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| Some Features of Japanese Religious Practices | |
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| Twenty-Year Rotation of the Outer and the Inner Shrines. The Sacred. Buddhism and Shinto. Religion and Art | |
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| Early Historical Developments | |
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| Early Shinto | |
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| Shinto Myth | |
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| The Incident of the “Heavenly Rock Cave.” Empress Jito as the Living Kami | |
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| The Imperial Priestesshood (Saigu, Saiin) | |
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| Introduction of Buddhism | |
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| Prince Shotoku | |
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| The Cult of Prince Shotoku | |
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| Nara Buddhism | |
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| Hinayana, Mahayana, and the Doctrine of the “Bodies” of Buddha | |
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| Todaiji and the Great Buddha Image | |
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| Moving the Capital from Nara to Kyoto | |
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| Saicho (Dengyo-Daishi) and the Tendai Sect | |
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| Kukai (Kobo-Daishi) and the Shingon Sect | |
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| Mountains as the Sacred Religious Training Ground | |
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| Angry Spirits and other Folk Beliefs | |
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| Medieval Period | |
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| Entering the “Period of the end of Buddha's Teaching.” Nenbutsu Practice and the Longing for the Western Paradise of the Amida Buddha | |
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| Transition of Power from the Imperial Court to the Shogunate | |
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| Salvation of Women | |
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| Honen and the Pure Land Sect | |
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| Shinran and the True Pure Land Sect | |
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| Eisai and the Rinzai Zen Sect | |
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| Dogen and the Soto Zen Sect | |
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| Nichiren and the Nichiren (or Lotus) Sect | |
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| Ippen and the Ji Sect | |
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| From the Medieval to the Early Modern Period | |
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| The relationship between Buddhism and Shinto | |
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| The “Essence-Manifestation” Theory | |
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| The Emergence of Self-Asssertion of Shinto | |
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| Patronage of Zen by the Kamakura Shogunate | |
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| Muromachi Shogunate and Conflicts among Buddhist Sects | |
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| Zen and Arts | |
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| Development of Militant Sects | |
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| An Interlude: Amida or the Lotus? Development of Popular Religiosity | |
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| Francis Xavier and the Introduction of Christianity | |
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| Obstacles | |
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| The Unification of Japan and the Fate of Christianity | |
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| Nobunaga and Christianity | |
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| Hideyoshi and Christianity | |
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| The Incident of San Felipe | |
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| Deification of Hideyoshi | |
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| Early Modern—Late 16th through 18th Century | |
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| Ieyasu and the Tokugawa Shogunate | |
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| Expulsion of the Christian Missionaries and the Closure of the Ports | |
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| The Hokoji Temple Bell | |
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| The Incident of the “Purple Priestly Robe.” Deification of Leyasu | |
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| Methodical Persecutions of Christians | |
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| Obaku Zen Sect | |
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| Buddhism Becomes a Funeral Religion | |
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| Attraction of Neo-Confucianism | |
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| Women's Social Status | |
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| Renewed Interest in Shinto | |
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| The Poet Basho | |
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| Formation of Popular Ethics and the Spirit of Rationalism | |
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| Return to Antiquity: The “Native” Learning (Kokugaku), Shinto and “Nationalism | |
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| Hirata Shinto | |
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| Living Buddhism | |
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| Modern Period—The 19th and 20th Century | |
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| Outbursts of Popular Religious Movements in the Late Tokugawa Period | |
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| The Opening of the Ports and the Resurfacing of the “Hidden Christians | |
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| Meiji Restoration | |
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| Separation of Shinto and Buddhism | |
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| Making of the Image of the Emperor as a Kami | |
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| Abolishment of Old Festival Days, Creation of New Ones | |
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| National Mausoleum of the Fallen Soldiers | |
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| Lifting of the Ban against Christianity | |
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| Invention of State Shinto | |
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| Christianity in Meiji Japan | |
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| Spiritual Movements during the Meiji Period | |
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| Fascism and Shinto | |
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| The Storms of Fascism | |
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| Post-WWII “New” Japan | |
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| Japanese Religions in the New Millennium | |
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| Japanese Religions Today | |
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| Looking toward the Future | |