Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan
Winner of the 1991 Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship FoundationFinalist for the 1993 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical AssociationWinner of the 1992 Hiromi Arisawa Award, Association of American University Presses"Eloquent and provocative. [This] is one of only a few studies that tackle the question of traditional religions in modernizing Japan."--John Breen,Monumenta Nipponica"A superb narrative about religion in nineteenth-century Japan. . . . One of the best books available that discusses religion in modern Japan."--William R. LaFleur,Journal of Church and State"Well-researched and insightful."--Janine A. Sawada,Journal of Asian Studies.