The following is a list of over 280 academic sources on Japanese religions and religiousness. We suggest using the "Find" feature (Edit - Find - enter key word(s) needed) to find the most relevant sources for your search. In general, one excellent (FREE!) resource is the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.
Ahn, Juhn Y. 2008. “Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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Anderson, Richard W. 1995.“Vengeful Ancestors and Animal Spirits: Personal Narratives of the
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Andreasen, Esben. 1998. Popular
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Arai, Paula Kane Robinson. 1999. Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns. Oxford: Oxford
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Ballhatchet, Helen. 2007. “Christianity and Gender Relationships
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the Unconquered Enemy; Japan's Doctrine of Racial Superiority and World
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Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press.
Bellah, Robert N. 1985. Tokugawa
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Blacker, Carmen 1963. “The Divine Boy in Japanese Buddhism.” Asian Folklore Studies 22:77-88.
Blacker, Carmen. 1975. The
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Bocking, Brian. 2001. The
Oracles of the Three Shrines: Windows on the Japanese Religion. Richmond,
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Bodiford, William M. 1992. “Zen in the Art of Funerals: Ritual
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Borup, Jorn. 2008. Japanese
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Boyd, James. 2004. “Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film
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Breen, John and Mark Teeuwen. 2000. Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami. Honolulu: University of
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Bremen, Jan Van, ed. 1995. Ceremony
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of the World: The Illustrated Guide to Celebrations, Customs, Events, and
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Brooks, Page Anne. 1981. “ 'Mizuko Kuyo’ and Japanese Buddhism.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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Carlquist, Anders. 2010. "The Land-Pulling Myth and Some
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Casal, U.A. 1959.“The Goblin Fox and Badger and Other Witch Animals of Japan.” Folklore Studies 18: 1-93.
Chaline, Eric. 2004. The
book of gods and goddesses: A visual directory of ancient and modern deities.
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Chamberlain, Basil Hall, tr. 1981. Kojiki. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co.
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Clarke, Peter B. 2000. Japanese
New Religions: In Global Perspective. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.
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Como, Michael. 2008. Shotoku:
Ethnicity, Ritual & Violence in Japanese Buddhist Tradition. New York:
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Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press.
Davis, Winston. 1980. Dojo:
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California Press.
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University.
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Ellwood Robert. 1986. “Patriarchal Revolution in Ancient Japan: Episodes from the Nihonshoki Sūjin Chronicle.” Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion
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Press.
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Fisch, Michael. 2001. “The Rise of the Chapel Wedding in Japan:
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Foard, James. 1981. “The Boundaries of Compassion: Buddhism and
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of Asian Studies 16(2): 231-51.
Fujita, Neil S. 1991. Japan's
Encounter with Christianity: The Catholic Mission in Pre-Modern Japan. New
York: Paulist Press.
Fujiwara, Satoko. 2005. “Survey on Religion and Higher Education
in Japan.” Japanese Journal of Religious
Studies 32/2: 353–370
Fujiwara, Satoko. 2007. "Problems of teaching about
religion in Japan: Another textbook controversy against peace." British Journal of Religious Education
29(1): 45-61.
Gacis, Achilles S. C. 2000. Nichiren's
Nationalism: A Buddhist Rhetoric of a Shinto Teaching. Boca Raton:
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Goodhew, Linda and David Loy. 2002. "Momo, Dogen, and the
Commodification of Time." KronoScope
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Graham, Patricia Jane. 2007. Faith
and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005. Honolulu: University of
Hawai’i Press.
Grayson, James Huntley. 2005. "‘Shinto’ and Japanese
popular religion: Case studies of multi-variant practice from Kyushu and
Okinawa." Japan Forum
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Grenard, Jerry L. 2008. "The Phenomenology of Koan Meditation
in Zen Buddhism." Journal of
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Grim, John and Mary Evelyn Grim. 1982. “Viewing the Hana Matsuri
at Shimoawashiro, Aichi Prefecture.” Asian
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Groemer, Gerald. 2007.“Female Shamans in Eastern Japan During the Edo Period.” Asian Folklore Studies 66(1/2): 22-53.
Grotenhuis, Elizabeth. 1999. Japanese
Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography. Honolulu: University of
Hawai'i Press.
Guth, Christine. 1973. The
Arts of Shinto. New York: Weatherhill.
Guthrie, Stewart. 1988. A
Japanese New Religion: Rishōkōsei-kai in a Mountain Hamlet. Ann Arbor, MI:
University of Michigan Center for Japan Studies.
Habito,Ruben L. F. 1999. “Bodily Reading of the Lotus Sutra:
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Hansen, Wilburn. 2007. "Eye on Religion: Shinto and the
Japanese Attitude toward Healing." Southern
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Haraguchi, Takaaki. 2007. "Reflections on H. Richard
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Hardacre, Helen. 1984. Lay
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