Ian Reader

Articles

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Back to the future: Images of nostalgia and renewal in a Japanese religious context.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  The rise of a Japanese “New New Religion”: Themes in the development of Agonshū.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  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.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Review of: Miyake Hitoshi, Shūkyō minzokugaku.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

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

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  What constitutes religious activity? (II).

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Review of: Shinno Toshikazu, Nihon yugyō shūkyōron.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  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.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Editors’ introduction.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Review of: Bryan Wilson and Karel Dobbelaere, A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Review of: Donald F. McCallum, Zenkōji and Its Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Editors’ introduction: Pilgrimage in the Japanese religious tradition.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Review of: Scott Schnell, The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Local Histories, Anthropological Interpretations, and the Study of a Japanese Pilgrimage.

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Review of: Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Kōyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Editors’ Introduction. Impact and Ramifications: The Aftermath of the Aum Affair in the Japanese Religious Context

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Globally Aum: The Aum Affair, Counterterrorism, and Religion

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Review of: Inken Prohl and John Nelson, eds., Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

  Constructing Identities through the Shikoku Pilgrimage