Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies
Job title
Associate Professor
Degree
PhD(University of Leeds (UK))
J-Global ID
201901000946994532
Research Interests
Anthropology of Religion
,Medical Anthropology
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore /
Humanities & social sciences / Local studies / Japanese Studies
Humanities & social sciences / Religious studies /
Research History
Apr 2022
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Chiba University Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies Associate Professor
Apr 2020
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Mar 2022
Chiba University Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies Assistant Professor
Committee Memberships
Aug 2023
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Aries (Brill) Editorial Board Member
Jul 2021
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Journal of Religion in Japan (Brill) Editorial Board Member
Awards
Nov 2019
Toshiba International Foundation, European Association for Japanese Studies, Essay Competition Grand Prize,The Future of Japanese Studies: Researching and Teaching Transnational Contingencies
Journal of Religion in Japan 10(2-3) 271-298 Jul 2021 [Refereed][Invited]
Contrary to other European countries, where Buddhism has been studied since at least the 19th century, this paper shows that there are no known direct channels of transmission of Japanese Buddhism between Japan and Greece. Connections have, howeve...
As with the relationships between shūkyō and “religion” and supirichuariti and “spirituality,” the Japanese term okaruto is embedded in a global network of practice and discourse around “occultism,” but is also informed by the politics of local pr...
Responding to our interview with Mitsutoshi Horii, Ioannis Gaitanidis highlights Horii's analysis of the public benefit-aspect of religion in Japan and expands the conversation by asking how scholars can build on and push further our deconstructiv...
This paper is a translation of Okumura Daisuke 奥村大介. 2019. Matsumoto Chiwakino jintai hōshanō-ron: Nihon ni okeru seiō kindai kagaku jyuyō no ichidanmen 松本道別の人体放射能論—日本における西欧近代科学受容の一断面. In: Kurita Hidehiko 栗田英彦, Tsukada Hotaka 塚田穂高, Yoshinaga Shin’...
Despite the recent substantial increase of the number of universities offering liberal arts degrees in Asia, there exists a serious lack of research on the kind of guidance that students attending such programs require when writing their final dis...
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