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Dessi's volume constitutes an indispensable reference that is already bearing fruit (see the recent contributions in Amstutz and Dessi 2014). - Girardo Rodriguez Plasencia Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Dessi's solid grounding in the Japanese-language scholarship on religion and globalization in Japan, such as by Inoue Nobutaka and Shimazono Susumu, together with his careful incorporation of works by Western scholars of globalization offer an insightful bridge between English-language and Japanese-language scholarship on religion and globalization. Altogether, this book is an excellent introduction to theories of religion and globalization from both Japanese and non-Japanese perspectives and offers the reader a broad window into the various institutional dynamics that shape the ways Japanese religions are articulated with and active agents within global discourses. - Isaac Gagne, Waseda University, Japan

Dessi's volume constitutes an indispensable reference that is already bearing fruit (see the recent contributions in Amstutz and Dessi 2014). Girardo Rodriguez Plasencia Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Altogether, this book is an excellent introduction to theories of religion and globalization from both Japanese and non-Japanese perspectives and offers the reader a broad window into the various institutional dynamics that shape the ways Japanese religions are articulated with and active agents within global discourses. - Isaac GAGNE, Waseda University Dessi skillfully employs an interdisciplinary approach (among others informed by systems theory), always thoroughly positioning his line of argument amid a close reading of relevant original sources. He argues that globalization increasingly patterns the discursive trajectories upon which Japanese religions navigate. In other words, he views religious change, to a growing extent, as the effect of deliberate or unintentional responses to the forces of an evermore globalized environment. Dessi's study is a tour de force, a must read for the student of contemporary East Asian and Japanese religions. Lukas Pokorny Stockholm University, Religious Studies Review * VOLUME 41 * NUMBER 3 * SEPTEMBER 2015

Dessi's volume constitutes an indispensable reference that is already bearing fruit (see the recent contributions in Amstutz and Dessi 2014). Girardo Rodriguez Plasencia Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Altogether, this book is an excellent introduction to theories of religion and globalization from both Japanese and non-Japanese perspectives and offers the reader a broad window into the various institutional dynamics that shape the ways Japanese religions are articulated with and active agents within global discourses. - Isaac GAGNE, Waseda University Dessi skillfully employs an interdisciplinary approach (among others informed by systems theory), always thoroughly positioning his line of argument amid a close reading of relevant original sources. He argues that globalization increasingly patterns the discursive trajectories upon which Japanese religions navigate. In other words, he views religious change, to a growing extent, as the effect of deliberate or unintentional responses to the forces of an evermore globalized environment. Dessi's study is a tour de force, a must read for the student of contemporary East Asian and Japanese religions. Lukas Pokorny Stockholm University, Religious Studies Review * VOLUME 41 * NUMBER 3 * SEPTEMBER 2015

Dessi's volume constitutes an indispensable reference that is already bearing fruit (see the recent contributions in Amstutz and Dessi 2014). Girardo Rodriguez Plasencia Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

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Ugo Dessì is a lecturer at the Institute of Religious Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He has published widely on Shin Buddhism and Japanese religions.

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