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职称:Professor and Chair
所属学校:University of California-Santa Barbara
所属院系:East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies Department
所属专业:East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General
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My main field of research and teaching is Japanese religions and intellectual history, and especially the esoteric Buddhist tradition. In particular, I have been studying the interactions between Buddhism and local cults in several Asian traditions on the one hand, and the history of the development of the Shinto discourse in Japan on the other. In particular, I envision late medieval and early modern Shinto as the result of complex processes involving both the localization of Buddhism (as a translocal religion) in Japan and the opening of the Japanese tradition to several Asian intellectual trends (such as Neo-Confucianism and Daoism from China, but also Neo-Brahmanism from India), together with an enhanced awareness of cultural identity and particularities. I am also working on the impact (often downplayed or ignored) of Indian cultural elements on pre- modern Japan. Furthermore, I am interested in issues of cultural identity (especially in Japan and in Italy, and on the representations of Italy circulating in Japan), more general themes of the history of religion (such as iconoclasm, syncretism, and economic aspects of the sacred), and cultural semiotics. I am currently working on a series of interrelated projects dealing with geopolitical factors in premodern Japanese culture and religion. The first is a study of the ways in which premodern Japanese envisioned Asia beyond China and Korea, with special focus on India, the Islamic world, Southeast Asia, and imaginary peoples in outlying regions. The second is a monograph on the impact of Indian culture in premodern Japan. The third is a revisionist history of Shinto from the standpoint of interactions with other cultures and the underlying (and resulting) geopolitical factors. In the meantime, I have almost completed a manuscript on issues concerning boundaries, the outside, and transgression within the Buddhist soteriological discourse in Japan, which also deals with issues of localization of ideas and practices. I am also writing an introduction to the intellectual world of Japanese classical Buddhism (in Japanese) and a textbook on Japanese religions.