Professors Information

Email: muraka-t[at]sophia.ac.jp
Tel: 03-3238-4049
Office: 10-655

MURAKAMI Tatsuo
村上 辰雄

Associate Professor
Religion

B.A., Beloit College
M.A., Syracuse University
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Research and Teaching Interests:
My main interest in the study of religion has been its methods and theories and, to this extent, I have engaged in some researches in the history of the discipline, examining notions such as primitivism, fetishism, colonialism and modernity. Through these methodological inquiries, I have come to recognize the problem of materiality as a locus for a critical reflection as well as a creative exploration in the study of religion. Recently I have been conducting researches in religious violence, culture of debt and Pentecostalism, all of which, in their own ways, address the problem of materiality.

Selected Publications

Book chapters

COURSES

Faculty of Liberal Arts

RPH202 FUNDAMENTALS OF RELIGION
RPH303 THE ENCOUNTER OF RELIGIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD
RPH335 RELIGION, CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE
RPH401 INDIGENOUS RELIGION

Graduate Program in Global Studies

Course No.                              Title
AG510Z GLOBALIZATION AND POPULAR RELIGION
AG707Z ADVANCED STUDIES IN GLOBALIZATION AND POPULAR RELIGION

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