jueves, 9 de enero de 2014

JOURNAL>New Issue of "Religious Studies in Japan"

 Now online
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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

Enjoy!