NEW JOURNAL ISSUE> Journal of Religion in Japan 7.2 (2018)

Elisabetta Porcu Discussion

Dear Colleagues,

Our apologies for cross-posting.

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Religion in Japan (JRJ) 7.2 has been published. The volume can be viewed at: https://brill.com/view/journals/jrj/7/2/jrj.7.issue-2.xml  

With our best regards,

The Editors

Elisabetta Porcu and James Mark Shields

 

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Journal of Religion in Japan 7.2 (2018) 

CONTENTS

Articles

PAOLA CAVALIERE

Mothers and Moral Activists: Observing Religious Informal Volunteering in Japan

ELISABETTA PORCU

Religion, Second Modernity and Individualization in Japan

JAMES MARK SHIELDS

After the Fall: Tsuji Zennosuke and the Creation of Bukkyōshugi kokushi

 

Book reviews

Michael Dylan Foster, The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, by JANE MARIE LAW

G. Clinton Godart, Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan, by CHRISTOPHER HARDING

Bryan D. Lowe, Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan, by IRIS ZHANG

Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter (eds.), Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements, by LEHEL BALOGH

Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine (eds.), Zen and Material Culture, by KOMEI SAKAI

 

 

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Dr. Elisabetta PorcuSenior Lecturer in Asian ReligionsUndergraduate ConvenerUniversity of Cape TownDepartment of Religious StudiesEmail: elisabetta.porcu@uct.ac.zawww.uct.academia.edu/ElisabettaPorcuDirector, Center for the Study of Asian Religions (CSAR)
Founding Editor, Journal of Religion in Japan(Brill)http://www.brill.com/jrj