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The featured study challenges the common portrayal of Oda Nobunaga as broadly anti-Buddhist by analyzing documents issued by Nobunaga and his regime, arguing for largely cordial and conservative relations with religious institutions. 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Montrose  \n105 Inari Origin Stories  \nCrafting Narrative in Medieval Japan  \nMatthew Keller  \nreviews  \n127 Reflections on Esoteric Hegemony in Medieval Japan and the Modern Academy  \nBryan D. Lowe  \n145 Stephen G. Covell, The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan  \nJessica Starling  \n149 Rin Ushiyama, Aum Shinrikyō and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory  \nMasato Kato  \nJapanese Journal of Religious Studies 52: 1–32 © 2025 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture [dx.doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.52.2025.1-32](dx.doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.52.2025.1-32)  \nDan Sherer  \nPrayer for the Devil  \nReligion and the Regime of Oda Nobunaga  \nA common theme in the historiography related to Oda Nobunaga is his strong opposition to religious institutions. While Nobunaga’s conflicts with several temples were brutal, this article argues that the image of Nobunaga as broadly anti-Buddhist is a result of an overreliance on the writings of the Jesuit Luís Fróis. Indeed, an analysis centered on documents issued by Nobunaga and his regime reveal that religious institutions served important roles in Nobunaga’s regime, and that Nobunaga tended toward maintaining precedent in his relationship with religious institutions. This article provides a framework of the Oda regime’s religious policies and the main aspects of it.  \nkeywords: Oda Nobunaga—anti-Buddhism—Luís Fróis—Azuchi period—religious life  \nDan Sherer is Lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  \nO  \nda Nobunaga織田信長(1534–1582) lives large in the historical imagination. Remembered as the first of the three unifiers, he is by varying accounts remembered as a brute, a revolutionary, and a genius. Fre-  \nquently the subject of academic and popular consideration, Nobunaga continueseven now to be one of the best-known and most discussed figures in Japanese history. One particularly popular topic is that of Nobunaga’s relationship with religion, with his violent destruction of Mt. Hiei and his brutal clashes with the Ikkō Ikki taking central stage. It would seem that Nobunaga, whether because of a general hostility toward religion or an opposition to any power center he did not control, was inclined to suppress or destroy religious institutions.  \nIn this article, I provide a different view. I assert that the relationship that Oda Nobunaga and his regime had with religious institutions, while certainly varied, was largely cordial and conservative. For the most part, Nobunaga desired to maintain or increase the prestige of his own regime and its allies and to follow precedent. While political and especially military considerations could trump these concerns, it is clear from an examination of the documents issued by Nobunaga and his regime that religious institutions were a vital part of the social, political, and religious order that Nobunaga desired, and that this order was largely a continuation of what had come before. Thus, religious institutions cannot be seen merely as another outside political entity that Nobunaga needed to either destroy or dominate, but as a necessary part of his regime. Some of these institutions were integral to the Oda vassals before he took over, while others were brought in as Nobunaga became involved in and then master of Kyoto politics.  \nWhile no single factor overrode all others, I emphasize precedent as an important guiding principles of Nobunaga’s relationship with religious institutions. Generally, Nobunaga did not make changes to practices on the ground. This is borne out in documents from Nobunaga and his regime, of which a large portion are confirmations of extant land holdings ","cbCaioWPWhzU4dhK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioWPWhzU4dhK","pdf",1787426,158,"English","# Articles\n## Prayer for the Devil - Religion and the Regime of Oda Nobunaga\n## Saimon Recitations - Two Examples from Oku Mikawa\n## From Disciples to Dissidents - Student Protests and Reform Movements in Meiji-Era Buddhist Universities\n## Inari Origin Stories - Crafting Narrative in Medieval Japan\n# Reviews\n## Reflections on Esoteric Hegemony in Medieval Japan and the Modern Academy\n## Stephen G. Covell - The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan\n## Rin Ushiyama - Aum Shinrikyō and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory","[{\"question\":\"What argument does the article “Prayer for the Devil” make about Oda Nobunaga’s relationship with religion?\",\"answer\":\"It disputes the idea that Nobunaga was broadly anti-Buddhist. By analyzing documents from Nobunaga’s regime, it shows religious institutions played important roles and that Nobunaga often maintained precedent in his dealings with them.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article challenge previous scholarship that emphasizes Jesuit Luís Fróis?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that earlier portrayals rely too heavily on Fróis’s claims. The article contends that other sources, especially official documents from the Oda regime, should carry more weight.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the reviews in this volume broaden the journal’s themes?\",\"answer\":\"They connect medieval religious authority with modern academic frameworks and assess contemporary studies on temple Buddhism and on how religious terrorism is remembered in Japanese collective memory.\"}]","Japanese Journal of Religious Studies - Volume 52 | PDF",398]