japanese religions continuity experience

books:

The History of Religions: Understanding Human Experience (Studies in Religion)
Joseph M. Kitagawa

An American Academy of Religion Book, 1987

This volume collects essays by the renowned scholar and historian of religion Joseph M. Kitagawa. The collection is organized into three parts. Part one presents essays examining such topics as the history of the discipline, its place in the academy, and some of its basic categories and tenets. Part two offers what Kitagawa calls studies in "applied history of religions." These essays demonstrate how insights derived from the practice of the ...

Religion in Japanese History (Lectures on the History of Religions New Series)
Joseph M. Kitagawa

Columbia University Press, 1966

Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II.

Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change (The Haskell Lectures on History of Religions)

1 review
Ichiro Hori

University Of Chicago Press, 1994

Good reading
Very informative, but a bit dry in places. Personally I like that, but another person may be put off by it.