Helen Hardacre

Shinto

A History

Helen Hardacre offers for the first time in any language a sweeping, comprehensive history of Shinto, the tradition that is practiced by some 80% of t...

Shinto and the State, 1868-1988

Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the ...

Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan

Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mi...

Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan

The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming....

Kurozumikyō and the New Religions of Japan

The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming....

Religion and Society in Nineteenth-century Japan

A Study of the Southern Kantō Region, Using Late Edo and Eary Meiji Gazetteers

A detailed analysis of the structure of nineteenth-century Japanese religious institutions...

The Religion of Japan's Korean Minority

The Preservation of Ethnic Identity

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