Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya is an associate professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, India. She specializes in the sociology of religion and Japanese religions, focusing on Engaged Buddhist movements and Buddhism in modern Japan. Her publications include Nihon no shakai sanka Bukkyo: Hōonji to Risshō Kōseikai no shakai katsudō to shakai ronri 日本の社会参加仏教―法音寺と立正佼成会の社会活動と社会倫理 (Engaged Buddhism in Japan, Toshindo, 2005), the recipient of two academic awards in Japan.