Japanese Religions

Lucia Dolce is a senior lecturer in Japanese Religion and Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is a specialist of Japanese Religions and has spent a considerable time of fieldwork in Japan. She has published widely on different aspects of Japanese religious practice, and is regularly invited to deliver guest lectures at universities in Europe, US and Japan. She has created and has been in charge (since 1999) of the MA in Japanese Religions at SOAS (the only MA programme in Europe focused on Japanese Religions); she teaches three of the options on offer in the programme, including the core course. She is also the chair of the SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions and in this capacity convenes weekly guest lectures and postgraduate seminars, and has organized several international conferences on different aspects of Japanese religiosity.

VOLUME 1: THE CRITICAL DISCOURSE ON JAPANESE RELIGIONS: FIELDS OF ENQUIRT AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES Modern Japan and the Science of Religions - Michael Pye The Establishment of Modern Shintology and the Role of Tanaka Yoshito - Jun'ichi Isomae Buddhism in the History of Japanese Religion: Research History and Research Methods - Fumihiko Sueki Comparative Perspectives on the Emergence of Jind? and Shinto - Mark Teeuwen, Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Religion - State of the Field and Bibliographic Review - Gaynor Sekimori Folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues - Noriko Kawahashi Religious Dimensions of Confucianism: Cosmology and Cultivation - Mary Evelyn Tucker Chronologies, Commonalities and Alternative Status in Japanese New Religious Movements: Defining NRMS outside the Western Cul-De-Sac - Ian Reader Japan's Ignored Cultural Revolution: The Separation of Shinto and Buddhist Divinities In Meiji (shimbutsu bunri) and a Case Study: T?nomine - Allan Grapard The Establishment of Early Modern Buddhism - Satoshi Sonehara The Commercialization of the Sacred: The Structural Evolution of Religious Communities in Japan - Susumu Shimazono "Zen Is Not Buddhism": Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature - Paul Swanson The Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze - Bernard Faure Historiographical Issues in the Studies of the "Christian Century" in Japan - Ikuo Higashibaba New Age and New Spiritual Movements: The role of Spiritual Intellectuals - Susumu Shimazono The Death and Rebirth of Buddhism in Contemporary Japan - George Tanabe, Jr VOLUME 2: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION ORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES The Temple/Juridical Person: Law and the Temple in Japan - Stephen Covell Jinja Honch? and Shrine Shint? policy - Mark Teeuwen Warden + Salaryman + Virtuoso = Priests: Paradigms within Japanese Shinto for Religious Specialists and Institutions - John Nelson The Cult of Mount Atago and the Atago Confraternities - Anne Bouchy POLITICAL AGENCY AND THE STATE The Development of State Ritual in Ancient Japan - Shoji Okada The Emperor's New Robes: Processes of Resignification in Shingon Imperial Rituals - Fabio Rambelli The Imperial Law and the Buddhist Law - Kuroda Toshio Anti-Christian Ideas and National Ideology: Inoue Enryo and Inoue Tetsujiro's Mobilization of Sectarian History in Meiji Japan - Kiri Paramore Protect the Dharma, Protect the Country: Buddhist War Responsibility and Social Ethics - Christopher Ives Nichiren's Activist Heirs: S?ka Gakkai, Rissh? K?seikai and Nipponzan My?h?ji - Jacqueline Stone Constitutional Revision and Japanese Religions - Helen Hardacre Consensus Shattered: Japanese Paradigm Shifts and Moral Panic in the Post-Aum Era - Ian Reader TIME, HISTORY AND MYTH Shortening the Path: Early Tendai Interpretations of the Realization of Buddhahood in This Very Body (Sokushin J?butsu) - Paul Groner On the Use of Prophecy in Mediaeval Japan - Lucia Dolce 1999 and Beyond: The Use of Nostradamus' Prophecies by Japanese Religions - Robert Kisala Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Tezuka Osamu's Hi no Tori (The Phoenix) - Mark MacWilliams VOLUME 3: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION SACRED SPACE Geosophia, Geognosis, and Geopiety: Orders of Significance in Japanese Representations of space - Allan Grapard Mandala, Mandala on the Wall: Variations of Usage in the Shingon School - David Gardiner Mapping the "Divine Country:" Sacred Geography and International Concerns in Mediaeval Japan - Lucia Dolce From Religious Conformity to Innovation: New Ideas of Religious Journey and Holy Places - Nobutaka Inoue The Dead and the Living in the Land of Peace: A Sociology of the Shrine - John Breen LITERARY AND VISUAL NARRATIVES Saigy? and the Buddhist Value of Nature (Part I) - William LaFleur The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination - Caroline Hirasawa Japanese Modern Religious Manga - Matthew Eynon Mapping Sectarian Identity: Onj?ji's Statue of Shinra My?jin - Christine Guth Switching Sites and Identity: The Founder's Statue at the Zen Buddhist Temple K?rin'in - Gregory Levine Buddhist Material Culture, "Indianism," and the Construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in Prewar Japan - Richard Jaffe Art and New Religions: From Deguchi Onisaburo to the Miho Museum - Nancy Stalker GENDERED PRACTICES Trends in the Study of Women and Buddhism - Junko Nishiguchi Jizoku (Priests' Wives) In S?t? Zen Buddhism: An Ambiguous Category - Noriko Kawahashi Strategies of Survival: Women, Abortion, and Popular Religion in Contemporary Japan - Meredith Underwood The Life of Shamanness: Scenes from the Shamanism of Northeastern Japan in Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan - Kunimitsu Kawamura Female Pilgrims and Mt. Fuji: Changing Perspectives on the Exclusion of Women - Fumiko Miyazaki VOLUME 4: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION PERFORMATIVE PRACTICES AND RITUAL DYNAMICS Thinking through Shingon Ritual - Robert Sharf The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amit?bha, "Amida Kei Ai Goma" - Richard Payne Seeking the Pure Land in Heian Japan: The Practices of the Monks of the Nijugo Zammai-e - Robert Rhodes The Akinomine of Haguro Shugendo: A Historical Perspective - Gaynor Sekimori Ritual as an Instrument of Political Resistance in Rural Japan - Scott Schnell The Transformation of Healing in the Japanese New Religions - Helen Hardacre The Worship of Celestial Bodies in Japan: Politics, Rituals and Icons - Lucia Dolce Performing Power: On the Nature of the Japanese Ritual Dance Performance of Yamabushi Kagura - Irit Averbuch Mind and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Religions: Misogi-kyo and Maruyama-kyo - Janine Sawada In Search of a New Interpretation of Ascetic Experience - Massimo Raveri EXORCISING DEATH On Placating the Gods and Pacifying the Populace: The Case of the Gion "Gory?" Cult - Neil McMullin Buy Me a Bride: Death and Exchange in Northern Japanese Bride Doll Marriage - Ellen Schattschneider Shint? Mortuary Rites in Contemporary Japan - Elizabeth Kenney Japanese Christians and the World of the Dead - Mark Mullins Zen in the Art of Funerals: Ritual Salvation in Japanese Buddhism - William Bodiford