About the Author

Helen Hardacre, Ph.D. (1980) in History of Religions, University of Chicago, is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Society and Religions, Harvard University. She has published extensively on modern Japanese religious history, including new religions movements and religion and the state.
Adam L. Kern is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Reviews

'This is a welcome addition to every Japanese library, institutional and personal...This current volume from Brill is a scholarly and provocative complement ...[The six volumes of the Studies in the Modernization of Japan from Princeton in the 1960s and 1970s]...This is the dynamic of history as inquiry.'
H.J. Jones, Pacific Affairs, 1998.
'In short, this volume is a veritable treasure trove for anyone interested in Meiji Japan.'
Marvin Marcus, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1998.