@article{ref1,
title="Japanese Religious Affiliations: Motives and Obligations",
journal="Sociology of religion",
year="1983",
author="Davis, Winston",
volume="44",
number="2",
pages="131-146",
abstract="The Japanese are often regarded as an &quot;inscrutable&quot; people completely dominated by a unique group-orientation. This paper is an attempt to demystify this Group Model of Japanese society. An alternative model is constructed which combines a phenomenological analysis of motives and obligations with an elementary theory of social and economic exchange. Popular religious affiliations in Japan are analyzed in terms of their characteristic &quot;hegemonal motives.&quot; This approach is also put forward as a way of bridging the gap between the sociology of Far Eastern religions and the standard typology of religious groups in the West.<p />",
language="",
issn="1069-4404",
doi="10.2307/3711398",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3711398"
}