Editing Japan (section)

== Selected Literature in English ==

* Brons, Lajos (2022). ''A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism''. punctum books. {{annotation|A wide-ranging philosophical history of Buddhist utopianism, with substantial treatment of Meiji and Taishō Buddhist reform and radicalism, including several figures and currents less prominent in the existing English-language literature.}}

* Ives, Christopher (2009). ''Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics''. University of Hawai'i Press. {{annotation|The principal English-language study of Ichikawa Hakugen and his critique of Zen's accommodation to Japanese nationalism and militarism.}}

* Ketelaar, James Edward (1990). ''Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution''. Princeton University Press. {{annotation|A major study of the early Meiji persecution of Buddhism and the subsequent reconstruction of Buddhist identity and institutions, providing essential background for the emergence of Buddhist modernism and reform.}}

* Large, Stephen S. (1987). “Buddhism, Socialism, and Protest in Prewar Japan: The Career of Seno'o Girō”. ''Modern Asian Studies'' 21.1: 153–171. {{annotation|An influential early English-language study of Seno'o Girō and his political development, based substantially on his published diary.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2011). ''Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought''. Ashgate. {{annotation|A book-length study of Critical Buddhism, particularly the thought of Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shirō and its relationship to modern Japanese Buddhist philosophy.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2014). “From Topos to Utopia: Critical Buddhism, Globalization, and Ideology Criticism”. In: Kalmanson, Leah, & Shields, James Mark (Eds.), ''Buddhist Responses to Globalization'': 51–77. Lexington Books. {{annotation|Examines Critical Buddhism through ideology criticism and explores its relationship to materialist and utopian forms of Buddhist praxis.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2014). “Zen and the Art of Treason: Radical Buddhism in Meiji Era (1868–1912) Japan”. ''Politics, Religion & Ideology'' 15.2: 205–223. {{annotation|Examines Tarui Tōkichi, Takagi Kenmyō, and Uchiyama Gudō as distinct experiments in Meiji radical Buddhism.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2016). “Opium Eaters: Buddhism as Revolutionary Politics”. In: Kawanami, Hiroko (Ed.), ''Buddhism and the Political Process'': 213–232. Palgrave Macmillan. {{annotation|Places modern Japanese radical Buddhism in a broader history of Buddhist relations with political authority and compares Seno'o Girō with B. R. Ambedkar.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2016). “Peasant Revolts as Anti-Authoritarian Archetypes for Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan”. ''Journal of Religion in Japan'' 5: 3–21. {{annotation|Examines the later appropriation of peasant revolts and ''gimin'' narratives as historical models of Buddhist and religiously inflected resistance.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2017). ''Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan''. Oxford University Press. {{annotation|A synthetic history of progressive and radical Buddhism in modern Japan, with extensive treatment of Meiji Buddhist reform, Tarui Tōkichi, Takagi Kenmyō, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno'o Girō, and Ichikawa Hakugen.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2017). “Immanent Frames: Meiji New Buddhism, Pantheism, and the ‘Religious Secular’”. ''Japan Review'' 30: 79–96. {{annotation|Examines the New Buddhist Fellowship's ''genseshugi'' (this-worldliness) and the philosophical and religious background to later progressive and radical Buddhism.}}

* Shields, James Mark (2023). “A Century of Critical Buddhism in Japan”. In: Scott, Robert H., & McRae, James (Eds.), ''Introduction to Buddhist East Asia'': 281–304. State University of New York Press. {{annotation|Places contemporary Critical Buddhism within a longer genealogy of twentieth-century Japanese Buddhist criticism.}}

* Totten, George O. (1960). “Buddhism and Socialism in Japan and Burma”. ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' 2.3: 293–304. {{annotation|An early comparative analysis of the differing relationships among Buddhism, socialism, and nationalism in Japan and Burma.}}

* Victoria, Brian (1997). ''Zen at War''. Weatherhill. {{annotation|An influential and controversial study of Japanese Zen and militarism that also helped draw English-language attention to Uchiyama Gudō.}}