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Papers

(The median citation count of Japanese Journal of Religious Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Rin Ushiyama, Aum Shinrikyō and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory	3
Opening the Curtains on Popular Practice: <em>Kaichō</em> in the Meiji and Taisho Periods	1
Korea in the <em>Kamiyo</em>: Locating Korea in the Age of the Gods Narratives in Early Modern Japan	1
Traversing the Natural, Supernatural, and Paranormal: Yōkai in Postwar Japan	1
Epilogue: Japanese Religions and their Contributions to One Woman’s Identity	1
Why Teach Religion?: Scholars of Religion and Education Policy in Postwar Japan	1
The Cultural Meaning of Setsuwa: Ono no Takamura’s Journey to Hell and Back	0
Japanese Buddhist War Support and the <em>Kanchō</em> System	0
The <em>JJRS</em> and the Study of Japanese Religions	0
From Shinto Sect to Religion: The De-Shintoization of Tenrikyo	0
Religious Change in Modern Japanese Society: Established Religions and Spirituality	0
Reflections on Esoteric Hegemony in Medieval Japan and the Modern Academy	0
Disease, Defilement, and the Dead: Buddhist Medicine and the Emergence of Corpse-Vector Disease	0
The Study of Japanese Religions Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on the History of the <em>JJRS</em>	0
Of Separate Places: <em>Bessho</em> in Early Medieval Japan	0
Rethinking the Interdependence of Buddhism and the State in Late Edo and Meiji Japan	0
Defilement, Outcasts, and Disability in Medieval Japan: Reassessing Oguri and Sermon Ballads as Regenerative Narratives	0
Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking “Japanese Religion” in the Anthropocene	0
Echoes of the Pure Land: The Sonic Imaginary of <em>Utsuho Monogatari</em>	0
Review of: Paul Groner, <em>Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai</em>	0
New Religions in Kōshien: Religious Identity and High School Baseball	0
From Disciples to Dissidents: Student Protests and Reform Movements in Meiji-Era Buddhist Universities	0
Speech, Text, and Reality: <em>Kokugaku</em> and the Buddhist Roots of Japanese Philology	0
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Revealing the Miraculous: Objects Placed inside the Statue of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon	0

We are Warriors for the Movement: Misogi Training in the Imperial Rule Assistance League	0
Editors' Introduction: Half a Century of the <em>Japanese Journal of Religious Studies</em	0
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Review of: Karli Shimizu, <em> Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire</em>	0
Review of: Garrett L. Washington, <em>Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan</em>	0
The Politics of Essence: Towards a History of the Public Study of Buddhism in 1880s Japan	0
Becoming Kannon: Daidō Chōan, Guzeikyō, and Buddhist Reform in Meiji Japan	0
Tokugawa Japan From the “Outside” and the Inside: <em>Wagaku</em> and Kokugaku, Etics and Emics, Nationalism and Exceptionalism	0
Constructing Identities through the Shikoku Pilgrimage	0
On the Verge of Damnation and Buddhahood: Motherhood, Female Corporeality, and Koan Exegesis	0
Review of: Caleb Swift Carter, <em>A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi</em>	0
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Review Discussion: Religion, Politics, and the Law in Postwar Japan	0
Kami and Buddhist Poems in Imperial Waka Anthologies	0
Shards from a Wooden Shoe Shop: Religious Experience, Historical Change, and Suzuki Daisetsu	0
Spirit Pacification in Imperial Waka Anthologies: The Senzai wakashū and Shinkokin wakashū	0
Reconstructing the Grand Narrative: The Pure Land of <em>Madoka Magica</em>	0
Buddhism in Medieval Japanese Fiction: Personal Reflections	0
Marginalized Myths and Modern Japan: The Interpretive History of Doroumi kōki and Reikai monogatari	0
Saimon Recitations: Two Examples from Oku Mikawa	0
Legitimizing an Evil Teaching: Deguchi Onisaburō and “Superstition” in Modern Japan	0
Editors’ Introduction: Searching for Legitimacy: Tenrikyo, Omoto, and “Marginalized” Religions of Modern Japan	0
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Review of: Yoshida Kazuhiko 吉田一彦, ed., <em>Shinbutsu yūgō no Higashi Ajia shi</em> 神仏融合の東アジア史	0
A Feminist Religion Scholar’s Tribute to the <em>JJRS</em> and NIRC	0
Editor's Introduction: Religion and Identity in Japan since 1940	0
“We Alone Can Save Japan”: Soka Gakkai’s Wartime Antecedents and Its Postwar Conversion Campaign	0
Review of: Timothy O. Benedict, <em>Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan</em>	0
Inari Origin Stories: Crafting Narrative in Medieval Japan	0
Review of: Stephen G. Covell, The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan	0
Prayer for the Devil: Religion and the Regime of Oda Nobunaga	0
Review of: John C. Maraldo, <em>The Saga of Zen History & the Power of Legend</em>	0
The Emergence of Medieval Borders in Kamakura: Sacred Space of Tsurugaoka Hachimangū	0
Editors’ Introduction: Borders, Performance, Deities	0
From Faith-Healing Group to New Religion: The Discursive Formulation of Tenrikyo in Meiji	0