Introduction: Tokugawa Religious Orthopraxy and the Phenomenon of Domain Shinto, Bernhard Scheid
Part 1: Tokugawa Orthopraxy
1. Anti-Christian Temple Certification (terauke) in Early Modern Japan: Establishment, Practice, and Challenges, Nam-lin Hur (University of British Columbia, Canada)
2. Ieyasu’s Posthumous Title and the Tokugawa Discourse on “Divine Country," Sonehara Satoshi (Tohoku University, Japan)

Part 2: Unwanted Religious Groups
3. Anti-Christian Measures and Religious Institutions in the Nagasaki Port City in the Early Edo Period (1614–1644), Carla Tronu (University of Kyoto, Japan)
4. When the Lotus went Underground: the Nichiren Buddhist Fujufuse Movement and its Early Modern Persecution, Jacqueline I. Stone (Princeton University, USA)
5. “Deviant Practices” and “Strange Acts”: Late Tokugawa Judicial Perspectives on Heteropraxy, Kate Wildman Nakai (Sophia University, Japan)

Part 3: Intellectual Challenges
6. Shinto as a Quasi-Confucian Ideology, Inoue Tomokatsu (Saitama University, Japan)
7. Buddhist-Confucian Polemics and the Position of Shinto, W.J. Boot (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
8. Ikeda Mitsumasa and Confucian Ritual, James McMullen (University of Oxford, UK)
9. Calendars and Graves: Shibukawa Harumi’s Critique of Hoshina Masayuki and Yamazaki Ansai, Hayashi Makoto (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)

Part 4: Institutional Challenges
10. Shinto in the 1660s and 1670s: The Shrine Clauses of 1665 as an Expression of Domain Shinto,
Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo, Norway)
11. Domain Shinto and shinto-uke in Okayama-han, Stefan Köck (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
12. “Kami is kami, Buddha is Buddha”: Religious Policies in Mito Domain in the Later 17th Century,
Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
13. Shinto Priests and the Yoshida in Izumi Province, Yannick Bardy (University of Lille, France)
14. Conflicts over Shrine Priests’ Faith and Affiliation: the Shirakawa, Yoshida, and Hirata Atsutane,
Anne Walthall (UC Irvine, USA)

Bibliography

Index

The Shinto tradition is an essential component of Japanese religious culture. In addition to indigenous elements, it contains aspects mediated from Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and, in more recent times, Western religious culture as well—plus, various forms of hybridization among all of these different traditions. Despite its cultural and historical importance, Shinto Studies have failed to attract wide attention partly due to the lingering effects of Japanese ultranationalist propaganda during World War II that made use of aspects of Shinto. The Series makes available to a broad audience a number of important academic works that help dispel widespread misconceptions, according to which Shinto is intrinsically related to Japanese nationalism and constitutes the essence of Japanese culture. By putting such stereotypes into perspective, the series promotes further research and understanding of what is still an underdeveloped field.

Editorial Board
Irit Averbuch, Associate Professor of Japanese Culture, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Erica Baffelli, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Heather Blair, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
John Breen, Professor of Japanese History, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Bernard Faure, Professor of Japanese Religions, Columbia University, New York, USA
Allan Grapard, Professor of Japanese Religions Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University, USA
Sato Hiroo, Professor of Japanese Intellectual History, Tohoku University, Japan
Max Moerman, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions, Barnard College at Columbia University, USA
Bernhard Scheid, Senior Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Mark Teeuwen, Professor of Japanese Cultural history, Oslo University, Norway
Sarah Thal, Associate Professor of Japanese History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA