Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa byl předním japonsko-americkým učencem v oboru religionistiky. Byl emeritním profesorem a děkanem Chicagské univerzity. Je považován za jednoho ze zakladatelů oboru dějin náboženství.
This book is about Buddhism and Asian History. This volume contains articles from the Encyclopedia charting the religion's history on the continent from the foundation to the present.
Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II.
Readings from The Encyclopedia of Religion. South and Southeast Asia -- Inner Asia and Tibet -- East Asia. Illustrated with ten maps