Cumulative list of essays published in the
Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture

Volumes 1–33 (1977–2009)

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ARAI, Paula
Sōtō Zen Nuns in Modern Japan: Keeping and Creating Tradition [14:38–51] (reprinted in Religion and Society in Modern Japan)
 
CARRASCO, Davíd
America's Americas: The Brown Millennium, Three Arché, and the Ecumenopolis [24:38–47]
 
CHILSON, Clark
Buddhists under Cover: Why a Secretive Shinshð Society Remains Hidden Today [23:18-28]
 
DORMAN, Benjamin
DUMOULIN, Heinrich
FUCHIGAMI Kyōko
Faith Healing in Korean Christianity: The Christian Church in Korea and Shamanism [16:33–59]
 
GOODALL, Jane
We Can Change the World: Building Bridges of Hope [31:20–30]
 
HARESAKU Hidemi
Encounter with an Empathetic, Personal God: A Seminar on Shingon Mikkyō [11:26–35]
 
GOVOROUNOVA, Alena
Brain Science and Religion: Some Asian Perspectives [33:22–56]
 
HEISIG, James W.
The Manila Conference of Christian Organizations for Interreligious Encounter in Eastern Asia [6:14–26]
In Memoriam: Johannes Hirschmeier (1921–1983) [7:20–27]
The Dialogue Among Religions: Looking Back, Looking — Ahead [17:40–8]
Japanese Shinto’s “Changing of the Shrine”: A Universal Symbol in Particular Attire [18:33–6]
 
HONDA Masaaki
The Road to a Theology of Soku [22:59–74]
 
HONDA Sōichirō
Shinto in Japanese Culture [8:24–30]
 
HORI, Victor Sōgen
Translating the Zen Phrase Book [23:44-58]
 
HORO Atsuhiko
Kyoto School Philosophy: A Call for a Paradigm Shift in Philosophy [16:15–32]
 
INOUE Masao
Where is this “Western” Japan of Ours Going? [17:36–9]
 
ISHIWAKI Yoshifusa
In Dialogue with the Religions of Japan: A Report on a Seminar for Catholic Seminarians [10:27–31]
 
KAHTERAN, Nevad
Philosophia Perennis in the Bosnian Spirit [30:49–54]
 
KANAI Shinji
Response to Professors Carrasco and Sullivan [24:55–59]
 
KIRCHNER, Thomas
The 2003 East-West Spiritual Exchange [28:19–36]
 
KISALA, Robert
Sōka Gakkai, Kōmeitō, and the Separation of Religion and State in Japan [18:7–17]
Aum Alone in Japan: Religious Responses to the Aum Affair [19:6–34]
Living in a Post-Aum World [20:7–18]
Survey on Prayer and Clerical Vocations [21:16-31]
Asian Values Study [23:59-74]
Images of God in Japanese New Religions [25:19-32]
International Conference on Values Research [28:58-62]
 
KOPF, Gereon
Between Foundationalism and Relativism: Locating Nishida's "Logic of Basho" on the Ideological Landscape [27:24–45]
 
MACÉ, François
The Funerals of the Japanese Emperors [13:26–37]
 
MAEKAWA Michiko
Japanese Society and Religion on the Eve of the 21st Century [25:43–54]
The Politics and Culture of Contemporary Religion in Japan [26:44-59]
Religion in Japan 2002: Shunning Religion, Questioning National Identity [27:9-24]
 
MILES, Margaret
Response to Professors Takezawa and Tsuchiya [24:32–37]
 
MUKHOPADHYANA, Ranjana
The Internationalization of Religiious Studies [30:9–15]
 
NAGAKURA Hisako
In Memoriam: Father Vincent-Marie Pouliot, Apostle for Intellectuals in Japan (1913–1978) [3:29–31]
 
NOGUCHI Tsuneki
Religion and its Relation to Politics in Japan and the United States [2:28–39]
 
ODAGAKI Masaya
Christianity and Buddhism: Thoughts on the Possibility of Dialogue [22:41–58]
 
OKUYAMA Michiaki
Spiritual Quests in Contemporary Japanese Writers: Oe Kenzaburo and Murakami Haruki Around 1995 [25:33–42]
Religious Nationalism in the Modernization Process: State Shinto and Nichirenism in Meiji Japan [26:19-31]
 
ROBERT, Jean-Noël
Hieroglossia: A Proposal [30:25–48]
Reflections on Kokoro in Japanese Buddhist Poetry: A Case of Hieroglossic Interaction [31:31–39]
 
SAEKI Shōichi
Is a Shinto Renewal Possible? [17:32–5]
 
SASAKI Shōten
Shinshū and Folk Religion: Toward a Post-Modern “Shinshū Theology” [12:13–35]
 
SMITH, Robert J.
Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan [7:30–40]
 
SULLIVAN, Lawrence E.
Values and Risks of International Collaborations on the Study of Religion [24:48–54]
 
SUMI Akiko
The Challenges of Religious Pluralism and Dialogue: The West, the Middle East, and Japan [32: 31–9]
 
SWANSON, Paul L.
Report on the Mo Ho Chih Kuan Translation Project [15:13–20]
Dry Dust, Hazy Images, and Missing Pieces [23:29-43]
Report on the 25th Anniversary Symposium [24:60–61]
Religion as a Social Problem: The 11th Nanzan Symposium [26:8-18]
 
SWYNGEDOUW, Jan
Japan’s Religious Science, (1978–1979): Illustrations of a Trend [3:15–24]
Japan at the Beginning of the Eighties [4:19–29]
Contemporary Japanese Religiosity [5:9–16]
Japanese Religions and the Anti-Nuclear Movement [6:17–41]
The Universal and the Particular in Religion [7:15–19]
The Quiet Reversal: A Few Notes on the NHK Survey of Japanese Religiosity [9:24–35]
In Memoriam Clemens Anzai Shin (1923-1988) [22:75–77]
 
TAKEDA Ryūsei
Mutual Transformation of Pure Land Buddhism and Christianity: Methodology and Possibilities in the Light of Shinran's Doctrine [22:640–26]
 
TAKEZAWA Shõichirõ
  Can Religious Studies be a Social Science? [24:22–31]
 
TSUCHIYA Hiroshi
        "Religious Studies" in Japan and Future Prospects [24:8–21]
 
TSUCHIDA Tomoaki
Bioethics and Japanese Attitudes to Life and Death: A Forum on Bioethics and Some Reflections [10:19–26]
 
TSUJIMURA Shinobu
The Voices and the Silence of Contemporary Religious Leaders [28:9-18]
The Marginalization of Religion in Japan Today [29:27–41]
Religious Issues in Japan 2005 [30:16-24]
Religious Issues in Japan 2006: The Potential Social Role of Religion [31:40-59]
Religious Issues in Japan 2007 Religion in a Consumer Society: In the Shadow of Spirituality [32: 40–54]
 
TSUKADA Hotaka
        "Religious Issues in Japan 2008: Religion as a "Social Problem" [33:60–74]
 
VAN BRAGT, Jan
A Buddhist-Christian Symposium: Religious Experience and Language [1:28–36]
Mass and Elite in Religion [2:4–14]
In Memoriam: Ariga Tetsurō (1899–1977) [2:24–7]
East-West Spiritual Exchange: A Project [3:7–12]
East-West Spiritual Exchange: A Report on a Project [4:8–18]
Absolute Nothingness and God: The Nishida-Tanabe Tradition and Christianity. [5:29–47]
East-West Spiritual Exchange II [8:10–23]
Historical Religion and Folk Religion: Shingon Buddhism and Christianity [9:11–23]
After Ten Years… [10:10–18]
Nanzan Symposium IV: Theory and Practice in Religion: Tendai Buddhism and Christianity [11–25]
Salvation and Enlightenment: Pure Land Buddhism and Christianity [14:14–37]
An Uneven Battle: Sōka Gakkai vs. Nichiren Shōshū [17:15–31]
In Memoriam: Nishitani Keiji (1900–1990) [15:45]
World Religion: Its Conditions and Tasks [18:18–32]
In Memoriam: Heinrich Dumoulin (1905–1995) [20:32–3]
Christian Theology Learning from Buddhism [21:7-15]
Contributions of Buddhism to Christianity [23:6-17]
In memoriam: Takeuchi Yoshinori (1913–2002) [26:60-62]
 
WATANABE Manabu
The Psyche and the Experiential World [15:21–27]
Reactions to the Aum Affair: The Rise of the “Anti-Cult” Movement in Japan [21:32-48]
In memoriam: Thomas Immoos (1918–2001) [26:63-65]
The American Academy of Religion and the Japanese Association for Religious Studies: A Report on the “Focus on Japan” at the 2003 AAR in Atlanta [28:37-50]
Aum Shinrikyō and its Use of the Media [29:42–53]
In memoriam: Yuasa Yasuo (1925–2005) [30:55–61]
Rescue, Recover, and Religion: Nanzan Symposium 14. Humanitarian Aid and Spiritual Care in a Time of Crisis [33:11–21]
 
Newspapers
Shrine Shinto Looks towards the Future (excerpted from the Chūgainippō) [1:9–26]
The Death of an Emperor: Reactions in the Religious Press of Japan [13:10–25].
 
 

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