Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa -- Introduction -- Religion and the Transformation of National Traditions -- “Remember not the Former Things” / Theodore M. Ludwig -- Sangha, Society and the Struggle for National Integration / Frank E. Reynolds and Regina T. Clifford -- Transitions and Transformations in Islam -- Exegesis and Recitation / Frederick M. Denny -- The Imam in the New World / Earle H. Waugh -- Transitions and Transformations in Chinese Religion -- Dualism and Conflict in Chinese Popular Religion / Overmyer Daniel L. -- From Reciprocity to Contradiction / Paul V. Martinson -- Transitions and Transformations in Japanese Religion -- Buddhism and the National Communiti in Early Japan / Manabu Waida -- The Poet as Seer: Bashō Looks Back / William R. LaFleur -- The Secularization of Japanese Religion / Winston Davis.