ABSTRACT
This Conclusion sets out to tie together and develop major themes explored across our individual contributions. In doing so, it focuses upon the potential for 'care' to be a means by which Japanese religions re-enter and secure for themselves a place in postwar and contemporary civil society and culture. With the wider utility of this volume in mind, where questions about Japan's modernity are concerned, the conclusion homes in on three particular tensions that seem to be at the heart of the religion, psychotherapy encounter in Japan and to extend beyond that into Japan's experience of modernization more generally: the personal versus the (con) textual, creation versus discovery, and instrumentalism versus engrossment. The uncertain nature of present-day revival, made vivid in the delicacy of the disaster chaplaincy work Taniyama describes, tells us a great deal about what has happened in the intervening century.
