Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Conventions xix
7. Why Japanese Religions? 1
8. Knowledge Production
9. Knowledge Production 27
10. Sacred Materialities 39
11. Monastic Debate 55
12. Ritual Medicine 69
13. Academia 85
14. Cosmology and Time
15. Cosmology and Time 105
16. Age of Decline 117
17. Hell 135
18. Geomancy 157
19. Science and Religion 167
20. Space and Environment
21. Space and Environment 185
22. Sea 199
23. Mountains 213
24. Migration and Diaspora 229
25. Space and Power in Okinawa 243
26. Animals in Ritual Practices 259
27. Feeling and Belonging
28. Feeling and Belonging 279
29. Confraternities 293
30. Homiletics 307
31. Spiritual Care 323
32. End of Life Care 337
33. Politics and Governance
34. Politics and Governance 351
35. Sovereignty 367
36. The Two Constitutions 377
37. Incarceration and Chaplaincy 391
38. Political Activism 407
39. Electoral Politics 421
40. Fieldwork
41. Perspectives on Fieldwork 439
42. Outer Islands 447
43. Rural Fieldwork 451
44. Religious Industries 455
45. Digital Ethnography 459
46. Disability and Accessibility 463
47. Gender 467
48. Trust 471
49. Resources
50. Resources 477
51. Te Shōsōin Archive 483
52. Databases of Religious Periodicals 491
53. Buddhist Churches of America Collection 497
54. Christian Mission Archives 501
55. Te East Asia Image Collection 505
56. Postscript 511
57. Contributors 513
58. Index 519