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| List of Tables | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Studies of State Shinto | |
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| Issues, Themes, and Goals | |
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| Shinto in the Tokugawa Era (1600-1868) | |
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| The Relation between Buddhism and Shinto | |
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| Ise Pilgrimage | |
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| The Influence of National Learning | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Modern History of Relations Between Shinto and the State | |
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| Chronological Overview | |
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| The Meiji Restoration and the Beginning of State Shinto | |
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| The Separation of Buddhism from Shinto | |
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| Building Institutions | |
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| Disunity in the Department of Divinity | |
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| Reform of Imperial Ritual | |
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| The Creation of National Rites and Ceremonies | |
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| The Slump of Middle Meiji (1880-1905) | |
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| Is Shinto a Religion? | |
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| The Movement to Reestablish the Department of Divinity | |
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| Shrine Building after the Russo-Japanese War | |
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| Freedom of Religion | |
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| Postwar Shinto | |
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| The Great Promulgation Campaign | |
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| The Campaign | |
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| The Pantheon Dispute | |
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| The New Religions in the Great Promulgation Campaign | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Shinto Priesthood | |
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| The Internal Diversity of the Shinto Priesthood | |
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| The Evolution of a Concept of Religion | |
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| Shrine Administrators | |
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| The Idea of a National Teaching | |
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| Shrine Administrators' Diversity and Influence | |
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| National Teaching in Practice | |
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| Questions of Doctrine and Rites | |
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| The Provincial Priesthood | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Shrines and the Rites of Empire Part I: Shinto Shrines | |
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| The Separation of Buddhism from Shinto | |
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| Shrine Registration | |
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| Shrine Rankings | |
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| Distribution of Ise Talismans and Almanacs | |
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| The Ise Shrines and Their Outposts | |
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| The State-Sponsored Cult of the War Dead and Loyalists | |
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| Provincial Centers of the Cult of the War Dead | |
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| The Meiji Shrine | |
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| Shrines in the Colonies | |
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| State Shrine Support | |
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| Shrine Mergers | |
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| Shrines and the Rites of Empire Part II: Shrine Rites | |
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| Shrine Rites: Types and Standardization | |
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| The Liturgical Structure of Shrine Rites | |
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| Large-Scale State Rites | |
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| Civic Rites in Provincial Society | |
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| Shrine Observances Involving Schoolchildren | |
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| Customary Observances and Shinto | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Religious Freedom Under State Shinto | |
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| The Meiji Constitution | |
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| The Imperial Rescript on Education | |
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| The Religious Organizations Law | |
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| The Suppression of New Religious Movements | |
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| Shinto's Role in Restricting Religious Freedom | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Shinto and the State Since 1945 | |
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| Shinto and the Occupation | |
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| The Shinto Directive | |
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| Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State | |
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| The Religious Juridical Persons Law | |
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| The Implementation of the Occupation's Policy on Religion | |
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| Shinto since World War II | |
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| Postwar Challenges to Religious Freedom and to Separation of State and Religion | |
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| The Attempt to Reestablish State Support for the Yasukuni Shrine | |
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| The Tsu Grounds Purification Case | |
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| Cabinet Tribute at the Yasukuni Shrine | |
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| The Self-Defense Force Apotheosis Case | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Government Expenditures for Shrines in Comparative Perspective | |
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| The Shinto Directive | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Sources | |
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| Index | |