The author addresses recent changes in religion in Japan, and in particular the likely emergence of new spaces for the location of the sacred and changes in the nature of religious journeys. It is argued that these new dimensions of religious perception can be understood as responses to globalization and new forms of communication. The new elements of sacred place, to or from which journeys take place, are (i) the expanding popularity of inner space as sacred space; and the new developments of (ii) outer sacred space and (iii) virtual sacred space.
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