Book Chapters
This study examines the processes through which new religious movements that emerged in Japan have evolved from their local roots into religious movements with universal aspirations. Focusing on Japanese new religious movements shaped by the influence of the Shinto tradition, the book explores their beliefs, rituals, forms of leadership, and understandings of mission, while evaluating the relationship between national identity and universality from the perspective of the History of Religions.
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This study comparatively examines the concepts of futuwwa in the Islamic tradition and Bushidō, which represents the Japanese warrior ethos, through historical and phenomenological approaches. It aims to identify the similarities and differences between the understandings of virtue embodied in these two traditions.
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Existence on Water in Japanese Religious Traditions: Being, Transition, and Sacred Legitimation
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The Historical, Religious, and Cultural Foundations of Tabunka Kyōsei in Japan
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Folk Beliefs in the Kökenli Region of Ordu Province
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Typologies of God in Japanese Islam
This study examines conceptions of God shaped within the broader relationship between religion, culture, and identity in modern Japan. The book explores religious discourses that developed under the influence of Japanese nationalism, Pan-Asianism, and processes of modernization, while assessing the perception of Islam in Japan and the historical and typological dimensions of conceptions of God.
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Religious Education in Shintoism
Religious Education in Shinto examines how religious knowledge, values, and ritual practices are transmitted within Shinto. It highlights the close relationship between Shinto, Japanese culture, nature, social rituals, and historical identity, emphasizing the distinctive character of religious education in the Japanese context.
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Classical Texts of Japanese Religions and Approaches to Their Interpretation
Classical Texts of Japanese Religions and Approaches to Their Interpretation is a book chapter that examines the foundational classical texts of Japanese religious traditions and the ways in which these texts can be read and interpreted academically. Taking into account their historical context, language, conceptual structure, and traditions of interpretation, the study offers a methodological approach to the textual sources of Japanese religions.
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Those Who Left and Those Who Remained: Migration, Identity, and the Construction of Culture among Bukharan Jews
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