It explores questions of institutional and popular power in religion, demonstrates the ways people make religious figures personally meaningful, and documents the kinds of communicative styles that preserve the appearance of homogeneity in the face of astonishing factionalism.
^Karen A. SmyersThe Fox and the Jewel : Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship by Karen A. Smyers (1998, Paperback)ISBN 9780824821029 (revised Mar 2015)
^The Fox And The Jewel: Shared And Private Meanings In Contemporary Japanese Inari WorkshipIndigo. ISBN 9780824821029 (revised Jan 2023)