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pp. ¥2,500. The book under review is a collection of essays resulting from study meetings held at the National Museum for Ethnology in Osaka from April 1978 till March 1980 on the general theme “Comparative study of nativistic religious movements. ” Nine of the participants 一 members of the National Museum as well as non-members—con tributed a paper to this volume. Let us first have a look at the contents. The book starts with an introductory essay by its editor Nakamaki Hirochika on “Unknown gods, universal gods，and gods of affinity, ” followed by Part One that deals with Japan and consists of two essays. The first one by Inoue Nobutaka deals with “Coping with foreign ideas in the formation process of Revival Shinto: Christianity in the thought of [Hirata] Atsutane and [Okuni] Takamasa. ” The second one by Shimazono Susumu on “The transforma tion of charisma and myths on the nigh god as seen in the formative period of early new religions ” compares the founders of Konkokyo and Tenrikyo with leaders of nativist. ligions in the Third World