Table of Contents

A Buddhologist's impression of Japanese Buddhism, Richard Gombrich; Japanese "old", "new" and "new, new" religious movements in Brazil, Peter Clarke; Japanese new religious movements in the West, Jeffrey Somers; Japanese monotheism and new religions, J.H. Kamstra; national and international identity in a Japanese religion, Michael Pye; of priests, protests and Protestant Buddhists - the case of Soka Gakkai International, Brian Backing; Jesus in Japan - Christian syncretism in Mahikari, Catherine Cornille; Myoho Renge Shu - a new Nichiren Buddhist religion and its founder, Tamai Nichirei, Trevor Astley; Japanese new religions in the United States, J. Gordon Melton; the "new, new" religion of Ryugu Otohime, Carmen Blacker; Soto Zen Buddhism in Britain and the United States, Daishin Morgan.

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Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey Somers