title: Religion in Contemporary Japan
author:  Ian Reader 
description: Add to your list of books on Japan this remarkable survey of religion. Source: <i>Journal of Japanese Studies</i>
zlib_text: JAPANESE
  RELIGION
  A Survey
  by theAgency for Cultural Affairs
  
  I
  
  JAPANESE
  RELIGION
  A Survey
  by the Agency for Cultural Affairs
  KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD,
  Tokyo, New York & San Francisco
  
  Published by Kodansha International Ltd.,
  12-21, Otowa
  2-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
  112 and Kodansha Interna-
  tional/USA Ltd., with offices at 10 East 53rd Street, New
  York, New York 10022 and The Hearst Building, 5 Third
  Street,
  Suite No.
  400, San
  Francisco,
  California 94103.
  Copyright © 1972 by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. All
  rights reserved. Printed in Japan.
  LCC 72-77795
  ISBN 0-87011-467-0
  ISBN 4-7700-0955-0 (in Japan)
  First edition,
  1972
  First paperback edition,
  1981
  Fourth printing,
  1986
  
  CONTRIBUTORS
  Arai Ken,
  Research Associate, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tokyo. '*Ncw
  Religious Movements."
  Kawawata Yuiken,
  Specialist on the staff of the Religious Affairs Section, Agency for Cultural Affairs,
  Ministry of Education.
  "Religious Organizations
  in Japanese Law." "Shinto
  Organiz