The Bloomsbury Shinto Series, created and edited by Fabio Rambelli, a UC Santa Barbara professor of religious studies and of East Asian languages and cultural studies, is the first book series on Shinto published outside of Japan. It has published its first book in the series, “Mountain Mandalas” (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016), by Allan G. Grapard, emeritus professor of Japanese religions at UCSB. The Shinto tradition has often been an elusive subject of study, and research works have been limited.