Shinto

Breen, John, and Mark Teeuwen, eds., Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. Provides a general overview covering various topics.

Grapard, Allan G. "The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo." Monumenta Nipponica 47, no. 1 (spring 1992).

Hardacre, Helen. Shinto and the State, 1868–1988. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. A classic work explicating the construction and consequences of State Shinto in the modern era.

Kuroda, Toshio. "Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion." Journal of Japanese Studies 7, no. 1 (winter 1981): 1–21. An important critique of the normal historical genealogy presented for the ancient existence of Shinto.

Littleton, C. Scott. Shinto: Origins, Ritual, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places Oxford, U.K., and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Picken, Stuart D. B. Essentials of Shinto: An Analytical Guide to Principal Teachings. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

——. Historical Dictionary of Shinto. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

——. Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Roots. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1980. An accessible and beautiful visual introduction to various aspects of Shinto as practiced in Japan.

Schnell, Scott. The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in Japanese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1999.

Smyers, Karen A. The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

Teeuwen, Mark. "Attaining Union with the Gods." Monumenta Nipponica 48, no. 2 (summer 1993).

Teeuwen, Mark, and Fabio Rambelli, eds. Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honj Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm. New York: Routledge, 2003.