Why Are the Japanese Non-Religious?: Japanese Spirituality: Being Non-Religious in a Religious Culture
Toshimaro Ama is widely acknowledged in Japan as a leading scholar of Japanese religions in the modern and contemporary periods. His questions about the nature of religion in general, and Japanese religion in particular, have offered a model for understanding how the Japanese case illuminates works of religiosity, especially in modernity and beyond. (Duncan Ryuken Williams, University of California, IrvineFrom The Foreword)