 Since the 1970s the name “Kyoto School” has gradually recovered its underlying philosophical ring, which for several decades in Japan (especially outside of Kyoto) had been drowned out by its political overtones. This recovery happened first of all in the West, where scholars neglected the political controversies in their enthusiastic reception of the School’s philosophies of religion. While the political controversies returned with a vengeance to Western academia a couple of decades later, in a kind of pendulum swing to the hypercritical, the initial positive attention from the West had by then helped to rehabilitate the image of the Kyoto School back home in Japan.