Suggestions for further readingGeneralBocking, Brian. A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Richmond, UK: Curzon, 1996).
Bowring, Richard John. The Religious Traditions of Japan, 500–1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Breen, John and Teeuwen, Mark, eds. Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami (Richmond, UK: Curzon, 2000).
Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo. Religion in Japanese History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966).
Overmyer, Daniel L.. Religion in China Today (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Swanson, Paul L. and Chilson, Clark. Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006).
In the beginning: Religion and historyAsad, Talal. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
DuBois, Thomas David (ed.). Casting Faiths: Imperialism and the Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Lopez, Donald S.. Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995).
Masuzawa, Tomoko. The Invention of World Religions, or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Ming China: The fourteenth century's new world orderChang, Kwang-chih. Shang Civilization (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980).
Farmer, Edward L.. Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society Following the Era of Mongol Rule (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995).
Gernet, Jacques. Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
Keightley, David N. and Barnard, Noel. The Origins of Chinese Civilization (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
Lagerwey, John. China: A Religious State (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010).
Mote, Frederick W.. Intellectual Foundations of China (New York: Knopf, 1971).
Poo, Mu-chou. In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998).
Wright, Arthur F.. Buddhism in Chinese History (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1959).
Zürcher, Erik. The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007).
The Buddha and the shōgun in sixteenth-century JapanDobbins, James C.. Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002).
McMullin, Neil. Buddhism and the State in Sixteenth-Century Japan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Toshio, Kuroda. “The Imperial Law and the Buddhist Law,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23, no. 3–4 (1996), 271–85.
Tsang, Carol Richmond. War and Faith: Ikkō ikki in Late Muromachi Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007).
Opportunities lost: The failure of Christianity, 1550–1750Elison, George. Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973).
Minamiki, George. The Chinese Rites Controversy: From Its Beginning to Modern Times (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1985).
Moran, J. F.. The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth- Century Japan (London: Routledge, 1993).
Ricci, Matteo. The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven: T'ien-Chu Shih-I, trans. Lancashire, Douglas and Hu, Guozhen (St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1985).
Ross, Andrew. A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542–1742 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994).
Buddhism: Incarnations and reincarnationsBodiford, William M.. Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993).
Brook, Timothy. Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
Collcutt, Martin. “The Zen Monastery in Kamakura Society” in Mass, Jeffrey P. (ed.), Court and Bakufu in Japan: Essays in Kamakura History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982).
Crossley, Pamela Kyle. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
Franke, Herbert. China under Mongol Rule (Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1994).
Grapard, Allan. “The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo,” Monumenta Nipponica 47, no. 4 (1992), 33–58.
Heine, Steven and Wright, Dale S. (eds.). The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Hur, Nam-lin. Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007).
King, Winston L.. Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Fumiko, Miyazaki. “Religious Life of Kamakura Bushi: Kumagai Naozane and His Descendants,” Monumenta Nipponica 41, no. 4 (1992), 435–46.
Ooms, Herman. Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570–1680 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985).
Apocalypse nowBaumgarten, Albert I.. Apocalyptic Time (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000).
DuBois, Thomas David. The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).
Ownby, David. “Chinese Millenarian Traditions: The Formative Age,” American Historical Review 104, no. 5 (1999), 1513–30.
Spence, Jonathan D.. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996).
Sponberg, Alan and Hardacre, Helen (eds.). Maitreya, the Future Buddha (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Haar, Barend J.. The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992).
Out of the twilight: Religion and the late nineteenth centuryBickers, Robert A. and Tiedemann, R. G.. The Boxers, China, and the World (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Cohen, Paul A.. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Esherick, Joseph. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
Hardacre, Helen. Shinto and the State, 1868–1988 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989).
Ketelaar, James Edward. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990).
Ooms, Emily G.. Women and Millenarian Protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Omotokyo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).
Snodgrass, Judith. Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Suzuki, D. T.. Zen and Japanese Culture (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Into the abyss: Religion and the road to disaster during the early twentieth centuryDirlik, Arif. “The Ideological Foundations of the New Life Movement: A Study in Counterrevolution,” Journal of Asian Studies 34, no. 4 (1975), 945–80.
Eastman, Lloyd E.. “Fascism in Kuomintang China: The Blue Shirts,” China Quarterly, no. 49 (1972), 1–31.
Garon, Sheldon M.. “State and Religion in Imperial Japan, 1912–1945,” Journal of Japanese Studies 12 (1986), 273–302.
Goossaert, Vincent. The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007).
Ion, A. Hamish. The Cross and the Rising Sun, Vol. 2, The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865–1945 (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier, 1993).
Ives, Christopher, Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009).
Victoria, Brian Daizen. Zen at War (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
Welch, Holmes. The Practice of Chinese Buddhism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967).
Brave new world: Religion in the reinvention of postwar AsiaBreen, John. Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).
Husband, William. “Godless Communists”: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917–1932 (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000).
Kisala, Robert and Mullins, Mark. Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society through the Aum Affair (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).
MacInnis, Donald E.. Religion in China Today: Policy and Practice (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989).
Tse-tung, Mao (Mao Zedong). Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, at Marxists Internet Archive (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm).
Marx, Karl. A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm).
Metraux, Daniel Alfred. How Soka Gakkai Became a Global Buddhist Movement: The Internationalization of a Japanese Religion (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2010).
Ownby, David. Falun Gong and the Future of China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Palmer, David A.. Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
Suzuki, Hikaru. The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000).
Welch, Holmes. Buddhism under Mao (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).
The globalization of Asian religionKerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums (New York: Penguin, 1990).
Merton, Thomas. The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1973).
Tworkov, Helen. Zen in America: Five Teachers and the Search for an American Buddhism (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1994).
Whalen-Bridge, John and Storhoff, Gary. The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009).
