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
- “Asking the Question of the Origin of Religion in the Age of Globalization,” in Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long, Jennifer Reid, ed. (Lexington Books, 2003) pp. 7-25.
- 「宗教としてのフェティシズム-近代「宗教」概念理解への一つのアプローチ」田中雅一編『フェティシズム論の系譜と展望』京都大学学術出版会、2009年、41-63頁
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 |