Now in its Second Edition, Introducing Japanese Religion is the ideal
resource for undergraduate students. This edition features new material
on folk and popular religion, including shamanism, festivals, and
practices surrounding death and funerals. Robert Ellwood also updates
the text to discuss recent events, such as religious responses to the
Fukushima disaster. Introducing Japanese Religion includes
illustrations, lively quotations from original sources, learning goals,
summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further
reading, and a glossary to aid study and revision. The accompanying
website for this book is available at www.routledge.com/cw/ellwood.