Ioannis Gaitanidis is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University (Japan). His research focusses on alternative therapies and contemporary religion in Japan. He has recently authored Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (2022, Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies). Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (PhD, University College London) is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He is a global historian working on the intersection of science, medicine and religion in 19th- and 20th-century China, with extended interests in studies of esotericism, psychology and mental health in modern East Asia and South America. He has published extensively in Chinese, Portuguese and English (https://luisfbj.com/). Avery Morrow is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Brown University. His research broadly covers new religious movements and occultism in Japan from 1868 through the present day. He is currently preparing a book chapter on Shinto and hypnotism in the Meiji period. Sangyun Han is a PhD student at the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University and a visiting research student at the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the history of modern Japanese religion, especially the relationship between the “Occult Boom” of the 1970s and Japanese esoteric Buddhism.