JAMES C. DOBBINS is associate professor of religion and East Asian
studies at Oberlin College. He received the Ph.D. from Yale Uni-
versity in 1984. He is the author of Jōdo shinshū: Shin Buddhism in
Medieval Japan ( Indiana University Press, 1989); and of "The Leg-
acy of Kuroda Toshio," in the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23,
3-4 ( Fall 1996).

JAMES H. FOARD ( Ph.D., Stanford University, 1977) is a professor
in the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University,
specializing in Japanese religious history. He is the author of many
articles on popular Buddhism in medieval and early modern Japan
and on the rituals relating to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Together with Richard Payne and Michael Solomon, he co-edited
The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development ( Berkeley Buddhist
Studies Series, 1996).

ALLAN G. GRAPARD teaches in the East Asian Languages and Cul-
tural Studies Program and the Religious Studies Department, and
is an affiliate in the History Department at the University of Cali-
fornia, Santa Barbara, where he holds the International Shinto
Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies. He is author of La vérité finale
des Trois Enseignements ( Paris: Poesis, 1982), The Protocol of the Gods
( University of California Press, 1992), some fifty articles on various
aspects of Japanese religious history, and The Religion of Space and
the Limits of Religion (forthcoming).

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