Associate Professor
ISOMAE Jun'ichi
Education:
- 1984
- B.A. in Japanese Historiography, Shizuoka University
- 1990
- M.A. in Religious Studies, University of Tokyo
- 2010
- Ph.D., University of Tokyo
Professional Experience:
- 2010 - 2011
- Research Fellow, Consortium “Dynamics of History of Religions”, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- 2008 - 2009
- Visiting Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Monotheistic Religions, Doshisha University
- 2007 - present
- Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 2003 - 2004
- Visiting Scholar, The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
- 2003
- Visiting Professor, Institut für Japanologie, Tübingen Universität
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
- 1997 - 2007
- Associate Professor, Department of Historiography, Japan Women's University
- 1997
- Instructor, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Methodology for Investigation of Religious Ruins)
- 1995-1996
- Instructor, Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo (Historiography of the Ougimachi Library)
- 1991-1997
- Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, The University of Tokyo
- 1988-94 & 1998-99
- Research Associate, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo (Material Classification of the Jomon Clay Figurine Collection)
Specialized Fields:
Discourse on religion, early-modern to modern Japan
History of Japanese historiography, early-modern to modern Japan
Japanese mythology, from antiquity to modern interpretations
Worship of Goddess in Japanese primitive age
Current Research Themes:
Renarrating history and religion in modern Japan
Keywords for Research:
Narrative, Otherness, Perplexity
Major publications:
Books
- 2010
- Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture. London & Oakville: Equinox Publishing. 174p.
Articles
- 2006
- “Study of Religion under Postcolonial Cituations”, The Council of the Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, 35:4. (in English)
Academic Society Membership
- Association for Asian Studies
- American Academy of Religion
- North American Association for Study of Religion
- Japanese Association for Religious Studies
