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It was lovely to get to talk to @olliemox about modern Shinto! As promised, a bibliography with additional sources: (1/15) https://twitter.com/CJS_Uea/status/1362341997428826112
For more on the sticky issue of the concept of "religion" in Japan, you could read Jason Josephson-Storm's The Invention of Religion in Japan
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo13657764.html (2/15)
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo13657764.html (2/15)
Or you could read Trent Maxey's The "Greatest Problem"
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674491991 (3/15)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674491991 (3/15)
Or you could learn more about the concept of religious freedom (in both Japan and the US) by reading Jolyon Thomas's Faking Liberties
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo36844848.html (4/15)
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo36844848.html (4/15)
(For anyone teaching a graduate seminar on either Japanese religion or modern Japanese history, I think reading Thomas + Maxey + Josephson-Storm together could generate some fruitful discussion!) (5/15)
There is also always Helen Hardacre's classic Shinto and the State https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691020525/shinto-and-the-state-1868-1988 (6/15)
Or her newer Shinto: A History https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shinto-9780190621711?cc=us&lang=en& (7/15)
If you want a nice overview of the state of the field (with built in bibliography!), I really like this meta-review by Jolyon Thomas
https://networks.h-net.org/node/20904/discussions/837862/review-jolyon-thomas-studies-shinto (8/15)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/20904/discussions/837862/review-jolyon-thomas-studies-shinto (8/15)
A couple of additional works that aren't included in the above: if you're interested in the relationship between Buddhas and kami, you could read Buddhas and Kami in Japan, ed. Rambelli and Teeuwen
https://www.routledge.com/Buddhas-and-Kami-in-Japan-Honji-Suijaku-as-a-Combinatory-Paradigm/Rambelli-Teeuwen/p/book/9781138965164 (9/15)
https://www.routledge.com/Buddhas-and-Kami-in-Japan-Honji-Suijaku-as-a-Combinatory-Paradigm/Rambelli-Teeuwen/p/book/9781138965164 (9/15)
Or you could look at a case study of Mt. Miwa in Anya Andreeva's Assembling Shinto
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970571 (10/15)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970571 (10/15)
If you're interested in the idea of Shinto as a "nature religion," you could read Aike Rots' Shinto, Nature, and Ideology in Contemporary Japan (or you could tune into Beyond Japan next week to hear him talk about heritage sites!)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shinto-nature-and-ideology-in-contemporary-japan-9781474289931/ (11/15)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shinto-nature-and-ideology-in-contemporary-japan-9781474289931/ (11/15)
If you're interested in Shinto that doesn't fall under the Jinja Honcho umbrella, you could follow @KaitlynUgoretz, who is working on digital Shinto communities! (12/15)
If you want to learn more about female ritualists in shrines before 1871 (and you can read Japanese), check out Odaira Mika's『女性神職の近代』 https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%A5%B3%E6%80%A7%E7%A5%9E%E8%81%B7%E3%81%AE%E8%BF%91%E4%BB%A3%E2%80%95%E7%A5%9E%E7%A5%87%E5%84%80%E7%A4%BC%E3%83%BB%E8%A1%8C%E6%94%BF%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E7%A5%AD%E7%A5%80%E8%80%85%E3%81%AE%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6-%E5%B0%8F%E5%B9%B3-%E7%BE%8E%E9%A6%99/dp/483151232X (13/15)
If you're interested in hearing more about my research on the gendering of the postwar Shinto priesthood, you can check out the public lecture I did at Kyushu University last month: (14/15)
If you've made it to the end of this thread, let me reward (?) you with a behind-the-scenes peek at shrine work: picking all the bugs, dirt, and rocks out of the offering box coins so that we can take them to the post office to run through their coin counter for deposit. (15/15)
