John Breen (scholar)

John Lawrence Breen (born 3 March 1956)[1] is a British academic and Japanologist.

Breen was awarded his BA at St John's College, Cambridge in 1979.

[3] Breen's critical examination of religious practices in Japan has been informed by his historical research.

While Kuroda denied Shinto was more than a japanized version of Buddhism, Breen and Teeuwen argue there was a pre-modern, indigenous tradition of worship, mythology and shrines, even if indeed Shinto as an organized religion was yet to be born.

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Breen, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 30 publications in 1 language and 1,000+ library holding.