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.