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Professor Ian Reader

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2015
  2. 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

  3. 2013
  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 2012
  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Religion in a Globalized World: Comments and Responses

    Reader, I., 2012, Dynamics in the history of religions between Asia and Europe: encounters, notions, and comparative perspectives . Krech, V. & Steinecke, M. (eds.). Leiden: E. J. Brill, p. 435-452 18 p.

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

  10. 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

  11. 2011
  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Published

    The Shikoku Pilgrimage Online

    Reader, I., 2011, Japanese Religions on the Internet: Innovation, Representation and Authority . Baffelli, E., Reader, I. & Staemmler, B. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 80-100 21 p.

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

  16. Published

    The transformation of failure and the spiritualization of violence

    Reader, I., 2011, Blackwell companion to religion and violence. Murphy, A. (ed.). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 304-319 16 p.

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

  17. 2009
  18. Published

    Bodily punishments and the spiritually transcendent dimensions of violence: a Zen Buddhist example

    Reader, I., 2009, Dying for faith : religiously motivated violence in the contemporary world. Al-Rasheed, M. & Shterin, M. (eds.). London: I. B. Tauris, p. 139-151 13 p.

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

  19. 2006
  20. Published

    Folk religion

    Reader, I. J., 2006, Nanzan guide to Japanese religions. Swanson, P. & Chilson, C. (eds.). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, p. 65-90 26 p.

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

  21. 2005
  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Published

    Gendai sekai ni okeru junrei no koryu : sono imi suru mono (Pilgrimage growth in the modern world : meanings and implications in Japanese)

    Reader, I. J., 2005, Gendai shukyo 2005 : Shukyo fukko no koryu. Tokyo: Tokyodo Shuppan, p. 279-305 27 p.

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

  26. Published

    Gender and ancient Mediterranean religions

    Reader, I. J., 2005, Encyclopedia of religion. Jones, L. (ed.). London: Macmillan Reference USA, p. 3381-3387 7 p.

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

  27. Published

    Historical, new, and 'new' new religions

    Reader, I. J., 2005, A companion to the anthropology of Japan. Robertson, J. (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, p. 431-451 21 p.

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

  28. Published

    Making pilgrimages : meaning and practice in Shikoku

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

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  29. 2003
  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

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