About the Author

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.

Reviews

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.