Imagining Japan, The Japanese Tradition and its Modern Interpretation.(Book Review)

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Imagining Japan, The Japanese Tradition and its Modern Interpretation, by ROBERT N. BELLAH. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 254 pp., $24.95 (paper).

In the mid-1950s Robert Bellah published Tokugawa Religion, one of the foremost sociological studies of religion in Japan. It employed a primarily Weberian methodology to study not contemporary Japanese religion but Japanese religion before the modern era (pre-1868). It was a seminal book for its time, and in a sense demanded further studies of Japanese religion in other periods and from other perspectives. ...

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