The volume content is interdisciplinary by nature and a product of exceptional contributions from a wide variety of scholars, ranging from anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, historians to economic historians. From the Contents: Agriculture in the Religious Cult Omoto (Yoshihisa Godo); Changes in Religiosity in the World's and Japanese Modernizing Societies: Convergence and Divergence of Religiosity in (Un)consciousness (Koki Shimizu).