New Publication_Journal of Religion in Japan 5.2&3 (2016)

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

Founding Editor, Journal of Religion in Japan (Brill) http://www.brill.com/jrj