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Professor Ian Reader

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Published

    Japan.

    Reader, I. J., 2000, Encyclopedia of millennialism and millennial movements. Landes, R. (ed.). New York: Routledge, p. 198-202 5 p.

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

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

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

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

  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.

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Pilgrimage in the marketplace

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

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    Pilgrimage: a very short introduction

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

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    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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    Religion in contemporary Japan

    Reader, I., 1991, Basingstoke: Macmillan. 275 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

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    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

  25. Published

    Introduction.

    Soderberg, M. & Reader, I. J., 2000, Japanese influences and presences in Asia. Soderberg, M. & Reader, I. J. (eds.). London: Curzon Press, p. 1-21 21 p.

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

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