Professor

Japanese Religions and Society

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Harvard University
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

TEL: (617) 495-3220
FAX: (617) 495-3220
HOME: (617) 661-9586

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  fishing industry
• HISTORY
  cultural history; social history; women's history
• RELIGION
  Buddhism; Confucian values; new religions; philosophy and religion; religion and politics; state Shinto
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  cultural and social change; cultural stereotypes; family planning; gender, sex roles, women; identity and concept of self; medical anthropology; minority and ethnic groups; minority issues (domestic); popular culture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Professor, Asian and International Studies, Griffith University, 1990-92; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Princeton University, 1980-90.

IN JAPAN: 1983-84 - research; 1976-80 - dissertation research; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Marketing the Menacing Fetus (University of California Press, 1998); The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States (editor, E. J. Brill, 1999); Meiji Studies (editor, E. J. Brill); Shinto and the State, 1868-1988 (Princeton University Press, 1989); Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan (Princeton University Press, 1986); Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyukai Kyodan (Princeton University Press, 1984).