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Professor Ian Reader

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Chapter
  2. 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

  3. Journal article
  4. Published

    Murder on the Tokyo subway: nerve centres, religion and violence

    Reader, I., 2013, In: Space and Polity. 17, 3, p. 377-392 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Published

    Competing for the apocalypse: religious rivalry and millennial transformations in a Japanese new religion

    Baffelli, E. & Reader, I., 2011, In: International Journal for the Study of New Religions. 2, 1, p. 5-28 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Perspective Chronologies, Commonalities and Alternative Status in Japanese New Religious Movements Defining NRMs outside the Western Cul-de-sac

    Reader, I. J., 11/2005, In: Nova Religio. 9, 2, p. 84-96 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Of religion, nationalism and ideology: analysing the development of religious studies in Japan

    Reader, I. J., 04/2005, In: Social Science Japan Journal. 8, 1, p. 119-124 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Ten years on : Aum and the Tokyo subway attack

    Reader, I. J., 03/2005, In: Kansai Time Out. 2005, p. 7-10 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Identity, Nihonjinron, and academic (dis)honesty.

    Reader, I. J., 2003, In: Monumenta Nipponica. 58, 1, p. 103-116 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Published

    Spectres and shadows : Aum Shinrikyo and the road to Megiddo.

    Reader, I. J., 2002, In: Terrorism and Political Violence. 14, 1, p. 145-186 42 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shifts and moral panic in the post-Aum era.

    Reader, I. J., 04/2001, In: Nova Religio. 4, 2, p. 225-234 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Scholarship : Aum Shinrikyo and integrity.

    Reader, I. J., 04/2000, In: Nova Religio. 3, 2, p. 368-382 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Bakku tsu za fyucha : Nihon shukyo ni okeru nosutarujia to saisei no imeji.

    Reader, I. J., 02/2000, In: Bukkyo. 49, p. 50-62 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Editorial
  20. Published

    Impact and ramifications: the aftermath of the Aum Affair in the Japanese religious context

    Baffelli, E. & Reader, I., 2012, In: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 39, 1, p. 1-28 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  21. Working paper
  22. Published
  23. Book
  24. Published

    Pilgrimage: a very short introduction

    Reader, I., 23/04/2015, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 144 p. (Very Short Introductions)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  25. Published

    Pilgrimage in the marketplace

    Reader, I., 1/11/2013, New York : Routledge. (Routledge Series on Religion, Travel and Tourism)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  26. Published

    Japanese religions on the Internet: innovation, representation and authority

    Baffelli, E. (ed.), Reader, I. (ed.) & Staemmler, B. (ed.), 2011, New York: Routledge. 228 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  27. Published

    Making pilgrimages : meaning and practice in Shikoku

    Reader, I. J., 2005, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 350 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  28. Published

    Religious violence in contemporary Japan : the case of Aum Shinrikyo.

    Reader, I. J., 2000, Richmond: Curzon Press. 304 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  29. Published

    Japanese influences and presences in Asia.

    Soderberg, M. & Reader, I. J., 2000, London: Curzon Press.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  30. Published

    Practically religious: worldly benefits and the common religion of Japan

    Reader, I. & Tanabe, G., 1998, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 303 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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