Encountering the Japanese religious world
The past in the present : vignettes of Japanese spiritual life
The way of the Kami : Shinto then and now
Interlude : introduction to Buddhism
Early times : pre-Buddhist Japan and how Buddhism arrived
Magic mountains and the old court : Heian Buddhism and its culture
Warrior culture, simple faith : the Kamakura Buddhist reformation
Swords and satori : Zen and its culture
Christ and Confucius : the West arrives, and then Japan turns inward
The rising sun and the dark valley : from the Meiji restoration until 1945
Chanting and dancing : shugendo and the new religions of Japan
Pilgrimages : religion in Japan 1945 to the present.
