Over the next seven weeks I'm reading these gems:
Comprehensive Histories of Japanese Religion: General, Christian, and Confucian Surveys
Anesaki, Masaharu. History of Japanese Religion, with Special Reference to the Social and Moral Life of the Nation. Rutland, Vt.: C. E. Tuttle Co., 1963.
Bowring, Richard John. The Religious Traditions of Japan, 500-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Deal, William E., and Brian Douglas Ruppert. A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism. Wiley Blackwell Guides to Buddhism. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo. Religion in Japanese History. Vol. no. 7. Lectures on the History of Religions, New Series,. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.
Nanjio, Bunyiu. A Short History of the Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects. Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979.
Paramore, Kiri. Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History. Vol. 14. New Approaches to Asian History ; Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Histories of Shinto
Breen, John, and Mark. Teeuwen. A New History of Shinto. Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Series. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Grapard, Allan G. “Linguistic Cubism: A Singularity of Pluralism in the Sannō Cult.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 14, no. 2–3 (June 1987): 211–34.
———. “The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo.” Monumenta Nipponica 47, no. 1 (March 1, 1992): 27–58.
Hardacre, Helen. Shinto: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Kuroda Toshio, James C. Dobbins, and Suzanne Gay. “Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion.” Journal of Japanese Studies 7, no. 1 (1981): 1.
https://doi.org/10.2307/132163.
Sugahara, Shinkai. “The Distinctive Features of Sannō Ichijitsu Shinto.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23, no. 1–2 (1996): 61–84.
Takenaka, Akiko. Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Teeuwen, Mark. A Social History of the Ise Shrines. Divine Capital. Breen, John. Bloomsbury Shinto Studies; Variation: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
———. “From Jindō to Shinto: A Concept Takes Shape.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 29, no. 3–4 (2002): 233–63.
Zhong, Yijiang. The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo. Paperback edition. Bloomsbury Shinto Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Christianity in Japan
Elison, George, Fabian, Christovão Ferreira, and Shōsan Suzuki. Deus Destroyed; the Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan. Vol. 72. Harvard East Asian Series,. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.
Leuchtenberger, Jan C. Conquering Demons: The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature. Vol. Number 75. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2013.
Mullins, Mark. Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1998.
Paramore, Kiri. Ideology and Christianity in Japan. Vol. 4. Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics and History ; London: Routledge, 2009.
Ancient and Classical
Adolphson, Mikael S. The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese History. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
Grapard, Allan G. The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Kidder, J. Edward. Himiko and Japan’s Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178830.
Philippi, Donald L., and Yasumaro Ō. Kojiki. 7th paperback printing. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1995.
Piggott, Joan R. The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Sakamoto, Tarō. The Six National Histories of Japan. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1991.
Medieval and Unification
Adolphson, Mikael S. The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2000.
Andreeva, Anna. Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan. Vol. 396. Harvard East Asian Monographs ; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
McMullin, Neil. Buddhism and the State in Sixteenth-Century Japan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Tsang, Carol Richmond. War and Faith: Ikkō Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
Edo
Bowring, Richard John. In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-Modern Japan, 1582-1860. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Hur, Nam-lin. Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.
Nosco, Peter. Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Ooms, Herman. Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998.
Williams, Duncan Ryūken. The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen: Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Modern
Brownlee, John S. Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, 1999.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11279313.
Chamberlain, Basil Hall. The Invention of a New Religion. Champaign, IL: Book Jungle, 2010.
Isomae, Jun’ichi. Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shinto. Vol. volume 6. Dynamics in the History of Religions,. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Josephson, Jason Ānanda. The Invention of Religion in Japan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Ketelaar, James Edward. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Pacific War and Contemporary
Brian Victoria. Zen at War, Second Edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
Reader, Ian. Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyō. Vol. 82. NIAS Monograph Series ; Richmond: Curzon, 2000.
Rowe, Mark. Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. Buddhism and Modernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, and Richard M. Jaffe. Zen and Japanese Culture. 1st Princeton classic ed. Vol. 64. Bollingen Series ; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Thomas, Jolyon Baraka. Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. Class 200, New Studies in Religion. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Theoretical and Sociological Concerns
Bell, Catherine M. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Berger, Peter L. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.
Certeau, Michel de. The Writing of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Clifford Geertz. “Religion as a Cultural System.” In The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, 87–125. Fontana Press, 1993.
Eliade, Mircea. Myth and Reality. 1st Harper Colophon ed. Vol. CN446. Harper Colophon Books ; New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Foucault, Michel. “Of Other Spaces.” Diacritics 16, no. Spring (1986): 22–27.
James E. Ketelaar. “The Non-Modern Confronts the Modern: Dating the Buddha in Japan.” History and Theory 45, no. 4 (2006): 62.
Kertzer, David I. Ritual, Politics, and Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
McCutcheon, Russell T. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Smith, Jonathan Z. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.