"The American Religions Collection, one of the largest collections of materials on alternative religious movements and practices in the world, offers thousands of hard-to-find serials relating to twentieth-century nontraditional religions and splinter groups of larger religious bodies in North America. The collection was built by J. Gordon Melton, the foremost scholar of nontraditional American religions in America ... Eastern religions : Buddhism, Shintoism, and Japanese new religions is drawn from the American Religions Collection. [It] features 134 rare serials on Buddhism (Mahayana, Theravada, Tibetan, and Zen) Shintoism, and Japanese new religions in the United States and from those countries that have influenced the American Buddhism movement ... Publication dates range from the 1930s through 2006, with the bulk of the titles published in the last forty years. It is important to note that the Buddhist materials in this product have been significantly supplemented by the Anthony Leitner Memorial Collection, a specific collection within the American Religions Collection."--P. v.