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Professor Ian Reader

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Published

    Ideology, adademic inventions and mystical anthropology.

    Reader, I. J., 2003, In: Japan Anthropological Workshop Newsletter. 36, p. 73-94 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Local histories, anthropological interpretations, and the study of a Japanese pilgrimage.

    Reader, I. J., 2003, In: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 30, 1-2, p. 119-132 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Chance, fate, and undisciplined meanderings : a pilgrimage through the fieldwork maze.

    Reader, I., 2003, Doing fieldwork in Japan. Bestor, T. C., Seinhoff, P. G. & Bestor, V. L. (eds.). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, p. 89-105 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  4. Published

    Killing for salvation : Aum Shinrikyō and the perils of religion.

    Reader, I., 2003, Promise and peril: the paradox of religion as resource and threat. Lannstrom, A. (ed.). 24 ed. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Nortre Dame Press, p. 87-105 19 p. (Boston University studies in philosophy and religion).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  5. Published

    Contemporary Zen Buddhist tracts for the laity: grassroots Buddhism in Japan (Commentary and translation).

    Reader, I., 1999, Religions of Japanese in practice. Tanabe, G. J. (ed.). Princeton University Press, p. 487-498 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  6. Published

    Imagined persecution: Aum Shinrikyo, millennialism and the legitimation of violence.

    Reader, I., 2000, Millennialism, persecution, and violence : historical cases. Wessinger, C. (ed.). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, p. 138-152 15 p. (Religion and politics).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  7. Published

    Legends, miracles, and faith in Kobo Daishi and the Shikoku pilgrimage (commentary and translation of Shinnen's 'Shikoku Henro Kudokuki' of 1690.

    Reader, I., 1999, Religions of Japanese in practice. Tanabe, G. J. (ed.). Princeton University Press, p. 360-369 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  8. Published

    Secularisation R.I.P? Nonsense! the ‘rush hour away from the gods’ and the decline of religion in contemporary Japan

    Reader, I., 2012, In: Journal of Religion in Japan. 1, 1, p. 7-36 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Buddhism in Crisis? Institutional decline in modern Japan

    Reader, I., 2011, In: Buddhist Studies Review. 28, 2, p. 233-263 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Globally Aum: the Aum affair, counterterrorism and religion

    Reader, I., 2012, In: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 39, 1, p. 177-196 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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