Curriculum Vitaes
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
- Degree
- M.A.(University of Pennsylvania)Ph.D(University of Pennsylvania)
- Researcher number
- 10749914
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 201501016491908602
- researchmap Member ID
- 7000013447
My research explores the role of the body in religion and the role of religious ideology and practice in producing knowledge about the body. My recent publications have examined the ways in which religious ideas and practices helped shape perceptions of old age in early and medieval Japan. I have also published on the intersections of religious and medical knowledge in premodern Japan. I teach courses on the history of Buddhism, Japanese religions, and religion and the body.
Research Interests
1Research Areas
1Research History
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Aug, 2018 - Mar, 2020
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Aug, 2009 - Aug, 2014
Awards
12Major Papers
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Buddhism and the Body, 20-45, Aug 21, 2023 Peer-reviewedInvited
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Journal of Aging Studies, 47 10-23, Dec, 2018 Peer-reviewed
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Buddhism and Medicine, 61-83, Dec 31, 2017 Peer-reviewedInvited
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Manase Dōsan to Kinsei nihon iryō shakai (Manase Dōsan and Early Modern Japanese Medical Society), 2015 Peer-reviewedInvited
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Journal of Religion in Japan, 4(1) 1-31, 2015 Peer-reviewed
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 42(2) 275-317, 2015 Peer-reviewed
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 37(2) 247-273, 2010 Peer-reviewed
Misc.
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The Journal of Religion, 99(4) 580-582, 2019 InvitedLead author
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Journal of Religion in Japan, 2(1) 85-88, 2013 InvitedLead author
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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 72(2) 402-407, Dec, 2012 InvitedLead author
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Journal of Asian Studies, 69(4) 1251-1253, Nov, 2010 InvitedLead author
Major Books and Other Publications
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Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 (ISBN: 9781350254992)
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University of Hawai`i Press, 2016 (ISBN: 9780824866860)
Presentations
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East West Philosopher’s Conference, Honolulu, May 29, 2024
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Académie du Midi, Alet-les-Bains (France)
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"Bodies of Buddhism: Somaesthetic Explorations," Boca Raton Campus of Florida Atlantic University, the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, Feb 28, 2020 Invited
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Imagining and Developing Images of the Body in Medicine, Art, and Folk Religion, Feb 1, 2019, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
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International Workshop: The Burden of Superfluous Matters: Towards a Transcultural History of Bodily Wastes, Dec 1, 2018, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies Invited
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Eighth Annual Conference on Aging & Society, Sep 18, 2018
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Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Nov 18, 2017
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Symposium: A Fascination with Otherness (not only first) Impressions of the Cultures of Japan and the Western World, Apr 28, 2017, Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
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Institute for Comparative Culture Lecture Series, Oct 17, 2016, Institute for Comparative Culture Invited
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Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Apr 3, 2016
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19th Annual Asian Studies Conference in Japan (ASCJ), Jun 21, 2015
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Department of Religious Studies Colloquium, Mar 7, 2014
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名古屋大学 大学院 文学研究科, Dec 11, 2012
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Healing Texts, Healing Practices, Healing Bodies: a Workshop on Medicine and Buddhism in East Asia, Apr 7, 2012 Invited
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Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nov 21, 2011
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Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nov 1, 2010
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Eighteenth Symposium of the Académie du Midi, May 27, 2010
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Annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Mar 27, 2009
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Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nov 3, 2008
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The Physician Manase Dōsan: An International Workshop on Medical Texts, Portraiture, and Kanbun Writings in Early Modern Japan, Aug 25, 2008
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Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 30, 2007, American Anthropological Association
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Japan Forum Lecture, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Feb 9, 2007, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University Invited
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Workshop: Time, Memory and Body in Japan, Feb 3, 2007 Invited
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International Association for the History of Religions, Mar 28, 2005
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Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic Region, Mar 17, 2001
Professional Memberships
4Research Projects
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JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan, Jul, 2023 - Jul, 2023
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Fordham Research Abroad Program (FRAP), Nov, 2021 - May, 2023
Major Academic Activities
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Planning, Management, etc., Supervision (editorial), Review, evaluationApr 1, 2024 - Present
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Planning, Management, etc., Supervision (editorial), Review, evaluationApr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
Social Activities
4Media Coverage
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ubasute/, Aug, 2020 Newspaper, magazine
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, https://www.nzz.ch/international/asien-und-pazifik/bei-geburt-shintoistisch-beim-tod-buddhistisch-1.18680026?reduced=true, Jan, 2016 Newspaper, magazine