On February 21, 2017, H-Net Council voted to de-commission H-Shukyo. The network has been largely unused and ran without editors for an extended period of time. Attempts to find new ones did not work out. Rather than continuing attempts to revive an unused network, we suggest H-Shukyo’s 311 subscribers join our much larger and active networks in related fields. These might include H-Japan, H-NE-Asia, H-Buddhism, H-Asia and many more of our 180+ networks. H-Shukyo's Advisory Board member, Jason Josephson, and Review Editors Jessie Starline and Orion Klautau will all be taking on the same roles
On February 21, 2017, H-Net Council voted to de-commission H-Shukyo. The network has been largely unused and ran without editors for an extended period of time. Attempts to find new ones did not work out. Rather than continuing attempts to revive an unused network, we suggest prospective subscribers join our much larger and active networks in related fields. These might include H-Japan, H-NE-Asia, H-Buddhism, H-Asia and many more of our 180+ networks.
Feel free to contact me with any questions about this decommissioning.
All the best,
Patrick Cox
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*The deadline to apply to this workshop has been extended to February 10, 2017*
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop underthe supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. Beginning in 2017, the workshop will continue for five years, meeting twice a year for 3 to 4 days each time
Call for Papers: "Structure and Subordination: Law, Science, and Religion in East Asia"
April 22nd, 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania
The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania
presents its first annual graduate student conference: Structure and Subordination: Law, Science, and
Religion in East Asia. This one-day conference provides a forum for graduate students from
regional institutions to examine how the legal, scientific, religious, and sociopolitical boundaries
of East Asia (China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia) have been interrogated in the
CALL FOR PAPERS
On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan
University of California, Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies
Conference Dates: April 7 – 8, 2017
Submissions Due: January 15, 2017
Email To: cjsgradconference@berkeley.edu
Website: http://cjsgradconference2017.weebly.com/
The UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies presents its fourth annual graduate student conference: On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan. We invite proposals for papers that focus on past and present inquiries into and expressions of identity and community formation vis-à-vis gender and
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. Beginning in 2017, the workshop will continue for five years, meeting twice a year for 3 to 4 days each time, in late March in Berkeley and early August in Kyoto, where it will be hosted
International Max Planck Workshop
"Sangha Economies: Temple Organisation and Exchanges in Contemporary Buddhism"
21 – 22 September 2017
Organisers: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Christoph Brumann, Beata Świtek (Research Group “Buddhist Temple Economies in Urban Asia”, http://www.eth.mpg.de/3534110/buddhist_temple_economies)
Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
No other “world religion” has given monasticism such a central role as Buddhism in which the sangha – the community of monks and, where recognised, nuns – is one of the "three jewels" (together with the
Center for Information on Religion (hereafter CIR) host a seminar for the Study of Japanese Culture and Religion in Japanese for non-Japanese-native graduate students coming June in Tokyo. The seminar calls for the papers of the well-motivated students who hope to have presentation and discussion with other participants in Japanese.
We CIR will invite 6 students in maximum among all the non-Japanese-native graduate student applicants who belong to the university or institution outside Japan for the Studies of Japanese Culture and Religion. For the presenter we will serve air ticket and
Please join us at Duke University on Thursday, November 3 for this day-long symposium:
https://igs.duke.edu/units-global-asia-initiative-events-conferences/religion-and-nationalism-symposium
Religion and Nationalism in Asia: Perspectives on Japan and the Muslim World
NOVEMBER 3, 2016 10:30AM - 3:30PM
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER, ROOM 240, THE AHMADIEH FAMILY CONFERENCE HALL
Today, appeals to nativism and political mobilization rooted in religious ideals are motivating systemic change and fomenting social upheaval across the world. Scholars have taken heed of these patterns and have shed light on how
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Religion in Japan (JRJ) 5.2&3 is now available.
Table of Contents
Special Issue: Secularity and Post-Secularity in Japan: Japanese Scholars’ Responses
Guest Editor: Fujiwara Satoko
INTRODUCTION
FUJIWARA SATOKO
Secularity and Post-Secularity in Japan: Japanese Scholars’ Responses
ARTICLES
DATE KIYONOBU
“Religious Revival” in the Political World in Contemporary Japan with Special Reference to Religious Groups and Political Parties
NISHIMURA AKIRA
Are Public Commemorations in Contemporary Japan Post-secular?
SUMIKA MASAYOSHI
Behind the Mask of
Emily Anderson. Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 328 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4725-0856-0.
Reviewed by Erik Schicketanz (The University of Tokyo)
Published on H-Shukyo (October, 2016)
Commissioned by Orion Klautau
The Search of Japanese Protestants for their Place in the Empire