John K. Nelson

Enduring Identities

The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan

Enduring Identities is an attempt to understand the continuing relevance of Shinto to the cultural identity of contemporary Japanese. The enduring sig...

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

What we today call Shinto has been at the heart of Japanese culture for almost as long as there has been a political entity distinguishing itself as J...

A Blessed Company

Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776

In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the ...

Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have col...

Experimental Buddhism

Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan

Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, it is one of the first studies to give readers a sense of what is happening on the front lines ...

Relationship Between Retention Time and Specific Growth Rate in a Municipal Wastewater Under Continuous Flow Conditions

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The Peace Prophets

American Pacifist Thought, 1919-1941

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