Kiyokazu Okita

(置田清和)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University

Degree: Bachelor of Arts(International Christian University)
Master of Studies in the Study of Religion(University of Oxford)
Doctor of Philosophy in Theology(University of Oxford)

Contact information: k-okitasophia.ac.jp
Researcher number: 70708627
J-GLOBAL ID: 201401093791791193
researchmap Member ID: 7000009395

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Sep, 2020 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Sep, 2017 - Sep, 2020

Assitant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Apr, 2013 - Sep, 2017

Program-specific Assistant Professor, The Hakubi Center, Kyoto University
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2013

Post-doctoral Researcher, Kyoto University, Department of Indological Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Aug, 2010 - Mar, 2011

Lecturer, Department of Religion, University of Florida

Papers

“A Response to (1) ‘Entrapping the Elusive’ by Sajjad Sharif (2) ‘ভাবনা থেকে কবিতায়’by Srijato Bandyopadhyay”

Okita, Kiyokazu

SASC International Conference Series, 1 26-30, Mar, 2023 InvitedLead author
A Genealogy of Divine Paramour: Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Ujjvalanīlamaṇi in the History of Sanskrit Dramaturgy and Literary Criticism

Kiyokazu Okita

Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 30(1) 225-244, Nov, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
The Theology of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya: Six Distinctive Features

Kiyokazu Okita

Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 29(2) 5-24, Apr, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvited
Śleṣa Readings on Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1.1.1: Śrīnātha Cakravartī’s Caitanyamatamañjuṣā Commentary

Kiyokazu Okita

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu), 69(3) 979-985, Mar 25, 2021 Peer-reviewed
"Rejecting Monism: Dvaita Vedānta’s Engagement with the Bhāgavatapurāṇa”

Journal of Indian Philosophy, 48(3) 447-465, Apr 3, 2020 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Book Review: Richard S. Weiss. (2019). The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism. (Oakland: University of California Press).

Kiyokazu Okita

International Journal of Asian Studies, 18(1) 147-149, Jan, 2021 Invited
Book Review: Rembert Lutjeharms. (2018). A Vaiṣṇava Poet in Early Modern Bengal: Kavikarṇapūra’s Splendour of Speech. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Kiyokazu Okita

International Journal of Hindu Studies, 24 423-425, 2020
Book Review: Neelima Shukla-Bhatt. (2015). Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat: A Legacy of Bhakti in Songs and Stories. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Kiyokazu Okita

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 13(2) 245-248, Jul, 2016 Invited

Books and Other Publications

The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town

置田, 清和, Lutjeharms, Rembert (Role: Joint editor)

Brill, 2024 (ISBN: 9789004680470)
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, edited by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro.

Kiyokazu Okita (Role: Contributor, "Bhakti", Vol.1, pp. 219-226)

Wiley Blackwell, 2022
The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal "Divine Transgression: Devotion and Ethics in Bengali Vaiṣṇavism"

OKITA Kiyokazu

Routledge, Dec 2, 2019
Bhakti and Power: Debating India’s Religion of the Heart “Singing in Protest: Early Modern Hindu-Muslim Encounters in Bengali Hagiographies of Chaitanya”

OKITA Kiyokazu (Role: Joint author, p. 159-170)

The University of Washington Press, May 19, 2019 (ISBN: 0295745509)
Indo Bunka Jiten "Vivekananda"

OKITA Kiyokazu

Maruzen, Jan, 2018 (ISBN: 9784621302354)
Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan “Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia”

OKITA Kiyokazu

Brill, Oct 5, 2017 (ISBN: 9004352953)
Adaptive Reuse in South Asian Literatures and Arts "Quotation, Quarrel and Controversy in Early Modern South Asia: Appayya Dīkṣita and Jīva Gosvāmī on Madhva’s Untraceable Citations"

OKITA Kiyokazu (Role: Joint author, p. 259-283)

Harrassowitz Verlag, Jan 19, 2017
『よくわかる宗教学』「ヒンドゥー教（１）：ヒンドゥー教の成り立ち」

OKITA Kiyokazu (Role: Joint author, p. 78-79)

ミネルヴァ書房, Mar 10, 2015
Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia: The Rise of Devotionalism and the Politics of Genealogy

OKITA Kiyokazu

Oxford University Press, Jul 31, 2014 (ISBN: 9780198709268)

Presentations

Toward a Social History of Greater Vaiṣṇava Vedānta: Difference and Non-Difference in the Gauḍīya School

Okita, Kiyokazu

Workshop: An Intellectual History of Late Vedānta, Jun 25, 2024 Invited
A Tapestry of Devotion: The Bhāgavata Traditions Before Caitanya

Okita, Kiyokazu

Oxford Center for Hindu Studies Seminar, Jun 6, 2024
Devotion in the Vernacular Millennium: The Teleology of Mādhurya-nization in Mālādhar Vasu’s Śrīkṛṣṇavijaya

Okita, Kiyokazu

The 40th Annual Sanskrit Traditions Symposium, May 31, 2024
When Cowherd Women Speak in Bengali: Transmission and Transformation in Guṇarāj Khān’s Śrīkṛṣṇavijaya

Okita, Kiyokazu

International Workshop “Translation and Textual Transmission across Languages and Cultures in Early Modern South Asia” Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Mar 28, 2024 Invited
The Aesthetic Theories of Devotion in Sanskrit Literature: The Emergence of Bhakti-rasa in Late Medieval India

Okita, Kiyokazu

The Department of Sanskrit, University of Calcutta, Dec 27, 2023 Invited

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

The Aesthetic Theories of Devotion in Late Medieval South Asia

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2027

Okita, Kiyokazu
Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2024
Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Oct, 2018 - Mar, 2022
Religion and Ethics in Early Modern and Modern South Asia: From the Perspective of Gaudiya Vaisnavism

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Okita Kiyokazu
Faith and Ethics in Late Medieval to Early Modern South Asia: The Case of Gaudiya Vaisnavism

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Aug, 2013 - Mar, 2015

OKITA Kiyokazu

Social Activities

Cambodia Service Learning Program

Others

Aug 19, 2018 - Aug 29, 2018

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