Extreme-Asie, N。18, 2009: Shugendō: I'histoire et la culture drune religion japonaise
- Arisaka Yōko
  
  Review of: James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, eds., Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook
- Kuroki Masako
  
  A Hybrid Form of Spirituality and the Challenge of a Dualistic Gender Role: The Spiritual Quest of a Woman Priest in Tendai Buddhism
- Hayek, Matthias
  
  The Eight Trigrams and Their Changes: An Inquiry into Japanese Early Modern Divination
JJRS Volume 37:1 (2010)
- Jaffe, Richard
  
  Editor’s Introduction: Religion and the Japanese Empire
- Sueki Fumihiko
  
  Chinese Buddhism and the Anti-Japan War
- Nakajima Michio
  
  Shinto Deities that Crossed the Sea: Japan’s “Overseas Shrines,” 1868 to 1945
- Suga, Kōji
  
  A Concept of “Overseas Shinto Shrines”: A Pantheistic Attempt by Ogasawara Shōzō and Its Limitations
- Hur, Nam-lin
  
  Han Yong’un (1879–1944) and Buddhist Reform in Colonial Korea
- Kim Hwansoo
  
  “The Future of Korean Buddhism Lies in My Hands”: Takeda Hanshi as a Sōtō Missionary
- Ruppert, Brian
  
  Beyond Big Events, Their Heroes, the Nation, and the Sect: A Review of Recent Books Published in Japanese on Premodern Japanese Religion (Part One)
- Hori, Victor Sōgen
  
  Review of: Shoji Yamada, Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen and the West
- Schlütter, Morten
  
  Review of:Ruth Fuller Sasaki, translation and commentary, Thomas Yūhō Kirchner, ed., with forewords by Mumon Yamada and Kazuhiro Furuta, The Record of Linji
- Deal, William E.
  
  Review of: R. Keller Kimbrough, Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Dennis Hirota, Asura’s Harp: Engagement with Language as Buddhist Path
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Kenneth Doo Young Lee, The Prince and the Monk: Shōtoku Worship in Shinran’s Buddhism
- Hommes, Jim
  
  Review of: Hamish Ion, American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859–73
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Marcello Ghilardi, La logica del vedere. Estetica ed etica nel pensiero di Nishida Kitarō
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Robert Wilkinson, Nishida and Western Philosophy
JJRS Volume 37:2 (2010)
- Carlqvist, Anders
  
  The Land-Pulling Myth and Some Aspects of Historic Reality
- Bender, Ross
  
  Changing the Calendar: Royal Political Theology and the Suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro Conspiracy of 757
- Drott, Edward R.
  
  Gods, Buddhas, and Organs: Buddhist Physicians and Theories of Longevity in Early Medieval Japan
- Hansen, Wilburn
  
  Dancing as if Possessed: A Coming Out Party in Edo Spirit Society
- Breen, John
  
  Resurrecting the Sacred Land of Japan: The State of Shinto in the Twenty-First Century
- Sakurai Yoshihide
  
  Geopolitical Mission Strategy: The Case of the Unification Church in Japan and Korea
- Dessi, Ugo
  
  Social Behavior and Religious Consciousness among Shin Buddhist Practitioners
- Heine, Steven
  
  Review article: Yes! We Have No Buddha-Nature: Three Recent Publications on Zen Dialogues
- Londo, William
  
  Review of: Lori Meeks, Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
- Swanson, Eric
  
  Review of: Cynthea J. Bogel, With A Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Jinhua Chen, Legend and Legitimation: The Formation of Tendai Esoteric Buddhism in Japan
- Lande, Aasulv
  
  Review of: John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, A New History of Shinto
- Teeuwen, Mark
  
  Review of: Bernard Faure, Michael Como, Iyanaga Nobumi (eds.), Rethinking Medieval Shintō/Respenser le shintō medieval
- Hommes, Jim
  
  Review of: Haruko Nawata Ward, Women Religious Leaders in Japan’s Christian Century, 1549–1650
- Pak, Su Yon
  
  Review of: Jane Naomi Iwamura, Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture
- Maxey, Trent
  
  Review of: Isomae Jun’ichi, Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Shugendō Now; Where mountains fly; Shugen Haguro-san Aki no Mine (Three Shugendō documentaries)
JJRS Volume 36:1 (2009)
- Ambros, Barbara and Duncan Williams with Regan E. Murphy
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Helen Hardacre and the Study of Japanese Religion
- Tamamuro Fumio
  
  The Development of the Temple-Parishioner System
- Williams, Duncan
  
  The Purple Robe Incident and the Formation of the Early Modern Sōtō Zen Institution
- Hur, Nam-lin
  
  Invitation to the Secret Buddha of Zenkōji: Kaichō and Religious Culture in Early Modern Japan
- Murphy, Regan E.
  
  Esoteric Buddhist Theories of Language in Early Kokugaku: The Sōshaku of the Man’yō daishōki
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  State Shinto in the Lives of the People: The Establishment of Emperor Worship, Modern Nationalism, and Shrine Shinto in Late Meiji
- Kim Hwansoo
  
  The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei’s Zen Training with Korean Masters
- Ambros, Barbara
  
  Researching Place, Emplacing the Researcher: Reflections on the Making of a Documentary on a Pilgrimage Confraternity
JJRS Volume 36:2 (2009)
- Kimbrough, R. Keller, and Hank Glassman
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature
- Eubanks, Charlotte
  
  Illustrating the Mind: “Faulty Memory” Setsuwa and the Decorative Sutras of Late Classical and Early Medieval Japan
- Reider, Noriko T.
  
  Animating Objects: Tsukumogami ki and the Medieval Illustration of Shingon Truth
- Reider, Noriko T.
  
  Translation: Tsukumogami ki 付喪神記 (The Record of Tool Specters) [online only: 1-19]
- Takeshi Watanabe
  
  Wine, Rice, or Both? Overwriting Sectarian Strife in the Tendai Shuhanron Debate
- Dix, Monika
  
  Hachikazuki: Revealing Kannon’s Crowning Compassion in Muromachi Fiction
- Elizabeth Oyler
  
  Tonsuring the Performer: Image, Text, and Narrative in the Ballad-Drama Shizuka
- Wakabayashi, Haruko
  
  Officials of the Afterworld: Ono no Takamura and the Ten Kings of Hell in the Chikurinji engi Illustrated Scrolls
- Moerman, D. Max
  
  Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Jean-Noël Robert, La Centurie du Lotus. Poèmes de Jien (1155–1225) sur le Sūtra du Lotus
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Review of: Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter, eds. Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
- Rhodes, Robert F.
  
  Review of: Kenji Matsuo, A History of Japanese Buddhism
- Nosco, Peter
  
  Review of: Kiri Paramore, Ideology and Christianity in Japan
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Barbara Ambros, Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan
JJRS Volume 35:1 (2008)
- Shoji, Rafael and Frank Usarski
  
  Editors' Introduction: Japanese Religions in Brazil
- Shoji, Rafael
  
  The Failed Prophecy of Shinto Nationalism and the Rise of Japanese Brazilian Catholicism
- Usarski, Frank
  
  "The Last Missionary to Leave the Temple Should Turn Off the Light": Sociological Remarks on the Decline of Japanese "Immigrant" Buddhism
- de Albuquerque, Eduardo Basto
  
  Intellectuals and Japanese Buddhism in Brazil
- Rocha, Cristina
  
  All Roads Come from Zen: Busshinji as a Reference to Buddhism
- Pereira, Ronan Alves
  
  The Transplantation of Soka Gakkai to Brazil: Building "the Closest Organization to the Heart of Ikeda-Sensei"
- Watanabe Masako
  
  The Development of Japanese New Religions in Brazil and Their Propagation in a Foreign Culture
- Nakamaki Hirochika
  
  Japanese Religions, Calendars, and Religious Culture in Brazil
- Matsue, Regina Yoshie
  
  Review of: Ronan Alves Pereira and Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Religions in and Beyond the Japanese Diaspora
- Tomita, Andrea
  
  Review of: Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Prayer below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity
- Usarski, Frank
  
  Review of: Cristina Rocha, Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity
JJRS Volume 35:2 (2008)
- Ahn, Juhn Y.
  
  Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life: Labor, Exhaustion, and the Malady of Meditation
- 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
- Klautau, Orion
  
  Against the Ghosts of Recent Past: Meiji Scholarship and the Discourse on Edo-Period Buddhist Decadence
- Nelson, John K.
  
  Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist “Ancestor Worship” with Home Décor and Consumer Choice
- Broder, Anne
  
  Mahikari in Context: Kamigakari, Chinkon kishin, and Psychical Investigation in Ōmoto-lineage Religions
- Heine, Steven
  
  Review article: A Day in the Life: Two Recent Works on Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō “Gyōji” [Sustained Practice] Fascicle
- Watt, Paul B.
  
  Review of: Helen Baroni, Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Ōbaku Zen Master Tetsugen Dōkō
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Hee-Jin Kim, Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Review of: Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics
- Dorman, Benjamin
  
  Review of: Nancy K. Stalker, Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan
- Reader, Ian
  
  Review of: Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Kōyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha
- Maxey, Trent
  
  Review of: John Breen, ed., Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan’s Past
- Anderson, Emily
  
  Review of: John P. Hoffman, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun
- Molle, Andrea
  
  Review of: Robert E. Carter, The Japanese Arts and Self-cultivation
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: John D’Arcy May, ed. Converging Ways: Conversion and Belonging in Buddhism and Christianity
JJRS Volume 34:1 (2007)
- Mullins, Mark R., and Peter Nosco
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Christians in Japan
- Kitagawa, Tomoko
  
  The Conversion of Hideyoshi’s Daughter Gō
- Elisonas, J. S. A.
  
  Journey to the West
- Costa, João Paulo Oliveira e
  
  The Brotherhoods (Confrarias) and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan
- Nosco, Peter
  
  The Experiences of Christians During the Underground Years and Thereafter
- Oshiro, George M.
  
  Nitobe Inazō and the Sapporo Band: Reflections on the Dawn of Protestant Christianity in Early Meiji Japan
- Howes, John F.
  
  Christian Prophecy in Japan: Uchimura Kanzō
- Nirei, Yosuke
  
  Toward a Modern Belief: Modernist Protestantism and Problems of National Religion in Meiji Japan
- Ballhatchet, Helen
  
  Christianity and Gender Relationships in Japan: Case Studies of Marriage and Divorce in Early Meiji Protestant Circles
- Anderson, Emily
  
  Tamura Naoomi’s The Japanese Bride: Christianity, Nationalism, and Family in Meiji Japan
- Yoshida Ryo
  
  Japanese Immigrants and their Christian Communities in North America: A Case Study of the Fukuinkai, 1877–1896
- Howard, Yoshiko
  
  Review of: John F. Howes, Japan’s Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzō
JJRS Volume 34:2 (2007)
- Rhodes, Robert F.
  
  Ōjōyōshū, Nihon Ōjō Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan
- Bathgate, Michael
  
  Exemplary Lives: Form and Function in Pure Land Sacred Biography
- Chilson, Clark
  
  Eulogizing Kūya as More than a Nenbutsu Practitioner: A Study and Translation of the Kūyarui
- Blum, Mark L.
  
  Biography as Scripture: Ōjōden in India, China, and Japan
- Meeks, Lori
  
  In Her Likeness: Female Divinity and Leadership at Medieval Chūgūji
- Como, Michael
  
  Horses, Dragons, and Disease in Nara Japan
- Fister, Patricia
  
  Merōfu Kannon and Her Veneration in Zen and Imperial Circles in Seventeenth-Century Japan
- Fowler, Sherry
  
  Review of: Gregory P. A. Levine, Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery
- Rhodes, Robert F.
  
  Review of: James L. Ford, Jōkei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan
- Rowe, Mark
  
  Review of: Stephen G. Covell, Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation
- Eubanks, Charlotte
  
  Review of: William R. Lindsey. Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan
- Payne, Richard K.
  
  Review of: Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen, ed., The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion
- Whelan, Christal
  
  Review of: Richard K. Payne, ed., Tantric Buddhism in East Asia
- Ambros, Barbara
  
  Review of: Maria Rodríguez del Alisal, Peter Ackerman, and Dolores P. Martinez, ed., Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
- Yong, Amos
  
  Review of: John P. Keenan, The Wisdom of James: Parallels with Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Yong, Amos
  
  Review of: John D’Arcy May, Transcendence and Violence: The Encounter of Buddhist, Christian and Primal Traditions
JJRS Volume 33:1 (2006)
- Clarke, Shayne
  
  Miscellaneous Musings on Mūlasarvāstivāda Monks: The Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Revival in Tokugawa Japan.
- Meeks, Lori
  
  Reconfiguring Ritual Authenticity: The Ordination Traditions of Aristocratic Women in Premodern Japan.
- Nenzi, Laura
  
  To Ise at All Costs: Religious and Economic Implications of Early Modern Nukemairi.
- Ludvik, Catherine
  
  In the Service of the Kaihōgyō Practitioners of Mt. Hiei: The Stopping-Obstacles Confraternity (Sokushō kō) of Kyoto.
- Josephson, Jason Ānanda
  
  When Buddhism Became a “Religion”: Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō.
- Shinno Toshikazu
  
  Review of: Ian Reader, Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku.
- Mohr, Michel
  
  Review of: Duncan Ryūken Williams, The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen: Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan.
- Schnell, Scott
  
  Review of: Satsuki Kawano, Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Donald S. Lopez, ed., Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism.
- Snodgrass, Adrian
  
  Review of: Sherry D. Fowler, Murōji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple.
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Review of: Ikumi Kaminishi, Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan.
- Powers, John
  
  Review of: William M. Bodiford, ed., Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya.
- Leighton, Dan Taigen
  
  Review of: Thomas Yūhō Kirchner, Entangling Vines: Zen Koans of the Shūmon Kattōshū.
- Ōtani Eiichi
  
  Review of: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, Nihon no shakai sanka Bukkyō: Hōonji to Risshō Kōseikai no shakai katsudō to shakai rinri.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Martin Repp, Hōnens religioses Denken. Eine Untersuchung zu Strukturen religioser Erneuerung.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Steffen Döll, Wozu also suchen? Zur Einführung in das Denken von Ueda Shizuteru.
- Yong, Amos
  
  Review of: Kristin Beise Kiblinger, Buddhist Inclusivism: Attitudes towards Religious Others.
JJRS Volume 33:2 (2006)
- Amstutz, Galen, and Mark L. Blum
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Pure Lands in Japanese Religion.
- Knecht, Peter
  
  Ise sankei mandara and the Image of the Pure Land.
- Lee, William
  
  Entering the Pure Land: Hanamatsuri and the Ōkagura Jōdo-iri Ritual of Okumikawa.
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction.
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Translation: The Tale of the Fuji Cave. [Online only: 1–22]
- Mack, Karen
  
  The Phenomenon of Invoking Fudō for Pure Land Rebirth in Image and Text.
- Arichi, Meri
  
  Sannō Miya Mandara: The Iconography of Pure Land on this Earth.
- Andreeva, Anna
  
  Saidaiji Monks and Esoteric Kami Worship at Ise and Miwa.
- Yoshida, Tomoko
  
  Kuroda Toshio (1926–1993) on Jōdo Shinshū: Problems in Modern Historiography.
- Dobbins, James C.
  
  Review of: Richard K.Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka, eds., Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: D. Max Moerman, Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan.
JJRS Volume 32:1 (2005)
- Kimbrough, R. Keller
  
  Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural.
- Lindsey, William
  
  Religion and the Good Life: Motivation, Myth, and Metaphor in a Tokugawa Female Lifestyle Guide.
- Tsang, Carol Richmond
  
  Marriage, Adoption, and Honganji.
- Leighton, Dan Taigen
  
  Dōgen’s Appropriation of Lotus Sutra Ground and Space.
- Winfield, Pamela D.
  
  Curing with Kaji: Healing and Esoteric Empowerment in Japan.
- Miyamoto Yuki
  
  Rebirth in the Pure Land or God’s Sacrificial Lambs? Religious Interpretations of the Atomic Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: Shimazono Susumu, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: David Williams, Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power.
- Habito, Ruben L. F.
  
  Review of: Yukio Matsudo, Nichiren, der Ausübende des Lotos-Sūtra.
- Liang Xiao-hong and Paul Swanson
  
  Review of: He Yansheng, trans., Zheng fa yan zang [Shōbōgenzō].
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Christopher S. Goto-Jones, Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School, and Co-Prosperity.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Mark R. Mullins, ed., Handbook of Christianity in Japan.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: Susan L. Burns, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan.
JJRS Volume 32:2 (2005)
- Swanson, Paul L. and Benjamin Dorman
  
  Editors’ Introduction: Essays from the XIXth World Congress of the IAHR, Tokyo, March 2005.
- Sekimori, Gaynor
  
  The Separation of Kami and Buddha Worship in Haguro Shugendō, 1869–1875.
- Isomae Jun'ichi
  
  Deconstructing “Japanese Religion”: A Historical Survey.
- Tweed, Thomas A.
  
  American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism: Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History.
- Moriya Tomoe
  
  Social Ethics of “New Buddhists” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Suzuki Daisetsu and Inoue Shūten.
- Yamaguchi Aki
  
  Religious Universalism in Modern Japan: Unitarians as Mediators Between Intellectuals and the West.
- Matsuoka Hideaki
  
  Landscape as Doctrinal Representation: The Sacred Place of Shūyōdan Hōseikai.
- Staemmler, Birgit
  
  Virtual Kamikakushi: An Element of Folk Belief in Changing Times and Media.
- Fujiwara Satoko
  
  Survey on Religion and Higher Education in Japan.
- Inose Yuri
  
  Influential Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: The Case of Sōka Gakkai in Hokkaido.
JJRS Volume 31:1 (2004)
- Kanda, Fusae C.
  
  Hōnen's Senchaku doctrine and his artistic agenda.
- Horton, Sarah
  
  The influence of the Ōjōyōshū in late tenth- and early eleventh-century Japan.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Nishida's medieval bent.
- Kopf, Gereon
  
  Between identity and difference: Three ways of reading Nishida's non-dualism.
- Dorman, Benjamin
  
  SCAP's Scapegoat? The authorities, new religions, and a postwar taboo.
- Schattschneider, Ellen
  
  Family resemblances: Memorial images and the face of kinship.
- Rocha, Cristina
  
  Zazen or not zazen? The predicament of Sōtōshū's Kaikyōshi in Brazil.
- Habito, Ruben L. F.
  
  Review of: Victor Sōgen Hori, Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Kōan Practice.
- Hori, Victor Sōgen
  
  Review of: Steven Heine, Opening a Mountain: Kōans of the Zen Masters.
- Kopf, Gereon
  
  Review of: Abe, Masao. Zen and the Modern World: A Sequel to Zen and Western Thought. Edited by Steven Heine.
- Sakabe Megumi
  
  Review of: Nishida Kitarō, L'Éveil à soi. Traduction, introduction et notes de Jacynthe Tremblay.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Youxuan Wang, Buddhism and Deconstruction: Towards a Comparative Semiotics.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Paul Groner, Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century.
- Wakabayashi, Haruko
  
  Review of: Thomas Conlan, In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Frédéric Girard, Annick Horiuchi, Mieko Macé, ed., Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'heritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon.
- Sawada, Janine
  
  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.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, Zen War Stories.
- Hall, Hazel
  
  Review of: Saburo Shawn Morishita, Teodori: Cosmological Building and Social Consolidation in a Ritual Dance.
- Vervoorn, Aat
  
  Review of: Benjamin A. Elman, John B. Duncan, and Herman Ooms, Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Ellen Schattschneider, Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Osamu Tezuka, Buda, translated by Marc Bernabé and Verònica Calafell, and Osama Tezuka, Buddha.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  In Memoriam: Abe Yoshiya (1937-2003).
JJRS Volume 31:2 (2004)
- Covell, Stephen G., and Mark Rowe
  
  Editors' Introduction: Traditional Religion in Contemporary Japan.
- Covell, Stephen G.
  
  Learning to Persevere: The Popular Teachings of Tendai Ascetics.
- Tanabe, George
  
  Popular Buddhist Orthodoxy in Contemporary Japan.
- Riggs, Diane E.
  
  Fukudenkai: Sewing the Buddha's Robe in Contemporary Japanese Buddhist Practice.
- Rowe, Mark
  
  Where the Action Is: Sites of Contemporary Sōtō Buddhism.
- Hardacre, Helen
  
  Religion and Civil Society in Contemporary Japan.
- Watts, Jonathan S.
  
  A Brief Overview of Buddhist NGOs in Japan.
- Round-table Discussion
  
  The Current State of Sectarian Universities.
- Kumamoto Einin
  
  Shut Up, Zen Priest: A Review of Minami Jikisai's The Zen Priest Speaks and Other Works.
- 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].
- Nakano Tsuyoshi
  
  In memoriam: Bryan Ronald Wilson.
JJRS Volume 30:1-2 (2003)
- Yoshida Kazuhiko
  
  Revisioning Religion in Ancient Japan.
- Heine, Steven
  
  Did Dōgen Go to China? Problematizing Dōgen's Relation to Ju-ching and Chinese Ch'an.
- Como, Michael
  
  Ethnicity, Sagehood, and the Politics of Literacy in Asuka Japan.
- Rowe, Mark
  
  Grave Changes: Scattering Ashes in Contemporary Japan.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Local Histories, Anthropological Interpretations, and the Study of a Japanese Pilgrimage.
- Kopf, Gereon
  
  On the Brink of Postmodernity: Recent Japanese Language Publications on the Philosophy of Nishida Kitarō.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Robert E. Carter, Encounter with Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Carlo Saviani, L'Oriente di Heidegger and Nishitani Keiji, Nichilismo e vacuità del Sé. A cura di Carlo Saviani.
- 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.
- Horton, Sarah
  
  Review of: Wm. Theodore deBary et al., comps., Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume One.
- Matsudo Yukio
  
  Review of: Gereon Kopf, Beyond Personal Identity: Dōgen, Nishida, and a Phenomenology of No-Self.
- Nosco, Peter
  
  Review of: Ikuo Higashibaba, Christianity in Early Modern Japan: Kirishitan Belief and Practice.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Gene Reeves, ed., A Buddhist Kaleidoscope: Essays on the Lotus Sutra.
- Ruppert, Brian
  
  Review of: Iyanaga Nobumi, Daikokuten hensō: Bukkyō shinwagaku I and Kannon henyōtan: Bukkyō shinwagaku II.
- Covell, Stephen G.
  
  Review of: Richard M. Jaffe, Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism.
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  Review of: Shimada Hiromi, Oumu: Naze shūkyō wa terorizumu o unda no ka.
- 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.
- Kopf, Gereon
  
  Review of: Michiko Yusa, Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Kazuo Kasahara, ed., A History of Japanese Religion. Translated by Paul McCarthy and Gaynor Sekimori.
JJRS Volume 30:3-4 (2003)
- Kawahashi Noriko and Kuroki Masako
  
  Feminism and Religion in Contemporary Japan: Editors' Introduction.
- Usui Atsuko
  
  Women's "Experience" in New Religious Movements: The Case of Shinnyoen.
- Kaneko Juri
  
  Can Tenrikyō Transcend the Modern Family?: From a Humanistic Understanding of Hinagata and Narratives of Foster Care Activities.
- Komatsu Kayoko
  
  Mizuko Kuyō and New Age Concepts of Reincarnation.
- Mori Ichiu
  
  Nichiren's View of Women.
- Kawahashi Noriko
  
  Feminist Buddhism as Praxis: Women in Traditional Buddhism.
- Yamaguchi Satoko
  
  Christianity and Women in Japan.
- Wacker, Monika
  
  Onarigami: Holy Women in the Twentieth Century.
- Nomura Fumiko
  
  Commemorating Professor Nakamura Kyōko.
JJRS Volume 29:1-2 (2002)
- Ruppert, Brian
  
  Pearl in the Shrine: A Genealogy of the Buddhist Jewel of the Japanese Sovereign.
- Wakabayashi, Haruko
  
  The Dharma for Sovereigns and Warriors: Onjō-ji’s Claim for Legitimacy in Tengu zōshi.
- Ford, James L.
  
  Jōkei and the Rhetoric of “Other Power” and “Easy Practice” in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
- Tucker, John Allen
  
  Quiet-Sitting and Political Activism: The Thought and Practice of Satō Naokata.
- Londo, William
  
  Review of: Henny van der Veere, A Study into the Thought of Kōgyō Daishi Kakuban.
- Payne, Richard K.
  
  Review of :Brian Bocking, The Oracles of the Three Shrines: Windows on Japanese Religion.
- Deal, William E.
  
  Brian D. Ruppert, Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan.
- Ruppert, Brian
  
  Review of: Mikeal S. Adolphson, The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Miyake Hitoshi, Shugendō: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion.
- McMullen, James
  
  Review of: Wai-ming Ng, The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Robert E. Carter, The Nothingness Beyond God: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of:James W. Heisig, Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School.
- 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.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Mitchiko Ishigami-Iagolnitzer, Saint Francois d’Assise et Maître Dōgen. L’esprit franciscain et le zen - Etude comparative sur quelques aspects de christianisme et de bouddhisme.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Scott W. Sunquist, ed., A Dictionary of Asian Christianity.
- Sakashita, Jay
  
  Review of: Willis Stoesz, ed., The Living Way: Stories of Kurozumi Munetada, a Shinto Founder.
- Frank, Junko and Lewis Frank
  
  Correction.
JJRS Volume 29:3-4 (2002)
- Teeuwen, Mark, and Bernhard Scheid
  
  Tracing Shinto in the History of Kami Worship: Editors' Introduction.
- Grapard, Allan G.
  
  Shrines Registered in Ancient Japanese Law: Shinto or Not?
- Teeuwen, Mark
  
  From Jindō to Shinto: A Concept Takes Shape.
- 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.
- Scheid, Bernhard
  
  Shinto as a Religion for the Warrior Class: The Case of Yoshikawa Koretaru.
- Maeda, Hiromi
  
  Court Rank for Village Shrines: The Yoshida House's Interactions with Local Shrines during the Mid-Tokugawa Period.
- McNally, Mark
  
  The Sandaikō Debate: The Issue of Orthodoxy in Late Tokugawa Nativism.
- Thal, Sarah
  
  Redining the Gods: Politics and Survival in the Creation of Modern Kami.
- Inoue Nobutaka
  
  The Formation of Sect Shinto in Modernizing Japan.
- Teeuwen, Mark
  
  Review of: Itō Satoshi, Endō Jun, Matsuo Kōichi, and Mori Mizue, Nihonshi shōhyakka: Shintō.
JJRS Volume 28:1-2 (2001)
- Yamada Shōji
  
  The Myth of Zen in the Art of Archery.
- Ruppert, Brian
  
  Sin or Crime? Buddhism, Indebtedness, and the Construction of Social Relations in Early Medieval Japan.
- Fisch, Michael
  
  The Rise of the Chapel Wedding in Japan: Simulation and Performance.
- Matsuoka Hideaki
  
  "Messianity Makes a Person Useful": Describing Differences in a Japanese Religion in Brazil.
- Matsuo Kenji
  
  Explaining the "Mystery" of Ban Dainagon ekotoba.
- Heine, Steven
  
  After the Storm: Matsumoto Shirō's Transition from "Critical Buddhism" to Critical Theology (Review article: Matsumoto, Dōgen shisō ron).
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Review of: Sueki Fumihiko, Kamakura Bukkyō keisei ron.
- Tanabe, George
  
  Review of: Abe Ryuichi, The Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Bernard Frank, Cieux et Bouddhas au Japan and Amour, coliere, couleur: Essais sur le bouddhisme au Japan.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Review of: Scott Schnell, The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community.
- Schnell, Scott
  
  Review of: John K. Nelson, Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan.
- Kawahashi, M. Seishu
  
  Review of: He Yansheng, Dogen to Chugoku Zen shiso.
- Kopf, Gereon
  
  Review of: Steven Heine, Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan.
- Williams, Duncan Ryuken
  
  Review of: Helen J. Baroni, Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan.
- Kaufman, Laura S.
  
  Review of: S. A. Thornton, Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300-1700).
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Review of: Hayami Tasuku, Inseiki no Bukkyō.
- Addiss, Stephen
  
  Review of: Joseph D. Parker, Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573).
- Tanabe, Willa Jane
  
  Review of: Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography.
- 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.
- Kisala, Robert J.
  
  eview of: Peter B. Clarke, ed. Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective.
- 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.
- Knecht, Peter
  
  Review of: Li Narangoa, Japanische Religionspolitik in der Mongolei 1932-1945. Reformbestrebungen und Dialog zwischen japanischem und mongolischem Buddhismus.
- Wacker, Monika
  
  Review of: Susan Sered, Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa.
JJRS Volume 28:3-4 (2001)
- Ambros, Barbara, and Duncan Williams
  
  Local Religion in Tokugawa HIstory: Editors' Introduction.
- Hardacre, Helen
  
  Sources for the Study of Religion and Society in the Late Edo Period.
- Tamamuro Fumio
  
  Local Society and the Temple-Parishioner Relationship within the Bakufu's Governance Structure.
- Vesey, Alexander M.
  
  Entering the Temple: Priests, Peasants, and Village Contention in Tokugawa Japan.
- Ambros, Barbara
  
  Localized Religious Specialists in Early Modern Japan: The Development of the Ōyama Oshi System.
- Rotermund, Hartmut O.
  
  Demonic Affliction or Contagious Disease? Changing Perceptions of Smallpox in the Late Edo Period.
- Miyazaki Fumiko and Duncan Williams
  
  The Intersection of the Local and Translocal at a Sacred Site: The Case of Osorezan in Tokugawa Japan.
- Gardner, Richard
  
  Review of: Nam-lin Hur, Prayer and Play in Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society.
JJRS Volume 27:1-2 (2000)
- Cox, Harvey G. (with an introduction by Jan Swyngedouw
  
  The Myth of the Twentieth Century: The Rise and Fall of Secularization.
- Isomae Jun'ichi
  
  Reappropriating the Japanese Myths: Motoori Norinaga and the Creation Myths of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki.
- Groemer, Gerald
  
  A Short History of the Gannin: Popular Religious Performers in Tokugawa Japan.
- Takasaki Jikidō
  
  The Tathagatagarbha Theory Reconsidered: Reflections on Some Recent Issues in Japanese Buddhist Studies.
- Kawahashi Noriko
  
  Seven Hindrances of Women? A Popular Discourse on Okinawan Women and Religion.
- Okuyama Michiaki
  
  Approaches East and West to the History of Religions: Four Japanese Thinkers.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Jacqueline Stone, Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
- Mullins, Mark R.
  
  Review of: Ian Reader, Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo.
- Schnell, Scott
  
  Review of: Karen Smyers, The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Inari Worship.
- 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).
- Kleine, Christoph
  
  Review of: Machida Soho, Renegade Monk: Honen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.
- Bowring, Richard
  
  Review of: Mark J. Teeuwen and Hendrik van der Veer, Nakatomi Harae Kunge: Purification and Enlightenment in Late-Heian Japan.
- Kopf, Gereon
  
  Review of: Lydia Brull, Die Japanische Philosophie: Eine Einfuhrung.
- Brown, Delmer M.
  
  Review of: John S. Brownlee, Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jimmu.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Engelbert Kaempfer, Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed.
- O'Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Doris G. Bargen, A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji.
- Metcalf, Franz Aubrey
  
  Review of: Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen, American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: Philip Hammond and David Machacek, Soka Gakkai in America: Accommodation and Conversion.
- 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.
- Kawanami, Hiroko
  
  Review of: Paula Arai, Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns.
- Hori, Victor Sōgen
  
  Review of: Bernard Faure, The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality.
JJRS Volume 27:3-4 (2000)
- Kenney, Elizabeth and Edmund T. Gilday
  
  Mortuary Rites in Japan: Editors' Introduction.
- Blum, Mark L.
  
  Stand By Your Founder: Honganji's Struggle with Funeral Orthodoxy.
- Fister, Patricia
  
  Creating Devotional Art with Body Fragments: The Buddhist Nun Bunchi and Her Father, Emperor Gomizuno-o.
- Kenney, Elizabeth
  
  Shinto Funerals in the Edo Period.
- Gilday, Edmund T.
  
  Bodies of Evidence: Imperial Funeral Rites and the Meiji Restoration.
- Bernstein, Andrew
  
  Fire and Earth: The Forging of Modern Cremation in Meiji Japan.
- Murakami Kyōkō
  
  Changes in Japanese Urban Funeral Customs during the Twentieth Century.
- Rowe, Mark
  
  Stickers for Nails: The Ongoing Transformation of Roles, Rites, and Symbols in Japanese Funerals.
- Kretschmer, Angelika
  
  Mortuary Rites for Inanimate Objects: The Case of Hari Kuyō.
JJRS Volume 26:1-2 (1999)
- Tucker, John Allen
  
  Rethinking the Ako Ronin Debate: The Religious Significance of Chushin gishi.
- Buijnsters, Marc
  
  Jichihan and the Restoration and Innovation of Buddhist Practice.
- Ives, Christopher
  
  The Mobilization of Doctrine: Buddhist Contributions to Imperial Ideology in Modern Japan.
- Hur, Nam-lin
  
  The Sōtō Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism in Korea.
- Payne, Richard K.
  
  At Midlife in Medieval Japan
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Some Reflections on Critical Buddhism (Review article: Hubbard and Swanson, Pruning the Bodhi Tree).
- Sasaki Shizuka
  
  The Mahaparinirvana Sutra and the Origins of Mahayana Buddhism (Review article: Shimoda, Nehangyo no kenkyu).
- Kisala, Robert J.
  
  Review of: Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe, Jr., Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Mark R. Mullins, Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Momements.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Ricahrd K. Payne, ed., Re-Visioning "Kamakura" Buddhism.
- Ebersole, Gary L.
  
  Review of: Isomae Jun'ichi, Kiki shinwa no metahisutori (A metahistory of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki myths).
- 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
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Arie Van der Kooij and Karel van der Toorn, eds., Canonization and Decanonization
JJRS Volume 26:3-4 (1999)
- Habito, Ruben L. F., and Jacqueline I. Stone
  
  Revisiting Nichiren: Editors' Introduction.
- Asai Endō
  
  Nichiren Shonin's View of Humanity: The Final Dharma Age and the Three Thousand Realms in One Thought-Moment
- Sueki Fumihiko
  
  Nichiren's Problematic Works.
- Habito, Ruben L. F.
  
  Bodily Reading of the Lotus Sutra: Understanding Nichiren's Buddhism.
- Satō Hiroo
  
  Nichiren's View of Nation and Religion
- Deal, William E.
  
  Nichiren's Rissho ankoku ron and Canon Formation
- Dolce, Lucia
  
  Criticism and Appropriation: Nichiren's Attitude toward Esoteric Buddhism.
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Placing Nichiren in the
- Habito, Ruben L. F.
  
  Review article: The Uses of Nichiren in Modern Japanese History
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Review article: Biographical Studies of Nichiren
JJRS Volume 25:1-2 (1998)
- Jaffe, Richard and Michel Mohr
  
  Editors’ introduction: Meiji Zen.
- Ikeda Eishun
  
  Teaching assemblies and lay societies in the formation of modern sectarian Buddhism.
- Jaffe, Richard
  
  Meiji religious policy, Sōtō Zen, and the clerical marriage problem.
- Ishikawa Rikizan
  
  The social response of Buddhists to the modernization of Japan: The contrasting lives of two Sōtō Zen monks.
- Sawada, Janine
  
  Political waves in the Zen sea: The Engaku-ji Circle in early Meiji Japan.
- Katō Shōshun
  
  “A Lineage of Dullards”: Zen Master Tōjū Reisō and his associates.
- Mohr, Michel
  
  Japanese Zen schools and the transition to Meiji: A plurality of responses in the nineteenth century.
- Jaffe, Richard
  
  In memoriam: Ishikawa Rikizan (1943–1997).
JJRS Volume 25:3-4 (1998)
- Bowring, Richard
  
  Preparing for the Pure Land in late tenth-century Japan.
- Yiengpruksawan, Mimi
  
  Hakusan at Hiraizumi: Notes on a sacred geopolitics in the eastern provinces.
- Chin, Gail
  
  The gender of Buddhist truth: The female corpse in a group of Japanese paintings.
- Snodgrass, Judith
  
  Buddha no fukuin: The deployment of Paul Carus's Gospel of Buddha in Meiji Japan.
- Ornatowski, Gregory K.
  
  On the boundary between “religious” and “secular”: The ideal and practice of Neo-Confucian self-cultivation in modern Japanese economic life.
- Tanabe, George
  
  Review of: Helen Hardacre, Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: Takeshi Umehara, The Concept of Hell.
- Rath, Eric C.
  
  Review of: Jane Marie Law, Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Tradition.
- Pye, Michael
  
  Review of: Martin Repp, Aum Shinrikyō: Ein Kapitel krimineller Religionsgeschichte.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: Sheldon Garon, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life.
- Keenan, John P.
  
  Review of: Robert Magliola, On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture; and “A Response,” (Robert Magliola).
- Powers, John
  
  Review of: Gregory Schopen, Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India.
- Lam Wing Keung
  
  Review of: Ng Yu-kwan, The Philosophy of Absolute Nothingness: An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Kyoto School.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: John Bowker, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: Andrew C. Ross, A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China.
JJRS Volume 24:1-2 (1997)
- Sanford, James H.
  
  Wind, waters, stupas, mandalas: Fetal Buddhahood in Shingon.
- Heine, Steven
  
  The Dōgen canon: Dōgen’s pre-Shōbōgenzō writings and the question of change in his later works.
- Nakamura Kyōko
  
  The religious consciousness and activities of contemporary Japanese women.
- Anderson, Richard W. and Martin, Elaine
  
  Rethinking the practice of mizuko kuyō in contemporary Japan: Interviews with practitioners at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo.
- Fowler, Sherry
  
  In search of the dragon: Mt. Murō’s sacred topography.
- Smits, Gregory J.
  
  Unspeakable things: Sai On’s ambivalent critique of language and Buddhism.
- Matsuo Kenji
  
  What is Kamakura new Buddhism? Official monks and reclusive monks.
- Burton, Watson
  
  Review of: Ryūichi Abe and Peter Haskel, translated with essays, Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan, Poems, Letters, and Other Writings.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Bernard Faure, Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Ueda Shizuteru, Nishida Kitarō: Ningen no shōgai to iu koto; Keiken to jikaku: Nishida Tetsugaku no “basho” o motomete.
- Su Jun
  
  Review of: Ng Yu-Kwan, The Philosophy of the Kyoto School: Hisamatsu Shin’ichi
- 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.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Brian Bocking, A Popular Dictionary of Shinto; Nāgārjuna in China: A Translation of the Middle Treatise.
- Teeuwen, Mark
  
  Review of: John K. Nelson, A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine.
- 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).
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Irit Averbuch, The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Review of: David M. O’Brien with Yasuo Ohkoshi, To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Hee-Sung Keel, Understanding Shinran: A Dialogical Approach.
JJRS Volume 24:3-4 (1997)
- Reader, Ian and Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Editors’ introduction: Pilgrimage in the Japanese religious tradition.
- Hoshino Eiki
  
  Pilgrimage and peregrination: Contextualizing the Saikoku junrei and the Shikoku henro.
- Ambros, Barbara
  
  Liminal journeys: Pilgrimages of noblewomen in mid-Heian Japan.
- Moerman, David
  
  The ideology of landscape and the theater of state: Insei pilgrimage to Kumano (1090–1220).
- MacWilliams, Mark W.
  
  Temple myths and the popularization of Kannon pilgrimage in Japan: A case study of Ōya-ji on the Bandō Route.
- Kouamé, Nathalie
  
  Shikoku’s local authorities and henro during the golden age of the pilgrimage.
- Smyers, Karen A.
  
  Inari pilgrimage: Following one’s path on the mountain.
JJRS Volume 23:1-2 (1996)
- Bodiford, William M.
  
  Zen and the art of religious prejudice: Efforts to reform a tradition of social discrimination.
- Takeuchi Lone
  
  An Otogizōshi in context: Saru no sōshi and the Hie-Enryaku-ji religious multiplex in the late sixteenth century.
- Sugahara Shinkai
  
  The distinctive features of Sannō Ichijitsu Shinto.
- Smyers, Karen A.
  
  “My own Inari”: Personalization of the deity in Inari worship.
- Nelson, John K.
  
  Freedom of expression: The very modern practice of visiting a Shinto shrine.
- Amstutz, Galen
  
  Missing Hongan-ji in Japanese studies.
- Hubbard, Jamie
  
  Review of: James W. Heisig and John C. Maraldo, eds., Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Review of: Donald F. McCallum, Zenkōji and Its Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine, eds., Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives.
- Kruse, Michael
  
  Review of: Robert E. Buswell, The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Paul Mommaers and Jan Van Bragt, Mysticism Buddhist and Christian: Encounters with Jan van Ruusbroec.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Richard Henry Drummond, A Broader Vision: Perspectives on the Buddha and the Christ.
- Blosser, Philip
  
  Review of: Russell H. Bowers, Jr., Someone or Nothing? Nishitani’s Religion and Nothingness as a Foundation for Christian-Buddhist Dialogue.
- Hudson, Mark J.
  
  Review of: Isomae Jun’ichi, Dogū to kamen: Jōmon shakai no shūkyō kōzō.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time.
- 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.
JJRS Volume 23:3-4 (1996)
- Dobbins, James C.
  
  Editor’s introduction: Kuroda Toshio and his scholarship.
- Kuroda Toshio
  
  The development of the kenmitsu system as Japan’s medieval orthodoxy.
- Kuroda Toshio
  
  The imperial law and the Buddhist law.
- Kuroda Toshio
  
  Buddhism and society in the medieval estate system.
- Kuroda Toshio
  
  The world of spirit pacification: Issues of state and religion.
- Kuroda Toshio
  
  The discourse on the “Land of Kami” (shinkoku) in medieval Japan: National consciousness and international awareness.
- Rambelli, Fabio
  
  Religion, ideology of domination, and nationalism: Kuroda Toshio on the discourse of shinkoku.
- Taira Masayuki
  
  Kuroda Toshio and the kenmitsu taisei theory.
- Sueki Fumihiko
  
  A reexamination of the kenmitsu taisei theory.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Mark Teeuwen, Watarai Shintō: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise.
JJRS Volume 22:1-2 (1995)
- Sueki Fumihiko
  
  Two seemingly contradictory aspects of the teaching of innate enlightenment (hongaku) in medieval Japan.
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Medieval Tendai hongaku thought and the new Kamakura Buddhism: A reconsideration.
- Groner, Paul
  
  A medieval Japanese reading of the Mo-ho chih-kuan: Placing the Kankō ruijū in historical context.
- Habito, Ruben L. F.
  
  The logic of nonduality and absolute affirmation: Deconstructing Tendai hongaku writings.
- Abé, Ryūichi
  
  Saichō and Kūkai: A conflict of interpretations.
- Antoni, Klaus
  
  The “separation of gods and buddhas” at Omiwa Jinja in Meiji Japan.
- Kawahashi Noriko
  
  Jizoku (priests’ wives) in Sōtō Zen Buddhism: An ambiguous category.
- LaFleur, William R.
  
  Silences and censures: Abortion, history, and Buddhism in Japan. A rejoinder to George Tanabe.
- Tanabe, George
  
  Sounds and silences: A counterresponse.
- Fitzgerald, Timothy
  
  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.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Review of: Bryan Wilson and Karel Dobbelaere, A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Ng Yu-Kwan. T’ien-t’ai Buddhism and Early Mādhyamika.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Steven W. Laycock, Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind: Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology.
- 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.
JJRS Volume 22:3-4 (1995)
- Haga Manabu and Kisala, Robert J.
  
  Editors’ introduction.
- Suzuki Kentarō
  
  Divination in contemporary Japan: A general overview and an analysis of survey results.
- Yumiyama Tatsuya
  
  Varieties of healing in present-day Japan.
- Haga Manabu
  
  Self-development seminars in Japan.
- Nagai Mikiko
  
  Magic and self-cultivation in a New Religion: The case of Shinnyoen.
- Knecht, Peter
  
  The crux of the cross: Mahikari’s core symbol.
- Astley, Trevor
  
  The transformation of a recent Japanese new religion: Ōkawa Ryūhō and Kōfuku no Kagaku.
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  In the wake of Aum: The formation and transformation of a universe of belief.
- Sharf, Robert H.
  
  Sanbōkyōdan: Zen and the way of the New Religions.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  In memoriam: Heinrich Dumoulin (1905–1995).
JJRS Volume 21:1 (1994)
- Bodiford, William M.
  
  Sōtō Zen in a Japanese town: Field notes on a once-every-thirty-three-years Kannon festival.
- Heine, Steven
  
  “Critical Buddhism” (Hihan Bukkyō) and the debate concerning the 75-fascicle and 12-fascicle Shōbōgenzō texts.
- Kisala, Robert J.
  
  Contemporary karma: Interpretations of karma in Tenrikyō and Risshō Kōseikai.
- 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.
- Young, Richard F.
  
  Review of: Emily Groszos Ooms, Women and Millenarian Protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Ōmotokyō.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Steven Heine, Dōgen and the Kōan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shōbōgenzō Texts.
- 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.
- Gardner, Richard
  
  Review of: Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice.
JJRS Volume 21:2-3 (1994)
- Reader, Ian, and Tanabe, George J.
  
  Editors’ introduction.
- Hardacre, Helen
  
  Conflict between Shugendō and the New Religions of Bakumatsu Japan.
- Hayashi Makoto
  
  Tokugawa-period disputes between Shugen organizations and Onmyōji over rights to practice divination.
- Baroni, Helen J.
  
  Bottled anger: Episodes in Ōbaku conflict in the Tokugawa period.
- Sawada, Janine
  
  Religious conflict in Bakumatsu Japan: Zen master Imakita Kōsen and Confucian scholar Higashi Takusha.
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  Rebuking the enemies of the Lotus: Nichirenist exclusivism in historical perspective.
- Mullins, Mark R.
  
  Ideology and utopianism in wartime Japan: An essay on the subversiveness of Christian eschatology.
- Morioka Kiyomi
  
  Attacks on the New Religions: Risshō Kōseikai and the “Yomiuri Affair.”
- Anderson, Richard W.
  
  Risshō Kōseikai and the Bodhisattva way: Religious ideals, conflict, gender, and status.
JJRS Volume 21:4 (1994)
- Mohr, Michel
  
  Zen Buddhism during the Tokugawa period: The challenge to go beyond sectarian consciousness.
- Rambelli, Fabio
  
  True words, silence, and the adamantine dance: On Japanese Mikkyō and the formation of the Shingon discourse.
- Pearce, Thomas H.
  
  Tenchi Seikyō: A messianic Buddhist cult.
- App, Urs
  
  Review article: Linji’s evergreens. A review of Burton Watson, trans., The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi.
- Tanabe, George
  
  Review of: William R. LaFleur, Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan.
- Nosco, Peter
  
  Review of: Janine Anderson Sawada, Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan.
- Reasoner, Paul
  
  Review of: Arthur H. Thornhill III, Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku.
- Kawahashi Noriko
  
  Review of: Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism.
- Tucker, Mary Evelyn
  
  Review of: Peter K. Lee, ed., Confucian-Christian Encounters in Historical and Contemporary Perspective.
JJRS Volume 20:1 (1993)
- Nosco, Peter
  
  Secrecy and the transmission of tradition: Issues in the study of the “underground” Christians.
- Dumoulin, Heinrich
  
  Early Chinese Zen reexamined: A supplement to Zen Buddhism: A History.
- Yiengpruksawan, Mimi
  
  Downloading the Lotus: From the public to the private at Kiyohira’s Chūson-ji.
- 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.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: David J Kalupahana,, A History of Buddhist Philosophy: Continuities and Discontinuities.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Han F. de Wit, Contemplative Psychology.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: José Ignacio Cabezón, ed., Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender.
JJRS Volume 20:2-3 (1993)
- Swanson, Paul L. and Kirchner, Thomas L.
  
  Editors’ introduction.
- Akima Toshio
  
  The myth of the goddess of the undersea world and the tale of Empress Jingū’s subjugation of Silla.
- Shinno Toshikazu
  
  From minkan-shinkō to minzoku-shūkyō: Reflections on the study of folk Buddhism.
- Hayashi Makoto and Yamanaka Hiroshi
  
  The adaptation of Max Weber’s theories of religion in Japan.
- 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.
- Horo Atsuhiko
  
  Review of: Himi Kiyoshi, Tanabe tetsugaku kenkyū: Shūkyōtetsugaku no kanten kara.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Keta Masako, Shūkyōkeiken no tetsugaku: Jōdokyō sekai no kaimei.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Saitō Enshin, trans., Jikaku Daishi den: The Biography of Jikaku Daishi Ennin.
JJRS Volume 20:4 (1993)
- Deal, William E.
  
  The Lotus Sūtra and the rhetoric of legitimization in eleventh-century Japanese Buddhism.
- Kassel, Marleen
  
  Moral education in early-modern Japan: The Kangien Confucian Academy of Hirose Tansō.
- Reichl, Christopher A.
  
  The Okinawan new religion Ijun: Innovation and diversity in the gender of the ritual specialist.
- Mohr, Michel
  
  Review article: Examining the sources of Japanese Rinzai Zen. A review of Kenneth Kraft, Eloquent Zen: Daitō and Early Japanese Zen.
- Dobbins, James C.
  
  Review of: Minor and Ann Rogers, Rennyo: The Second Founder of Shin Buddhism.
- Stone, Jacqueline I.
  
  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.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Heng-ching Shih, The Syncretism of Ch’an and Pure Land Buddhism.
JJRS Volume 19:1 (1992)
- Hubbard, Jamie
  
  Premodern, modern, and postmodern: Doctrine and the study of Japanese religion.
- McMullin, Neil
  
  Which doctrine? Whose “religion”? A rejoinder.
- McVeigh, Brian
  
  The vitalistic conception of salvation as expressed in Sūkyō Mahikari.
- Mayer, Adrian C.
  
  On the gender of shrines and the Daijōsai.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Review of: Shinno Toshikazu, Nihon yugyō shūkyōron.
- Wallace, John R.
  
  Review of: Michele Marra, The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Graham Parkes, ed., Nietzsche and Asian Thought.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: John P. Keenan, The Meaning of Christ: A Mahāyāna Theology.
- Drummond, Richard H.
  
  Review of: Kumazawa Yoshinobu and David L. Swain, comps. and eds., Christianity in Japan, 1971–90.
- Fitzgerald, Timothy
  
  Review of: Akizuki Ryōmin, New Mahāyāna: Buddhism for a Post-Modern World.
- Kohn, Livia
  
  Review of: Bartholomew P. M. Tsui, Taoist Tradition and Change: The Story of the Complete Perfection Sect in Hong Kong.
- Duquenne, Robert
  
  In memoriam: Anna Seidel (1939–1991).
JJRS Volume 19:2-3 (1992)
- Hudson, Mark J. and Kaner, Simon
  
  Editors’ introduction: Towards an archaeology of Japanese ritual and religion.
- Yamagata Mariko
  
  The shakadō figurines and middle Jōmon ritual in the Kōfu Basin.
- Hudson, Mark J.
  
  Rice, bronze, and chieftains: An archaeology of Yayoi ritual.
- Ishino Hironobu
  
  Rites and rituals of the Kofun period.
- Kidder, Edward J., Jr.
  
  Busshari and fukuzō: Buddhist relics and hidden repositories of Hōryū-ji.
- Chiyonobu Yoshimasa
  
  Recent archaeological excavations at the Tōdai-ji.
- Utagawa Hiroshi
  
  The “sending-back” rite in Ainu culture.
- Tanigawa Akio
  
  Excavating Edo’s cemeteries: Graves as indicators of status and class.
- Uchiyama Junzō
  
  San’ei-chō and meat-eating in Buddhist Edo.
JJRS Volume 19:4 (1992)
- Anderson, Richard W.
  
  To open the hearts of people: Experience narratives and Zenrinkai training sessions.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  The dispute between the Sōka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shōshū priesthood: A lay revolution against a conservative clergy.
- Bargen, Doris G.
  
  Ancestral to none: Mizuko in Kawabata.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Review of: Ian Reader, Religion in Contemporary Japan; Winston Davis, Japanese Religion and Society: Paradigms of Structure and Change.
- Morrell, Robert E.
  
  Review of: Royall Tyler, The Miracles of Kasuga Deity; Susan C. Tyler, The Cult of Kasuga Seen through Its Art.
- Grapard, Allan G.
  
  Review of: James Ketelaar, Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution.
- Tucker, Mary Evelyn
  
  Review of: Peter Nosco, Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan.
- Havens, Norman
  
  Review of: Donald L Philippi, Norito: A Translation of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers.
- Smits, Gregory J.
  
  Review of: Rosemary Mercer, trans., Deep Words: Miura Baien’s System of Natural Philosophy.
JJRS Volume 18:1 (1991)
- Grapard, Allan G.
  
  Visions of excess and excesses of vision: Women and transgression in Japanese myth.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Letters to the gods: The form and meaning of ema.
- Naylor, Christina
  
  Nichiren, imperialism, and the peace movement.
- Gardner, Richard
  
  Review of: Lawrence E. Sullivan, Icanchu’s Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions.
- Rhodes, Robert F.
  
  Review of: George J. Tanabe and Willa Jane Tanabe, eds., The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture.
- Smits, Gregory J.
  
  Review of: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken.
- Gössman, Elizabeth
  
  Review of: Ulrike Wöhr, Frauen and Neue Religionen: Die Religionsgründerinnen Nakayama Miki und Deguchi Nao.
JJRS Volume 18:2-3 (1991)
- Mullins, Mark R. and Young, Richard F.
  
  Editors’ introduction.
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  The expansion of Japan’s New Religions into foreign cultures.
- Inoue Nobutaka
  
  The dilemma of Japanese-American society: A case study of Konkōkyō in North America.
- Tisdall-Yamada, Yutaka
  
  The symbolic image of ancestors in the Church of World Messianity.
- Richards, Elizabeth
  
  The development of Sekai Kyūseikyō in Thailand.
- Ōkubo Masayuki
  
  The acceptance of Nichiren Shōshū Sōka Gakkai in Mexico.
- Nakamaki Hirochika
  
  The indigenization and multinationalization of Japanese religion: Perfect Liberty Kyōdan in Brazil.
- Hurbon, Laënnec
  
  Mahikari in the Caribbean.
- Cornille, Catherine
  
  The phoenix files west: The dynamics of the inculturation of Mahikari in western Europe.
- Earhart, H. Byron
  
  Review of: Inoue Nobutaka, Kōmoto Mitsugi, Tsushima Michihito, Nakamaki Hirochika, and Nishiyama Shigeru, eds., Shinshūkyō jiten.
JJRS Volume 18:4 (1991)
- Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
  
  Mizuko kuyō: Notulae on the most important “New Religion” of Japan.
- McFarlane, Stewart
  
  The mystique of martial arts: A reply to Professor Keenan’s response.
- Anderson, Richard W.
  
  What constitutes religious activity? (I).
- Reader, Ian
  
  What constitutes religious activity? (II).
- Jorgenson, John
  
  Review of: Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History.
- 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.
- Tyler, Royall
  
  Review of: Edward Kamens, The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashū.
- Fox, Stephen S.
  
  Review of: Nishitani Keiji, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Jean-Noël Robert, Les Doctrines de l’école Japanaise Tendaï au début du IX^e siècle: Gishin et le Hokke-shū gishū.
JJRS Volume 17:1 (1990)
- Rogers, Minor L and Ann T.
  
  The Honganji: Guardian of the state (1868–1945).
- Young, Richard F.
  
  Magic and morality in modern Japanese exorcistic technologies: A study of Mahikari.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  The religious philosophy of the Kyoto School: An overview.
- Mullins, Mark R.
  
  Review of: Byron H. Earhart, Gedatsu-kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan: Returning to the Center.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: James C. Dobbins, Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Hakamaya Noriaki, Hongaku shisō hihan.
- Minnick, Wendell L.
  
  Review of: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual.
JJRS Volume 17:2-3 (1990)
- Nosco, Peter
  
  Editor’s introduction.
- Sasaki Kōkan
  
  Priest, shaman, king.
- Kitagawa, Joseph M.
  
  Some reflections on Japanese religion and its relationship to the imperial system.
- Blacker, Carmen
  
  The shinza or God-seat in the Daijōsai: Throne, bed, or incubation couch?
- Ellwood, Robert S.
  
  The Sujin religious revolution.
- Goodwin, Janet R.
  
  The Buddhist monarch: Go-Shirakawa and the rebuilding of Tōdai-ji.
- Kamikawa Michio
  
  Accession rituals and Buddhism in medieval Japan.
- Miyazaki Fumiko
  
  The formation of emperor worship in the New Religions: The case of Fujidō.
- Kurihara Akira
  
  The emperor system as Japanese national religion: The emperor system module in everyday consciousness.
- Gardner, Richard
  
  Review of: Gary L Ebersole, Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  In memoriam: Yanagawa Keiichi (1926-1990).
JJRS Volume 17:4 (1990)
- Mullins, Mark R.
  
  Japanese Pentacostalism and the world of the dead: A study of cultural adaptation in Iesu no Mitama Kyōkai.
- Hylkema-Vos, Naomi
  
  Katō Genchi: A neglected pioneer in comparative religion.
- McFarlane, Stewart
  
  Mushin, morals, and martial arts: A discussion of Keenan’s Yogācāra critique.
- Keenan, John P.
  
  The mystique of martial arts: A response to Professor McFarlane.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Review of: Miyake Hitoshi, Shūkyō minzokugaku.
- Gira, Dennis
  
  Review of: Ueda Yoshifumi and Dennis Hirota, Shinran: An Introduction to His Thought.
- Tanabe, George
  
  Review of: Edward Kamens, The Three Jewels: A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori’s Sanbōe.
JJRS Volume 16:1 (1989)
- McMullin, Neil
  
  Historical and historiographical issues in the study of pre-modern Japanese religions.
- Durfee, Richard E., Jr.
  
  Portrait of an unknowingly ordinary man: Endō Shūsaku, Christianity and Japanese historical consciousness.
- Goodwin, Janet R.
  
  Shooing the dead to paradise.
- Tyler, Royall
  
  Review of: Dennis Hirota, trans, No Abode: The Record of Ippen.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Paul O. Ingram, The Modern Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: Two Universalistic Religions in Transformation.
- Keenan, John P.
  
  Review of: Sallie B. King, trans. with annotations, Passionate Journey: The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myōdō.
- Knecht, Peter
  
  Review of: Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner eds., The Anthropology of Experience.
JJRS Volume 16:2-3 (1989)
- Tyler, Royall and Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Editors’ introduction.
- Miyake Hitoshi
  
  Religious rituals in Shugendo: A summary.
- Gorai Shigeru
  
  Shugendo lore.
- Tyler, Royall
  
  Kōfuku-ji and Shugendo.
- Wakamori Tarō
  
  The hashira-matsu and Shugendo.
- Sawa Ryūken
  
  Shugendo art.
- Earhart, H. Byron
  
  Mount Fuji and Shugendo.
- Tyler, Susan
  
  Honji suijaku faith.
- Rhodes, Robert F.
  
  Review of: John Stevens, The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei.
JJRS Volume 16:4 (1989)
- Reid, David
  
  Japanese Christians and the ancestors.
- Keenan, John P.
  
  Spontaneity in Western martial arts: A Yogācāra critique of mushin (no-mind).
- 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.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William P. Lebra eds., Japanese Culture and Behavior: Selected Readings.
JJRS Volume 15:1 (1988)
- Smith, Bardwell
  
  Buddhism and abortion in contemporary Japan: Mizuko kuyō and the confrontation with death.
- Marra, Michele
  
  The development of mappō thought in Japan (I).
- Tucker, Mary Evelyn
  
  Religious aspects of Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The thought of Nakae Tōju and Kaibara Ekken.
- Odin, Steve
  
  Review of: Joseph M. Kitagawa, On Understanding Japanese Religion.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Takamichi Takahatake, Young Man Shinran: A Reappraisal of Shinran’s Life.
- Blum, Mark L.
  
  Review of: Yoshifumi Ueda, ed., The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way. A Translation of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Mindless: Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem.
JJRS Volume 15:2-3 (1988)
- Hayashi Makoto and Yoshihara Kazuo
  
  Editors’ introduction.
- Kimura Noritsugu
  
  Folk religion in the Ise-Shima region: The takemairi custom at Mount Asama.
- Kawakami Mitsuyo
  
  The view of spirits as seen in the bon observances of the Shima region.
- Yahata Takatsune
  
  Shinmō (spirits of the recently deceased) and community: Bon observances in a Japanese village.
- Sakurai Haruo
  
  The symbolism of the shishi performance as a community ritual: The Okashira Shinji in Ise.
- Iida Takafumi
  
  Folk religion among the Koreans in Japan: The shamanism of the “Korean Temples.”
- Shima Iwao
  
  The Vithobā faith of Mahārāsastra: The Vithobā Temple of Pandharpūr and its mythological structure.
- Yoshihara Kazuo
  
  Dejiao: A Chinese religion in Southeast Asia.
- Tajima Tada’atsu
  
  Review of: Nakamaki Hirochika, ed., Kamigami no sōkoku: Bunka sesshoku to dochakushugi.
- Yamanaka Hiroshi
  
  Review of: Ronald C. Finucane, Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England.
JJRS Volume 15:4 (1988)
- Reader, Ian
  
  The rise of a Japanese “New New Religion”: Themes in the development of Agonshū.
- Young, Richard F.
  
  From gokyō-dōgen to bankyō-dōkon: A study in the self-universalization of Ōmoto.
- Marra, Michele
  
  The development of mappō thought in Japan (II).
- Tyler, Susan
  
  Review of: Willa J. Tanabe, Paintings of the Lotus Sutra.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Graham Parkes, ed., Heidegger and Asian Thought.
JJRS Volume 14:1 (1987)
- Wentz, Richard E.
  
  The prospective eye of interreligious dialogue.
- Tyler, Royall
  
  Buddhism in Noh.
- Childs, Margaret H.
  
  The influence of the Buddhist practice of sange on literary form: Revelatory tales.
JJRS Volume 14:2-3 (1987)
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Editor’s introduction, with bibliography.
- Lai, Whalen
  
  Why the Lotus Sūtra? On the historic significance of Tendai.
- Hazama Jikō
  
  The characteristics of Japanese Tendai.
- Shirato Waka
  
  Inherent enlightenment (hongaku shisō) and Saichō’s acceptance of the bodhisattva precepts.
- Groner, Paul
  
  Annen, Tankei, Henjō, and monastic discipline in the Tendai School: The background of the Futsū jubosatsukai kōshaku.
- McMullin, Neil
  
  The Enryaku-ji and the Gion Shrine-Temple complex in the Mid-Heian Period.
- Rhodes, Robert F.
  
  The kaihōgyō practice of Mt. Hiei.
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Japanese culture and the Tendai concept of original enlightenment.
- Grapard, Allan G.
  
  Linguistic cubism: A singularity of pluralism in the Sannō cult.
- Saso, Michael
  
  Kuden: The oral hermeneutics of Tendai Tantric Buddhism.
- Chappell, David W.
  
  Is Tendai Buddhism relevant to the modern world?
- Yamano, Toshirō
  
  Review of: Ikeda Rosan, Makashikan kenkyū josetsu.
- Swanson, Paul L.
  
  Review of: Hirai Shun’ei, Hokke mongu no seiritsu ni kansuru kenkyū.
JJRS Volume 14:4 (1987)
- Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
  
  Some reflections on two-way traffic, or incarnation/Avatāra and apotheosis.
- Reader, Ian
  
  Back to the future: Images of nostalgia and renewal in a Japanese religious context.
- Hoshino Eiki and Takeda Dōshō
  
  Indebtedness and comfort: The undercurrents of mizuko kuyō in contemporary Japan.
- Mullins, Mark R.
  
  The life-cycle of ethnic churches in sociological perspective.
- O’Leary, Joseph S.
  
  Review of: Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and Steven C. Rockefeller, eds., The Christ and the Bodhisattva.
- Odin, Steve
  
  Review of: Tanabe Hajime, Philosophy as Metanoetics.
JJRS Volume 13:1 (1986)
- Stoesz, Willis
  
  The universal attitude of Konkō Daijin.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  The Sōka Gakkai’s search for the realization of the world of Risshō ankokuron.
- Nakamura Hajime
  
  The goal of meditation.
- Jaffe, Paul D.
  
  Rising from the Lotus: Two Bodhisattvas from the Lotus Sutra as a psychodynamic paradigm for Nichiren.
- LaFleur, William R.
  
  Review of: Herman Ooms, Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570–1680.
JJRS Volume 13:2-3 (1986)
- Akaike Noriaki and Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Editors’ introduction.
- Dobbelaere, Karel
  
  Civil religion and the integration of society: A theoretical reflection and an application.
- Reid, David
  
  Reflections on the path to understanding in religious studies.
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  Conversion stories and their popularization in Japan’s new religions.
- Nakamaki Hirochika
  
  Continuity and change: Funeral customs in modern Japan.
- Ishii Kenji
  
  The secularization of religion in the city.
- Shimada Hiromi
  
  Yanagawa Keiichi and community religion.
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  Yanagawa Keiichi as an educator.
JJRS Volume 13:4 (1986)
- Ooms, Herman
  
  “Primeval Chaos” and “Mental Void” in Early Tokugawa ideology: Fujiwara Seika, Suzuki Shōsan, and Yamazaki Ansai.
- Lewis, David C.
  
  Religious rites in a Japanese factory.
- King, Winston L.
  
  An interpretation of the Anjin ketsujōshō.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Dennis Gira, Le sens de la conversion dans l’enseignement de Shinran.
- Keenan, John P.
  
  Review of: Robert E. Morrell, Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishū): The Tales of Mujū Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Richard Wentz, The Contemplation of Otherness: The Critical Vision of Religion.
JJRS Volume 12:1 (1985)
- Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
  
  What’s in a name? Reflections on God, gods, and the divine.
- Nishiyama Shigeru
  
  Indigenization and transformation of Christianity in a Japanese rural community.
- Odin, Steve
  
  The penumbral shadow: A Whiteheadian perspective on the yūgen style of art and literature in Japanese aesthetics.
- Childs, Margaret H.
  
  Kyōgen-kigo: Love stories as Buddhist sermons.
JJRS Volume 12:2-3 (1985)
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Editor’s introduction.
- Nakamura Hajime
  
  Intuitive awareness: Issues in early mysticism.
- Maraldo, John C.
  
  Is there historical consciousness in Ch’an?
- Lai, Whalen
  
  Ma-tsu Tao-i and the unfolding of southern Zen.
- Nishimura Eshin
  
  Transcending the Buddhas and patriarchs: Awareness and transcendence in Zen.
- Kiyota, Minoru
  
  Tathāgatagarbha thought: A basis of Buddhist devotionalism in East Asia.
- Habito, Ruben L. F.
  
  On dharmakāya as ultimate reality: Prolegomenon for a Buddhist-Christian dialogue.
- Ching, Julia
  
  No other name?
- Watanabe Manabu
  
  The works of Heinrich Dumoulin: A select bibliography.
JJRS Volume 12:4 (1985)
- Stefansson, Halldor
  
  Earth-gods in Morimachi.
- Nakamura Hajime
  
  Ch’an and mysticism in later times.
- Marra, Michele
  
  The conquest of mappō: Jien and Kitabatake Chikafusa.
- Thurston, Bonnie Bowman
  
  The conquered Self: Emptiness and God in a Buddhist-Christian dialogue.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Nagao Gadjin, Bukkyō no genryū: Indo.
- Lai, Whalen
  
  Review of: Helen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan.
- O’Leary, Joseph S. and Keenan, John P.
  
  Review of: Robert Magliola, Derrida on the Mend.
JJRS Volume 11:1 (1984)
- Lai, Whalen
  
  Seno’o Girō and the dilemma of modern Buddhism: Leftist prophet of the Lotus Sutra.
- Meshcheryakov, A. N.
  
  The meaning of “the beginning” and “the end” in Shinto and early Japanese Buddhism.
- Kōnoshi Takamitsu
  
  The land of Yomi: On the mythical world of the Kojiki.
- Hase Shōtō
  
  Knowledge and transcendence: Modern idealist philosophy and Yogācāra Buddhism (Part 1).
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: H. Byron Earhart, The New Religions of Japan: A Bibliography of Western-language Materials, 2nd edition.
- Ishii Kenji
  
  Review of: Richard K. Fenn, Liturgies and Trials: The Secularization of Religious Language.
JJRS Volume 11:2-3 (1984)
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Religious ideas in Japan: Introductory remarks.
- Kitagawa, Joseph M.
  
  Paradigm change in Japanese Buddhism.
- Dumoulin, Heinrich
  
  The person in Buddhism: Religious and artistic aspects.
- Hase Shōtō
  
  Knowledge and transcendence: Modern idealist philosophy and Yogācāra Buddhism (Part 2).
- Morrell, Robert E.
  
  Shingon’s Kakukai on the immanence of the Pure Land.
- Soga Ryōjin
  
  The core of Shinshū.
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Critique of Original Awakening thought in Shōshin and Dōgen.
- Ariga Tetsutarō
  
  Being and Hāyāh.
JJRS Volume 11:4 (1984)
- Ching, Julia
  
  The idea of God in Nakae Tōju.
- Marra, Michele
  
  Semi-recluses (tonseisha) and impermanence (mujō): Kamo no Chōmei and Urabe Kenkō.
- Siddharthan, N. S.
  
  The non-neoclassical paradigm: Buddhism and economic development.
- Knecht, Peter
  
  Review of: Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim Janelli, Ancestor Worship and Korean Society.
JJRS Volume 10:1 (1983)
- Morrell, Robert E.
  
  Jōkei and the Kōfukuji petition.
- Fujii Masao
  
  Maintenance and change in Japanese traditional funerals and death-related behavior.
- Nakamaki Hirochika
  
  The “separate” coexistence of kami and hotoke: A look at Yorishiro.
- Bocking, Brian
  
  Comparative studies of Buddhism and Christianity.
JJRS Volume 10:2-3 (1983)
- Nakamura Kyōko
  
  Women and religion in Japan: Introductory remarks.
- Takagi Kiyoko
  
  Religion in the life of Higuchi Ichiyō.
- Hardacre, Helen
  
  The cave and the womb world.
- Uchino Kumiko
  
  The status elevation process of Sōtō sect nuns in modern Japan.
- Kaneko Sachiko and Robert E. Morrell
  
  Sanctuary: Kamakura’s Tōkeiji convent.
- Takemi Momoko
  
  “Menstruation Sutra” belief in Japan.
- Igeta Midori
  
  The image of woman in sermons: Anju in “Sanshō Dayū.”
JJRS Volume 10:4 (1983)
- Vance, Timothy J.
  
  The etymology of kami.
- Yanagawa Keiichi and Abe Yoshiya
  
  Cross-cultural implications of a behavioral response.
- Reid, David
  
  Reflections: A response to professors Yanagawa and Abe.
- Tekippe, Terry J.
  
  Review of: Takeuchi Yoshinori, The Heart of Buddhism: In Search of the Timeless Spirit of Primitive Buddhism.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: James M. Phillips, From the Rising of the Sun: Christians and Society in Contemporary Japan.
- Watanabe Manabu
  
  Review of: Kawai Hayao, Mukashibanashi to nihonjin no kokoro [Folktales and the Japanese psyche].
- Rochelle, Jay C.
  
  Review of: Frederick Franck, The Supreme Koan.
JJRS Volume 9:1 (1982)
- Wilson, Bryan R.
  
  The academic position of the sociology of religion in modern science.
- Morioka Kiyomi
  
  Methodological problems in the sociology of religion in Japan.
- Akaike Noriaki
  
  Sympathetic understanding and objective observation.
- Araki Michio
  
  Toward an integrated understanding of religion and society: Hidden premises in the scientific apparatus of the study of religion.
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  The study of religion and the tradition of pluralism.
- Wilson, Bryan R.
  
  A riposte.
JJRS Volume 9:2-3 (1982)
- Kelsey, W. Michael
  
  Religion and literature in Japan: Some introductory remarks.
- Kurosawa Kōzō
  
  Myths and tale literature.
- Fujii Sadakazu
  
  The relationship between the romance and religious observances: Genji monogatari as myth.
- Mori Masato
  
  Konjaku monogatari-shū: Supernatural creatures and order.
- Morrell, Robert E.
  
  Kamakura accounts of Myōe Shōnin as popular religious hero.
- Geddes, Ward
  
  The Buddhist monk in the Jikkinshō.
- Minobe Shigekatsu
  
  The world view of Genpei jōsuiki.
- McCarthy, Paul
  
  The Madonna and the harlot: Images of woman in Tanizaki.
JJRS Volume 9:4 (1982)
- Tyler, Royall
  
  A critique of "absolute phenomenalism."
- Yanagawa Keiichi
  
  From a science of “behavior” to a science of “understanding.”
- Sonoda Minoru
  
  The study of religion as a human science.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: H. Byron Earhart, Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Minoru Kiyota, Gedatsukai: Its Theory and Practice.
- Knitter, Paul F.
  
  Review of: Hans Waldenfels, Absolute Nothingness: Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue.
- Heisig, James W.
  
  Review of: Chai-Shin Yu, Early Buddhism and Christianity: A Comparative Study of the Founders’ Authority, the Community, and the Discipline.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Review of: K. L. Seshagiri Rao, Mahatma Gandhi and Comparative Religion.
JJRS Volume 8:1-2 (1981)
- Reid, David
  
  Remembering the dead: Change in Protestant Christian tradition through contact with Japanese cultural tradition.
- Shinohara Kōichi
  
  Buddhism and the problem of modernity in East Asia: Some exploratory comments based on the example of Takayama Chogyū.
- Akaike Noriaki
  
  The Ontake cult associations and local society: The case of the Owari-Mikawa region in Central Japan.
- Kelsey, W. Michael
  
  Salvation of the snake, the snake of salvation: Buddhist-Shinto conflict and resolution.
JJRS Volume 8:3-4 (1981)
- Brooks, Anne Page
  
  Mizuko kuyō and Japanese Buddhism.
- Satō Noriaki
  
  The initiation of the religious specialists Kamisan: A few observations.
- Nakamura Kyōko
  
  Revelatory experience in the female life cycle: A biographical study of women religionists in Modern Japan.
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  Religious influences on Japan’s modernization.
- Shinohara Kōichi
  
  Religion and political order in Nichiren’s Buddhism.
- Augustine, Morris J.
  
  The sociology of knowledge and Buddhist-Christian forms of faith, practice and knowledge.
- Gannon, Thomas M.
  
  Sociology of religion in the U.S.: The state of the art.
- Franck, Frederick
  
  Review article: Religion and art. A review of Thomas R. Martland, Religion as Art: An Interpretation.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: William Johnston, The Inner Eye of Love: Mysticism and Religion.
JJRS Volume 7:1 (1980)
- Eger, Max
  
  “Modernization” and “secularization” in Japan: A polemical essay.
- Pye, Michael
  
  Comparative hermeneutics: A brief statement.
- Solomon, Ted J.
  
  Sōka Gakkai on the alleged compatibility between Nichiren Buddhism and modern science.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  Why did Ikeda quit?
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  Review of: Suzuki Norihisa, Meiji shūkyō shichō no kenkyū: Shūkyōgaku kotohajime.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Murakami Shigeyoshi, Japanese Religion in the Modern Century.
- Inoue Nobutaka
  
  Review of: Shūkyō Shakaigaku Kenkyūkai, ed., Shūkyō no imi sekai.
- Kōmoto Mitsugi
  
  Review of: Yanagawa Keiichi and Anzai Shin, eds., Shūkyō to shakai hendō.
JJRS Volume 7:2-3 (1980)
- Mori Kōichi
  
  Yanagita Kunio: An interpretive study.
- Koga Kazunori
  
  Furuno Kiyoto: The romance of religion and the pursuit of science.
- Hirano Toshimasa
  
  Aruga Kizaemon: The household, the ancestors, and the tutelary deities.
- Nishiyama Shigeru
  
  Morioka Kiyomi: From a structural to a life-cycle theory of religious organization.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Ikado Fujio: A Japanese cosmopolitan.
- Earhart, H. Byron
  
  Gedatsukai: One life history and its significance for interpreting Japanese new religions.
JJRS Volume 7:4 (1980)
- Foard, James H.
  
  In search of a lost reformation: A reconsideration of Kamakura Buddhism.
- Morioka Kiyomi and Nishiyama Shigeru
  
  Acceptance of a new religion and subsequent changes in religious consciousness.
- Harrington, Ann M.
  
  The kakure kirishitan and their place in Japan’s religious tradition.
- Parks, Yōko Yamamoto
  
  Nichiren Shōshū Academy in America: Changes during the 1970s.
- Nakajima Hideo
  
  Review of: Johannes Laube, Oyagami: Die heutige Gottesvorstellung der Tenrikyō.
JJRS Volume 6:1-2 (1979)
- Mol, Hans
  
  The identity model of religion: How it compares with nine other theories of religion and how it might apply to Japan.
- Dobbelaere, Karel
  
  Professionalization and secularization in the Belgian Catholic pillar.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Reflections on the secularization thesis in the sociology of religion in Japan.
- Tamaru Noriyoshi
  
  The problem of secularization: A preliminary analysis.
- Luckmann, Thomas
  
  The structural conditions of religious consciousness in modern societies.
- Tsushima Michihito, Nishiyama Shigeru, Shimazono Susumu, and Shiramizu Hiroko
  
  The vitalistic conception of salvation in Japanese new religions: An aspect of modern religious consciousness.
- Inoue Nobutaka, Kōmoto Mitsugi, Nakamaki Hirochika, Shioya Masanori, Uno Masato and Yamazaki Yoshie
  
  A festival with anonymous kami: The Kobe Matsuri.
- Wilson, Bryan R.
  
  The new religions: Some preliminary considerations.
- Sanada Takaaki
  
  After prophecy fails: A reappraisal of a Japanese case.
- Morioka Kiyomi
  
  The institutionalization of a new religious movement.
- Martin, David A.
  
  The cultural politics of established churches.
- Ueda Kenji
  
  Contemporary social change and Shinto tradition.
- Matsunami Yoshihiro
  
  Conflict within the development of Buddhism.
- Reid, David
  
  Secularization theory and Japanese Christianity: The case of the Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan.
JJRS Volume 6:3 (1979)
- Shimazono Susumu
  
  The living kami idea in the new religions of Japan.
- Shiramizu Hiroko
  
  Organizational mediums: A case study of Shinnyo-en.
- Hardacre, Helen
  
  Sex-role norms and values in Reiyūkai.
JJRS Volume 6:4 (1979)
- Turner, Victor
  
  Frame, flow and reflection: Ritual and drama as public liminality.
- Yanagawa Keiichi and David Reid
  
  Between unity and separation: Religion and politics in Japan, 1965–1977.
- Mori Kōichi
  
  The Emperor of Japan: A historical study in religious symbolism.
- 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.
- Suleski, Ronald
  
  Review of: Kokubo Kazuo, Den shingon’in mandara: Sekai bunmei no shukuzu.
JJRS Volume 5:1 (1978)
- Yanagawa Keiichi and Abe Yoshiya
  
  Some observations on the sociology of religion in Japan.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  A rejoinder.
- Yanagawa Keiichi and Abe Yoshiya
  
  Reply.
- Hambrick, Charles H.
  
  The Gukanshō: A religious view of Japanese history.
- Huthwait, Motoko Fujishiro
  
  Japanese values: A thematic analysis of contemporary children’s literature.
- Ōta Yūzō
  
  Review of: George B. Bikle, The New Jerusalem: Aspects of Utopianism in the Thought of Kagawa Toyohiko.
- Skoglund, Herbert
  
  Review of: Tucker N. Callaway, Zen Way–Jesus Way.
JJRS Volume 5:2-3 (1978)
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Japanese religiosity in an age of internationalization.
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  From prohibition to toleration: Japanese government views regarding Christianity, 1854–73.
- Lishka, Dennis
  
  Zen and the creative process: The “kendō-Zen” thought of the Rinzai Master Takuan.
- Rodd, Laurel R.
  
  Nichiren and setsuwa.
- Fridell, Wilbur M.
  
  Thoughts on man and nature in Japan: A personal statement.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Barbara A. Babcock, ed., The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Patterns of Behavior.
JJRS Volume 5:4 (1978)
- Fujita Tomio
  
  Reflections on the contemporary revival of religion.
- Beckford, James A.
  
  Cults and cures.
- Lai, Whalen
  
  After the reformation: Post-Kamakura Buddhism.
- Cobb, John B., Jr.
  
  Christianity and Eastern wisdom.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Review of: Shūkyōshakaigaku Kenkyūkai, ed., Gendai shūkyō e no shikaku.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Sugimoto Masayoshi and David L. Swain, Science and Culture in Traditional Japan: A.D. 600–1854.
JJRS Volume 4:1 (1977)
- Lee, Robert
  
  The individuation of the self in Japanese history.
- Takagi Kiyoko
  
  Saigyō: A search for religion.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972. (7).
- McPherson, William
  
  Review of: Arnold J. Toynbee and Ikeda Daisaku, The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue.
JJRS Volume 4:2-3 (1977)
- Koepping, Klaus-Peter
  
  Ideologies and new religious movements: The case of Shinreikyō and its doctrines in comparative perspective.
- Doerner, David L.
  
  Comparative analysis of life after death in folk Shinto and Christianity.
- Morioka Kiyomi
  
  The appearance of “ancestor religion” in modern Japan: The years of transition from the Meiji to the Taishō periods.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972. (8).
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Robert D. Baird, ed., Methodological Issues in Religious Studies.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Review of: Mainichi Shinbunsha, ed., Shūkyō o gendai ni tou.
JJRS Volume 4:4 (1977)
- Andrews, Allan A.
  
  World rejection and Pure Land Buddhism in Japan.
- Kodera, Takashi James
  
  The Buddha-nature in Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972 (9).
- Fridell, Wilbur M.
  
  Review of: Felicia Gressitt Bock, Engi-shiki: Procedures of the Engi Era.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Norman Anderson, ed., The World’s Religions.
- Reid, David
  
  Takie Sugiyama Lebra and William P. Lebra, eds., Japanese Culture and Behavior: Selected Readings. [322]
JJRS Volume 3:1 (1976)
- Davis, Winston
  
  The civil theology of Inoue Tetsujirō.
- Sadler, A. W.
  
  Between fieldwork and theory: World view and virtuosity in a monastic community.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972. (4).
- Kasai Minoru
  
  Review of: Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Morioka Kiyomi, Religion in Changing Japanese Society.
JJRS Volume 3:2-3 (1976)
- Munakata Iwao
  
  The ambivalent effects of modernization on the traditional folk religion of Japan.
- Akaike Noriaki
  
  Festival and neighborhood association: A case study of the Kamimachi neighborhood in Chichibu.
- de Veer, Henrietta
  
  Myth sequences from the Kojiki: A structural study.
- Howes, John F.
  
  Challenging comparative biography: A review article. Review of: Suzuki Norihisa, Uchimura Kanzō to sono jidai: Shiga Shigetaka to no hikaku.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972. (5).
- Suzuki Norihisa
  
  Review of: Tomikura Mitsuo, Fukawa Kiyoshi, Ōhama Tetsuya, and Miyata Noboru, Kenshin.
- Van Bragt, Jan
  
  Review of: Doi Masatoshi, Search for Meaning Through Interfaith Dialogue.
JJRS Volume 3:4 (1976)
- Wilson, Bryan R.
  
  Aspects of secularization in the West.
- Luckmann, Thomas
  
  A critical rejoinder.
- Morioka Kiyomi
  
  Comments by a Japanese sociologist.
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  Secularization in a Japanese context.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972. (6).
- Drummond, Richard H.
  
  Review of: Otis Cary, A History of Christianity in Japan: Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Missions.
- Davis, Winston
  
  Review of: Robert S. Ellwood, The Eagle and the Rising Sun: Americans and the New Religions of Japan.
- Métraux, Daniel A.
  
  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.
JJRS Volume 2:1 (1975)
- Earhart, H. Byron
  
  The Japanese dictionary of religious studies: Analysis and assessment.
- Reid, David
  
  Satistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972.
- Sharma, Arvind
  
  “The Future of an Illusion” forty years later.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Stview of: Fujii Masao, Gendaijin no shinkō kōzō: Shūkyō fudō jinkō no kōdō to shisō.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Richard H. Drummond, Gautama the Buddha: An Essay in Religious Understanding; Heinrich Dumoulin, Christianity Meets Buddhism.
JJRS Volume 2:2-3 (1975)
- Tamaru Noriyoshi
  
  Some reflections on contemporary theories of religion.
- Sonoda Minoru
  
  The traditional festival in urban society.
- Fridell, Wilbur M.
  
  The establishment of Shrine Shinto in Meiji Japan.
- Willson, Lawrence
  
  Suzuki, Hartshorne, and Becoming-Now.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972. (2).
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 1: Jōnen no sekai.
- Yanagawa Keiichi
  
  Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 2: Girei no kōzō.
- Morioka Kiyomi
  
  Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 3: Kindai to no kaiko.
- Morioka Kiyomi
  
  Review of: Tamaru Noriyoshi, Muraoka Kū, Miyata Noburu, eds., Nihonjin no shūkyō, Vol. 4: Kindai nihon shūkyōshi shiryō.
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  Review of: Tokoro Shigemoto, ed., Tennōsei to nihon shūkyō.
- Skoglund, Herbert
  
  Review of: Kenneth J. Dale, Circle of Harmony.
JJRS Volume 2:4 (1975)
- Hori Ichirō
  
  Shamanism in Japan.
- Ministry of Education
  
  Statistics on religious organizations in Japan, 1947–1972. (3).
- Ooms, Herman
  
  Review of: Robert J. Smith, Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan.
- Iisaka Yoshiaki
  
  Review of: Fernando M. Basabe, Religion in the Japanese Textbooks, Vol. 1: Ethics and Society.
- Wray, Harry
  
  Review of: Vincente M. Bonet, Religion in the Japanese Textbooks, Vol.2: World History.
- Takagi Kiyoko
  
  Review of: Anzai Shin, Religion in the Japanese Textbooks, Vol. 3: Japanese History.
JJRS Volume 1:1 (1974)
- Yanagawa Keiichi
  
  Theological and scientific thinking about festivals: Reflections on the Gion Festival at Aizu Tajima.
- Matsunaga, Daigan and Alicia
  
  The concept of upāya in Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy.
- Mayer, Fanny Hagin
  
  Religious concepts in the Japanese folk tale.
JJRS Volume 1:2-3 (1974)
- Pye, Michael
  
  Problems of method in the interpretation of religion.
- Kitagawa, Joseph M.
  
  One of many faces of China: Maoism as a quasi-religion.
- Burkman, Thomas W.
  
  The Urakami incidents and the struggle for religious toleration in early Meiji Japan.
- Hambrick, Charles H.
  
  Tradition and modernity in the new religious movements of Japan.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Ikado Fujio, Sezoku shakai no shūkyō.
JJRS Volume 1:4 (1974)
- Cooke, Gerald
  
  Traditional Buddhist sects and modernization in Japan.
- Ingram, Paul O.
  
  The symbolism of light and Pure Land Buddhist soteriology.
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Michael Pye, Zen and Modern Japanese Religions.
CRJ Volume 11:1-2 (1970)
- Earhart, H. Byron
  
  The Ideal of Nature in Japanese Religion and Its Possible Significance for Environmental Concerns
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  Religious Freedom and The Okada Religion Bill
- Swyngedouw, Jan
  
  A Brief Guide to English-Language Materials on Japan's Religions
- Jack, Homer A.
  
  Part three: Position Papers (World Conference on Religion and Peace Proceedings)
- Camara, Eugene Carson
  
  Development (World Conference on Religion and Peace Proceedings)
- Camara, Helder
  
  Religions and the Need for Structural Changes in Today's World (World Conference on Religion and Peace Proceedings)
- Abernathy, Ralph David
  
  An Appeal to the Religious Peoples of the World and to All Men of Good Will (World Conference on Religion and Peace Proceedings)
CRJ Volume 11:3-4 (1970)
- In Memoriam
  
  In Memoriam
- Suzuki Norihisa
  
  Nobuta Kishimoto and the Beginnings of the Scientific Study of Religion in Modern Japan
- Sadler, A. W.
  
  Of Talismans and Shadow Bodies: Annual Perification Bites at a Tokyo Shrine
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  Religious Freedom Under the Meiji Constitution (Part 4)
- Editorial staff
  
  Appendixes and Bibliography
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of A Survey by the Agency for Curtural Affairs; Ministry of Education,Japanese Religion
- Creemers, W. H. M.
  
  Review of: William P. Woodard, The Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-1952 and Japanese Religions
- Davis, Winston
  
  Review of: Joseph J. Spae, Shinto Man
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: C. William Mensendiek, A Man for His Times: The Life and Thought of David Bowman Schneder Missionary to Japan 1887-1938
- Reid, David
  
  Review of: Joseph Jennes, A History of the Catholic Church in Japan From its Beginnings to the Early Meiji Era (1549-1873)
CRJ Volume 10:1-2 (1969)
- Bollinger, Edward E.
  
  The Unity of Government and Religion in the Ryūkyū Islands to 1,500 A.D.
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  Religious Freedom Under the Meiji Constitution (Part 2)
- Doi Masatoshi
  
  A Few Words of Welcome
- Khan, Zafrulla
  
  Message (Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace)
- Samartha, S. J.
  
  The Progress and Promise of Inter-religious Dialogues (Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace)
- Iisaka Yoshiaki
  
  The Significance of Inter-religious Dialogue for World Peace (Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace)
- Editorial staff
  
  Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace
- Masao, Abe
  
  The Buddhist View of Inter-religious Dialogue
- Editorial staff
  
  Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace
- Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
  
  The Jewish View of Inter-religious Dialogue (Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace)
- Editorial staff
  
  Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace
- Panikkar, Raymond
  
  Inter-Faith Dialogue (Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace)
- Process of Drafting and Discussing the Statement
  
  Report of the Consulation on Inter-Religious Dialogue with Special Reference to World Peace
CRJ Volume 10:3-4 (1969)
- Ingram, Paul O.
  
  Soka Gakkai and the Kōmeitō: Buddhism and Political Power in Japan
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  Religious Freedom Under the Meiji Constitution (Part 3)
- Ōtani Kōshō
  
  Part one: Address (World Conference on Religion and Peace Proceedings)
- Khan, Zafrulla
  
  Part two: Fundamental Papers (World Conference on Religion and Peace Proceedings)
- Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
  
  Between the Crossfires: Some Reflection on Religion, Peace, and Human Rights
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1968 (July - December)
CRJ Volume 9:1-2 (1968)
- Dumermuth, Fritz
  
  Religion in Sociological Perspective
- Fox, Douglas A.
  
  Soteriology in Jōdo Shin and Christianity
- Ishizawa Kaname
  
  The Philosophy of Nyōzai or Thusness
- Watanabe Eimi
  
  Risshō Kōsei-Kai: A Sociological Observation of Its Members, Their Conversion and Their Activites
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1967 (July - December)
CRJ Volume 9:3 (1968)
- Ching, Julia
  
  The Problem of Evil and a Possible Dialogue Between Christianity and Neo-Confucianism
- Bikle, Jr., George B.
  
  Thy Kingdom Come on Earth: Some Reflections on the Social Gospel Movement in Japan
- Takeda Chido
  
  School Education and Religion in Japan
- Ingram, Paul O.
  
  Hōnen's and Shinran's Justification for Their Doctrine of Salvation by Faith through
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1968 (January - June)
CRJ Volume 9:4 (1968)
- Bertman, Martin A.
  
  The Hebrew Encounter with Evil
- Abe Yoshiya
  
  Religious Freedom Under the Meiji Constitution (Part 1)
- Findings of the World Conference on Religion and Peace
  
  Disarmament / Development / Human Rights: The Findings of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (October 16-21, 1970)
CRJ Volume 8:1 (1967)
- Nara Yasuaki
  
  Buddha and Man
- Murano Senchū
  
  An Outline of the Lotus Sūtra
- Editorial staff
  
  General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers: Official Documents (Part 2)
- Editorial staff
  
  General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers: Official Documents (Part 3)
- Editorial staff
  
  General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers: Official Documents (Part 4)
CRJ Volume 8:2 (1967)
- Koepping, Klaus-Peter
  
  Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan - A preliminary discussion of a recent religious movement in Japan
- Brannen, Noah S.
  
  Happiness and Life's Objective (Chapter 4 of Shakubuku Kyōten)
- Constitution Investigation Council
  
  The 38th General Meeting, December 2, 1958
- Schiffer, Wilhelm
  
  Necromangers in the Tōhoku
- Katakura Motoko
  
  Review of: Izutsu Toshihiko, Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'ān
- Ono Sokyō
  
  Review of: Kuki Yukio,Nihon no Shūkyō: Minzoku no Shūkyō-shi
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1966 (January - June)
CRJ Volume 8:3-4 (1967)
- Ooms, Herman
  
  The Religion of the Household: A case study of ancestor worship in Japan
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology (July 1966- June 1967)
CRJ Volume 7:1 (1966)
- Editorial staff
  
  Shintō Symbols (Part 1)
- Miyaji Naokazu
  
  What is Shinto?
- Editorial staff
  
  Reminiscences of Religion in Postwar Japan
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1965 (January - June)
CRJ Volume 7:2 (1966)
- Editorial staff
  
  Shinto Symbols (Part 2)
- Hiyane Antei
  
  An Interview with Dr. Naokazu Miyaji
- Bunce, W. K.
  
  National Holidays - Official Documents
- Editorial staff
  
  Reminiscences of Religion in Postwar Japan (Continued)
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology (July 1965 - December 1965)
CRJ Volume 7:3 (1966)
- Bandō Shōjun
  
  The Significance of the Nembutsu
- Nugent, D. R.
  
  Disposition of State-owned Land Currently Used by Religious Institutions: Official Documents
- Editorial staff
  
  Reminiscences of Religion in Postwar Japan (Continued)
- Morioka Kiyomi and Kumagai Sonoko
  
  Impacts of Population Mobility on Christian Churches
CRJ Volume 7:4 (1966)
- Kinoshita Michio
  
  What I Heard and Saw at the Tokyo Palace
- Editorial staff
  
  General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers: Official Documents (Part 1)
CRJ Volume 6:1 (1965)
- Ienaga Saburō
  
  Japan's Modernization and Buddhism
- Karasawa Tomitarō
  
  Morality from Now On: Concerning the Moral Guidance Data
- Bloom, Alfred
  
  Observations in the Study of Contemporary Nichiren Buddhism
- Winemiller, Paul
  
  Shin Buddhism
- Nakamura Kyōko
  
  Review of: Tamamuro Taijō, Sōshiki Bukkyō
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology (July - December 1964)
CRJ Volume 6:2 (1965)
- Editorial staff
  
  Reminiscences of Religion in Postwar Japan
CRJ Volume 6:4 (1965)
- Reid, David
  
  Reflections: A Response to Professors Yanagawa and Abe
- Editorial staff
  
  Review of: Sherwood F. Moran, The Blue Fudo: A Painting of the FujiwaraPeriod
- Editorial staff
  
  Review of: James M. Phillips, From the rising of the sun: Christians and society in contemporary Japan
- Murano Senchū
  
  The Saddharmapundarika and Its Influence
- Moran, Sherwood F.
  
  The Statue of Fugen Bosatsu Okura Museum, Tokyo
- Editorial Staff
  
  Reminiscences of Religion in Postwar Japan (Continued)
- Phillips, James M.
  
  Review of: Charles W. Iglehart, International Christian University: An Adventure in Christian Higher Education in Japan
- Kan, Enkichi
  
  Review of: Charles Hugh Germany, Protestant Theologies in Modern Japan
CRJ Volume 5:1 (1964)
- Bethel, Dayle
  
  International Interfaith Roundtable Conference
- Norman, William H. H.
  
  Kanzō Uchimura
- Ōishi Shūten
  
  The New Religious Sects of Japan
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Heinrich Dumoulin, A History of Zen Buddhism
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Chūzō Yamada and Robert Northrup, The Japan Christian Year Book
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Richard M. Dorson, Studies in Japanese Folklore
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: The Center for Japanese Social and Political Studies, Journal of Social and Political Ideas in Japan
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Charles Burnell Olds, Love: The Issue
- Motomochi Kyōko
  
  Chronology for 1963 (July - November)
- Hammer, Raymond
  
  The March 1964 Issue of Contemporary Religions in Japan
CRJ Volume 5:2 (1964)
- Woodard, William P.
  
  In Memoriam
- Kishimoto Hideo
  
  My View of Life and Death
- Bloom, Alfred
  
  Shinran's Philosophy of Salvation By Absolute Other Power
- Brannen, Noah S.
  
  Soka Gakkai's Theory of Value
- Asakusa Kannon Temple
  
  The Asakusa Kannon Temple
- Bethel, Dayle
  
  Second International Interfaith Roundtable Conference
- Hammer, Raymond
  
  The June 1964 Issue of Contemporary Religions in Japan
CRJ Volume 5:3 (1964)
- Piovesana, Gino K.
  
  One Hundred Years of Japanese Philosophy 1862-1962
- Kanaoka Shūyū
  
  Review of: Alice Getty, The Gods of Northern Buddhism: their history, iconography, and progressive evolution through the northern Buddhist countries
- Fujieda Masakazu
  
  Comments on Dr. Clark B. Offner and Dr. H. Van Straelen, Modern Japanese Religions
- Brannen, Noah S.
  
  False Religions, Forced Conversions, Iconolasm
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Joseph L. Van Hecken, The Catholic Church in Japan since 1859
- Motomochi Kyōko
  
  Review of: Hiyane Antei, Sho-shūkyō jiten
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Japan Overseas Advertiser Co., Japanese Universities and Colleges, with Major Research Institutes
- Masutani Fumio
  
  Review of: Hōzōkan Henshūbu, Modern Buddhism
- Motomochi Kyōko
  
  Review of: Yutaka Iwamoto, Bukkyō nyūmon
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Research Office of the Union of New Religious Organization in Japan, Sengo Shūkyō Kaisō Roku
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Religious Affairs Section of Ministry of Education, Shūkyō nenkan
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Religious Affairs Section of Ministry of Education, Nihon no shūkyō
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: H. Kern, Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: James Legge, The I Ching
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: T. W. Rhys Davids, The Questions of King Milinda
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: S. G. F. Brandon, Man and his Destiny in the Great Religions
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: F. Th. Stcherbatsky, Buddhist Logic
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Shōkō Watanabe, Japanese Buddhism: A Critical Appraisal
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: The Urantia Book
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Review of: Hashimoto Tatsumi, Sosen sūhai to nichijō seikatsu
CRJ Volume 5:4 (1964)
- Woodard, William P.
  
  The International Institute for the Study of Religions
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  What is Religion?
- Sonoda Minoru
  
  Review of: Ono Sokyō, Basic Knowledge and Basic Problems of Shinto
- Norman, William H. H.
  
  Kanzō Uchimura -Founder of the Non-Church Movement-
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology (December 1963 - June 1964)
CRJ Volume 4:1 (1963)
- Spae, Joseph J.
  
  The Catholic Church in Japan
- Constitution Investigation Council
  
  The Constitution and Religion (Part 4)
CRJ Volume 4:2 (1963)
- Bellah, Robert N.
  
  The Religious Situation in the Far East
- Tamura Yoshio
  
  What is Religion?
- Constitution Investigation Council
  
  The Constitution and Religion (Part 5)
- Inoue Keiichi
  
  Thoughts of Young Buddhists
- Anon.
  
  Loose Leaves From a Village Priest's Notebook
- Spae, Joseph J.
  
  Clark B. Offner and Henry Van Straelen, The New Religions
- Editorial staff
  
  Questions and Problems: What is the difference between a shadan and a zaidan?
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1962 (October - December)
CRJ Volume 4:3 (1963)
- Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
  
  Religions in Japan
- Callaway, Tucker N.
  
  The Middle Way: The Reality of the Unreal
- Seichō-No-Ie Publications
  
  Seichō-No-Ie
- Deguchi Isao
  
  Ōmoto (Great Foundation)
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  What is Religion?
- Norman, William H. H.
  
  Kanzō Uchimura -Founder of the Non-Church Movement
- Motomochi Kyōko
  
  Chronology for 1963 (January - June)
CRJ Volume 4:4 (1963)
- Ramseyer, Robert
  
  The Soka Gakkai and the Japanese Local Elections of 1960
- Moroi Yoshinori
  
  Tenri-Kyō: Some Misconceptions Corrected
- Nakayama Shōzen
  
  On the Doctrine of Tenri-kyō
- Norman, William H. H.
  
  Kanzō Uchimura
- Hammer, R. J.
  
  Review of: Masaharu Anesaki, Religous Life of the Japanese People
- Hammer, R. J.
  
  Review of: Delwin B. Schneider, Konkō-kyō: A Japanese Religion
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Delwin Schneider, A Konkō-kyō Minister's Comments
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Raymond Hammer, Japan's Religious Ferment
- Uyttendaele, Francis F.
  
  Review of: Werner Kohler, Die Lotus-Lehre und die modernen Religionen in Japan
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: Richard A. Gard, Great Religions of Modern Man
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of: The Society for International Cultural Relations, Bibliography of Standard Reference Books for Japanese Studies with Descriptive Notes, Vol. IV, Religion
- Woodard, William P.
  
  F. Max Muller, The Sacred Books of the East;: The Upanisads and The Texts of Taoism
CRJ Volume 3:1 (1962)
- Ōtani Kōshō
  
  Buddhism for Our Time [3-17]
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Religion in Japan in 1961 [18-41]
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Religion and Modern Life II [42-66]
- International Institute for the Study of Religions
  
  A Statistical Survey of Religions in Japan (Continued) [67-99]
CRJ Volume 3:2 (1962)
- Constitution Investigation Council
  
  The Constitution and Religion (Part 1)
- Tenkō-Kyō
  
  Tenkō-Kyō [116-121]
- Hibbard, Esther Lowell
  
  Refutation of Deus by Fabian (Part 1)
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Religion and Modern Life II [151-164]
- Ōishi Shūten
  
  Review of: Masatoshi Doi, Yasuo Mizoguchi and Sakae Kobayashi, Nihon ni okeru Kirisuto-kyō to Nihon no Sho-shūkyō to no Sesshoku no Mondai
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Carl Mchalson, Japanese Contributions to Christian Theology [176-180]
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Dr. Enkichi Kan, Revelation and Reason [180-184]
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1961 (July - September) [185-192]
- International Institute for the Study of Religions
  
  A Statistical Survey of Religions in Japan (Continued) [193-204]
CRJ Volume 3:3 (1962)
- Bellah, Robert N.
  
  Traditional Values and the Modernization of Japan [207-219]
- Constitution Investigation Council
  
  The Constitution and Religion (Part 2)
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  What is Religion? [234-246]
- Brannen, Noah S.
  
  The Teachings of Soka Gakkai [217-263]
- Hibbard, Esther Lowell
  
  Refutation of Deus by Fabian (Part 2)
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1962 (January - March) [275-279]
- Editorial staff
  
  1961 Statistics of the Union of New Religious Organizations [280-290]
CRJ Volume 3:4 (1962)
- Yasumoto Tōru
  
  Buddhism and the Japanese Mind [291-313]
- Constitution Investigation Council
  
  The Contitution and Religion (Part 3)
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  What is Religion?
- Hibbard, Esther Lowell
  
  Refutation of Deus by Fabian (Part 3)
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1962 (April - September)
- Editorial staff
  
  1959-1960 Statistics Compared
CRJ Volume 2:1 (1961)
- Ikado Fujio
  
  The Origin of the Social Status of Protestant Christianity in Japan [1-29]
- Kamomiya Jōkai
  
  Rissho Kosei Kai [30-38]
- Schneider, Delwin B.
  
  Konkō-Kyō: A Religion of Mediation
- Brannen, Noah S.
  
  A Visit to the Soka Gakkai Headquarters [55-62]
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Religion and Modern Life II [63-76]
- Bush, Richard
  
  Review of Japanese Association for Religious Studies and the Japanese Organizing Commiitee of the Ninth International Congress for the History of Religions, Religious Studies in Japan (2) [77-80]
- Editorial Staff
  
  Review of: 1961 Buddhist Year Book 仏教大年鑑
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Frank Cary, History of Christianity in Japan 1859-1908 [82]
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of R.P. Dore, City Life in Japan: Life in a Tokyo Ward [82-84]
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Questions and Problems [85-92]
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1960 (October - December) [93-96]
CRJ Volume 2:2 (1961)
- Kudō Takuya
  
  The Faith of Soka Gakkai [1-12]
- Brannen, Noah S.
  
  A Visit to Taisekiji, Head Temple of Soka Gakkai [13-29]
- Ikado Fujio
  
  The Origin of the Social Status of Protestant Christianity in Japan (1859-1918) [30-68]
- Downs, Darley
  
  Review of: Yorke Allen, Jr., A Seminary Survey
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of John Clark Archer, Faith Men Live By [79-80]
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Charles S. Braden, The World's Religions [80-81]
- Editorial staff
  
  Questions and Problems [82-85]
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1961 (January - March) [86-89]
CRJ Volume 2:3 (1961)
- Masutani Fumio
  
  A Modern Japanese Buddhist's Faith [1-25]
- Kitamura Sayo
  
  Tensho Kotai Jingu-Kyo (The Dancing Religion) [26-42]
- Kitamura Sayo
  
  Tensho Kotai Jingu-Kyo (2) [43-47]
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Religion and Modern Life II [48-66]
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Review of: John Lewis, The Religions of the World Made Simple
- Verwilghen, A. F.
  
  Review of Yorke Allen, Jr., Major Seminaries of the Roman Catholic Church
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Benson Y. Landis, World Religions [80]
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Questions and Problems [81-82]
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1961 (April - June) [83-88]
CRJ Volume 2:4 (1961)
- National Broadcasting Corporation Program
  
  The Religious Viewpoint of the Japanese Layman [1-24]
- International Institute for the Study of Religions
  
  A Statistical Survey of Religions in Japan [25-106]
CRJ Volume 1:1 (1960)
- Kishimoto Hideo and Woodard, William P.
  
  From the Editorial Board, From the Editor
- Nishitani Keiji
  
  The Religious Situation in Present-Day Japan
- Ōshima Yasumasa
  
  Religion and Morality
- Hirai Naofusa
  
  The Principles of Shrine Shinto
- (Institute Study)
  
  Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Sho Sect (Part 1)
- Brown, Delmer M.
  
  Review of: ]. Edward Kidder, Jr., Japan, Before Buddhism
- Brown, Delmer M.
  
  Review of :Winburn T. Thomas, Protestant Beginnings in Japan; Charles W. Iglehart, A Century of Protestant Christianity in Japan
- Masutani Fumio
  
  Review of: Matsunaga Reiho, The Soto Approach to Zen
- Woodard, William P.
  
  The Religious World in Japan [78-83]
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1959
- Editorial staff
  
  Soka Gakkai and Temple Cemeteries
- Editorial staff
  
  Religious Statistics
- Translations and Official Documents
  
  The Japanese Constitution: Articles concerning religion and related human rights
CRJ Volume 1:2 (1960)
- Tanigawa Tetsuzō
  
  National Character and Religion
- Ashizu Yoshihiko
  
  The Shinto Directive and the Constitution: From the Standpoint of a Shintoist
- McFarland, H. Neill
  
  The New Religions of Japan
- (Institute Study)
  
  Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Sho Sect (Part 2)
- Furuta Shōkin
  
  Review of: Chang Chen-chi, The Practice of Zen
- Ōishi Shūten
  
  Review of: Takagi Hiroo, The Newly Established Religions in Japan
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Japan National Commission for UNESCO, Japan: Its Land, People, and Culture
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Fujisawa Chikao, Concrete Universality of Japanese Way of Thinking
- Editorial staff
  
  Question and Problems
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1960 (January - March)
- Editorial staff
  
  Religious Statistics
- Translations and Official Documents
  
  The Shinto Directive
CRJ Volume 1:3 (1960)
- Kishimoto Hideo
  
  The Problem of Religion and Modernization in Japan
- Yuasa Tatsuki
  
  PL (Perfect Liberty)
- McFarland, H. Neill
  
  The New Religions of Japan
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Religion and Modern Life II
- Masunaga Reiho
  
  Review of: Sohaku Ogata, Zen for the West
- Iglehart, Charles
  
  Review of: Ono Sokyō, The Kami Way: An Introduction to Shrine Shinto
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Donald Keene, Living Japan
- Woodard, William P.
  
  Review of Robert E. Hume, The World's Living Religions
- Editorial staff
  
  Questions and Problems
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1960 (April - June)
- Translations and Official Documents
  
  Ministry of Welfare Notification: Interpretation of Article 13 regarding cemeteries and Interment
CRJ Volume 1:4 (1960)
- (Panel Discussion)
  
  The Japanese and Religion
- Fujieda Masakazu
  
  The Church of World Messianity
- Tamura Yoshirō
  
  Religion and Modern Life II
- McFarland, H. Neill
  
  The New Religions of Japan
- Bush, Richard
  
  Review of Japanese Association for Religious Studies and the Japanese Organizing Commiitee of the Ninth International Congress for the History of Religions, Religious Studies in Japan [70-74]
- Tamura Yoshio
  
  Review of: Eisho Kawasaki, Sakiji Kawashiguma, and Chiko Sanada, Social Function of the Buddhist Temple
- Murano Senchū
  
  Japanese Buddhism and World Buddhism [76-81]
- Editorial staff
  
  Chronology for 1960 (July - September) [82-91]