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NEW JOURNAL ISSUE> Journal of Religion in Japan 5.2&3 (2016)
by Elisabetta
Porcu
Dear
Colleagues,
Our
apologies for cross-posting.
We
are pleased to announce that the Journal of Religion in Japan (JRJ)
5.2&3 is now available.
Table
of Contents
Special
Issue: Secularity and Post-Secularity in Japan: Japanese Scholars’ Responses
Guest
Editor: Fujiwara Satoko
INTRODUCTION
FUJIWARA
SATOKO
Secularity
and Post-Secularity in Japan: Japanese Scholars’ Responses
ARTICLES
DATE
KIYONOBU
“Religious
Revival” in the Political World in Contemporary Japan with Special Reference to
Religious Groups and Political Parties
NISHIMURA
AKIRA
Are
Public Commemorations in Contemporary Japan Post-secular?
SUMIKA
MASAYOSHI
Behind
the Mask of the Secular: Habermas’s Institutional Translation Proviso and
Japanese Court Cases
TAKAHASHI
HARA
The
Ghosts of Tsunami Dead and Kokoro no kea in Japan’s Religious
Landscape
HORIE
NORICHIKA
Continuing
Bonds in the Tōhoku Disaster Area: Locating the Destinations of Spirits
KIMURA
TOSHIAKI
Revival
of Local Festivals and Religion after the Great East Japan Earthquake
KASAI
KENTA
Introducing
Chaplaincy to Japanese Society: A Religious Practice in Public Space
WATANABE
MASAKO
New
Religions, Depopulation, and the Aging Population: Konkōkyō and Risshō Kōseikai
Contents
Volume 5 (2016)
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We
would also like to take this opportunity to send the Table of Contents of the
first issue published earlier this year
Journal
of Religion in Japan 5.1 (2016)
Editorial
ARTICLES
JAMES
MARK SHIELDS
Peasant
Revolts as Anti-Authoritarian Archetypes for Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan
ŌMICHI
HARUKA
The
“Itako” as Mass Culture: The Occult Boom of the 1970s and 1980s
GWYN
MCCLELLAND
Remembering
the Ruins of the Urakami Cathedral: Providence or Fifth Persecution?
BOOK
REVIEWS
James
Baskind and Richard Bowring (eds.), Myōtei Dialogues: A Japanese Christian
Critique of Native Traditions, by HIGASHIBABA IKUO
Minowa
Kenryō, Nihon bukkyōshi, by BRIAN RUPPERT
David
Quinter, From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in
Medieval Japan, by EMILY SIMPSON
Asuka
Sango, The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in
Heian Japan, by HEATHER BLAIR
Moreover, we are glad to inform you that individuals
are eligible for free access to the Journal of Religion in Japan
until 31 December 2016, using access token JRJ4U. More information can
be found here: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/22118349
We
welcome submissions to the Journal through Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/jrj/
With
our best regards,
The
Editors
Elisabetta
Porcu and James Mark Shields
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Elisabetta Porcu, PhD
University of Cape Town
Department of Religious
Studies
5.52 Leslie Social Sciences
Building
Upper Campus, Rondebosch
7700, South Africa
Tel. +27 (0)21 650 3993
Email: elisabetta.porcu@uct.ac.za
