A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditions Scholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious

A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditions Scholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christ

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