Since the 1960s the world has seen the arrival and establishment of new Japanese religious movements, this text examines the nature and extent this religious expansion outside Japan.

Japanese New Religions Abroad, Peter B. Clarke; Chapter 1 New Japanese Religions in the West, Catherine Cornille; Chapter 2 Spiritual Companies, Corporate Religions, Louella Matsunaga; Chapter 3 Japanese Religion in Australia, Gary D. Bouma, Wendy Smith, Shiva Vasi; Chapter 4 The New Japanese Religions in Brazil, Ari Pedro Oro; Chapter 5 Modern Japanese Millenarian Movements, Peter B. Clarke; Chapter 6 Adapt or Perish, Sanda Ionescu; Chapter 7 Spirit First, Mind Follows, Body Belongs, Louella Matsunaga; Chapter 8 Illness and Salvation in Tensho-Kotai-Jingu-Kyo - The Dancing Religion of Hawaii, Tina Hamrin; Chapter 9 Shin Buddhism in the West, Alfred Bloom; Chapter 10 'Success' and 'Failure', Peter B. Clarke;