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Vol.
2
CONTENTS:
OKUYAMA Michiaki, EDITOR’S FOREWORD
REVIEW
ARTICLES
1. Jolyon Baraka THOMAS, The Concept of Religion in Modern
Japan: Imposition, Invention, or Innovation?
2. Micah AUERBACK, Politics
and Scholarship in the Modern Reinvention of Japanese Buddhism
3. Ikuo
HIGASHIBABA, An Art of History, An Art of Comparison: Reconstructing
Christianity in Premodern Japan through Comparative Analysis
BOOK
REVIEWS
1. Inken Prohl and John Nelson, eds., Handbook of Contemporary
Japanese Religions, reviewed by FUJIWARA Satoko
2. Jolyon Baraka Thomas,
Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan, reviewed
by HORIE Norichika
3. Ishii Kenji, ed., The deities of Shibuya and Ishii
Kenji, ed., Where is Shinto going?, reviewed by Elisabetta PORCU
4. Miki
Hizuru and Sakurai Yoshihide, eds., Religious lives of immigrants to Japan: The
multidimensional development of religion brought by newcomers and Society of the
Sociology of Religion, ed., Revisiting the sacred place, Gods in the Ikoma
Mountains: Changing folk religions in the suburb of a big city, reviewed by
OKAMOTO Ryōsuke
The complete issue is downloadable in PDF format.
http://jpars.org/online/view-issue/vol-2-2014
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