Koike Yasushi is an Associate Professor in the College of Sociology at Rikkyo University, Tokyo. His specializes in spirituality and therapeutic culture. He is the author of Serapi bunka no shakaigaku セラピー文化の社会学 [A Sociology of Therapeutic Culture] (Keiso Shobo, 2007) and “Supirichuaritei no rinri to gurobaru shihonshugi no seisin?” スピリチュアリティの倫理とグローバル資本主義の精神 [Spirituality Ethics and the Spirit of Global Capitalism?], in Journal of Religious Studies 88(2), 291?314, 2014.