Asian Religions

A research guide on different aspects of Shinto, listing the most important works on a topic.

By B. Bocking.
Curzon Press, 1996.
An academic dictionary that provides over a thousand entries on concepts, festivals, artifacts, deities, shrines, and facets of popular Shinto. Though there is no bibliography, the author refers to a number of useful works in the introduction and the thematic indexes make it easy to find cross-references.

By S.D.B. Picken.
Greenwood Press, 1994.
A good guide to resources on Shinto religion, philosophy, and shrines. It lists primary sources on the institutional and intellectual history of Shinto sects, including splinter sects.