On Being Nonreligious in Contemporary Japan: Decline, Antipathy, and Aversion to Institutions

by Ian Reader and Clark Chilson

Challenging the notion of the nonreligious in Japan being religious through tradition and institution, this book demonstrates how negativity and antipathy for religion relate to religious decline in Japan today.

Although the Japanese say they are nonreligious because they do not identify with a particular religious tradition or institution, they are in fact religious through their traditional practices; New Year's Visits to Shinto...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350541494
• ISBN13: 9781350541498
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"