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In focusing on what is taught in contemporary Buddhism today in Japan and how Japanese Buddhism seeks to interact with and convey teachings to the wider public, Covell enables us to more fully understand what those Buddhist institutions and the people who are its religious representatives--its priests--understand Buddhism to be; what they say and do is what Buddhism is, and is indicative of its nature as an authentic operative religious tradition. All of this is well argued and is to be highly commended as a way of showing not just what religious traditions do but how they need, especially in modern secular societies such as Japan, to adapt to the frameworks of the societies they seek to influence.--Ian Reader, University of Manchester ""Asian Ethnology""

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Stephen G. Covell is chair of the Department of Comparative Religion and Mary Meader Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University.

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