Visiting Research Scholar
Hans Martin KRÄMER
Degree/Brief Employment Record:
- 2005
- Ph.D., Ruhr University Bochum
- 2007
- Assistant Professor, Ruhr University Bochum
- 2011 -
- Visiting Research Scholar, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Specialized Fields:
Japanese History
Current Research Themes:
The Shin Buddhist Mission to Europe in the Early Meiji Years and the Formation of the Concept of “Religion” in Modern Japan
Major Publications:
- 2011
- “Beyond the Dark Valley: Reinterpreting Christian Reactions to the 1939 Religious Organizations Law”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 38(1), pp.181-211
- 2010
- Labeling the Religious Self and Others: Reciprocal Perceptions of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Confucians in Medieval and Early Modern Times (co-edited theme issue of Comparativ – Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 20(4), pp.7-109)
- 2009
- Defining Religion, Defining Heresy in Modern East Asia (edited theme issue of Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 33, pp.5-125)
- 2008
- “‘Not Befitting Our Divine Country’: Eating Meat in Japanese Discourses of Self and Other from the Seventeenth Century to the Present”. Food and Foodways 16(1), pp.33-62
- 2006
- “The Prewar Roots of ‘Equality of Opportunity’: A Fresh Look at Japanese Educational Ideals in the Twentieth Century”. Monumenta Nipponica 61(4), pp.521-549
