Gwendolyn Gillson researches at the intersection of anthropology of religion, East Asian studies and gender studies. Her work at Illinois College broadly examines how women craft their experiences of Buddhism to deal with the loneliness endemic to the dissolution of traditional Japanese social structures brought about by urbanization and globalization.

Kaitlyn Ugoretz is an anthropologist of religion and the associate editor of publications at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, including the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Ugoretz specializes in contemporary Japanese religion, globalization, technology and media. Her digital ethnographic research focuses on the globalization of Shinto and the development of transnational online Shinto communities.

Matthew Hayes is the librarian for Japanese studies and Asian American studies at Duke University. He is co-creator of the website “Collecting Religion.”

Ian Reader is professor emeritus at the University of Manchester. His prime areas of research are on religious dynamics in the contemporary world, with a special focus on Japan, on pilgrimage and on the links between religion and violence.

Yoshihide Sakurai is a professor of human sciences and sociology at Hokkaido University in Japan, where he studies how Asian religions are evolving in a global age.

The National Federation of Asian American United Methodists (NFAAUM) is an ethnic caucus within the United Methodist Church. It is composed of twelve sub-caucuses: Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Formosan, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, South Asian, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, and Pakistani. NFAAUM is headquartered in Oakland, Calif. The Rev. Jacob S. Dharmaraj is president. Aquilino Pong Javier […]

Japan Theravada Buddhist Association is an organization in Tokyo that provides resources on Theravada Buddhism such as meditation, prayer, history and traditions.

The Catholic Tokyo International Center supports Japan’s international Catholic community.