Bulletin > Volume 26 Religion as a Social Problem: The 11th Nanzan Symposium

Swanson, Paul L.

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In the spring of this year, a symposium on “Religion as a Social Problem” was held at the Nanzan Institute, bringing scholars of religion into dialogue with representatives from the media and the legal profession, all of whom have taken an interest in the question of “cults” in contemporary Japanese society. The papers, responses, and a resume of the discussions are to be published later this year in Japanese. What follows is a brief synopsis of the event.