Christopher Harding Fumiaki Iwata Yoshinaga Shin’ichi
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting: between Japan's long-standing, Chinese-influenced intellectual and institutional forms, and the politics, science, philosophy and religion of the post-Enlightenment West. In striving to craft a modern society and culture that could exist on terms with - rather than be subsumed by - western power and influence, Japan became home to...
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental healt...
