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1. LECTURE> Friedrich on Temples and Depopulation (at Tohoku University)
2. JOURNAL> Publication Announcement: Religious Studies in Japan Volume 3 (2016)

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LECTURE> Friedrich on Temples and Depopulation (at Tohoku University)

by Orion Klautau

(apologies for cross-posting)
Dear list members,
The Tohoku University Global Japanese Studies Initiative would like to invite you to the first installment of its lecture series:
Daniel Friedrich (McMaster/Kokugakuin)
"Jiin to Kaso: Gendai nihon bukkyo ni okeru 'yakkai na mondai' o megutte" [Temples and Depopulation: On a 'Wicked Problem' of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism]
Respondents:
Abe Tomonori (Tohoku University)
Dale K. Andrews (Tohoku Gakuin University)
January 29, 2016 (15:00-17:00)
Tohoku University, Grad. School of Intl. Cultural Studies, r.101
(41 Kawauchi, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8576, Japan)
The lecture will be in Japanese. For details, please access the URL below:
http://www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/blog/news/course/11673.html
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Best regards,
Orion Klautau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
Graduate School of Intl. Cultural Studies
Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan)

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JOURNAL> Publication Announcement: Religious Studies in Japan Volume 3 (2016)

by Jeff Schroeder

Religious Studies in Japan has published the following articles and reviews in Volume 3 (2016). All are free for viewing and downloading at http://jpars.org/online/view-issue/vol-3-2016

FOREWORD
Keta Masako

ARTICLES
Satō Hiroo, “Vengeful Spirits, Divine Punishment, and Natural Disasters: Catastrophe and Religion in Japan”
Sumika Masayoshi, “Nationalism, Religion, and Social Darwinism: Nation and Religion in the Works of Katō Genchi and Liang Qichao”
Terada Yoshirō, “Views on the Pursuit of Happiness in Japanese New Religions: The Vitalistic Conception of Salvation and Systems of Instruction”

REVIEW ARTICLES
Jeff Schroeder, “Historical Blind Spots: The Overlooked Figure of Chikazumi Jōkan”

BOOK REVIEWS
John K. Nelson, Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan, reviewed by Terazawa Shigenori
Emily Anderson, Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God, reviewed by Murayama Yumi

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