Awards

• Commended for Book Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association 1993 (United States)
• Winner of Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 1991 (United States)
• Winner of Hiromi Arisawa Award of the Association of American University Presses 1992 (United States)
• Winner of Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award 1992
• Winner of Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award 1992.
• Winner of Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award 1991.

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Winner of the 1991 Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Finalist for the 1993 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association Winner 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.

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.

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.

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James Edward Ketelaar is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan was a finalist for the Hiromi Arisawa Prize Award given by the American Association of University Presses.

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