Association for Asian Studies

Association for Japanese Intellectual History 日本思想史学会

Japanese Association for Modern East Asian History東アジア近代史学会

The Historical Science Society of Japan歴史学研究会

“Civil Religion in the US, Japan, and China,” Critical Research on Religion Conference, Hong Kong, Jun. 7-10, 2024

“The Month without Gods: Izumo Shinto in Early Modern Japan” Association of Japanese Intellectual History annual meeting, Tohoku University, Sendai, Nov. 2022 「神無月―近世期における出雲神道の形成」日本思想史学会大会、東北大学、2023年11月

“The Resurrection of Ookuninushi at Izumo Shrine in the Early Seventeenth Century” Association of Japanese Intellectual History annual meeting, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Nov. 2022「近世初期の出雲大社における大国主神の『復活』」日本思想史学会大会、同志社大学、2022年11月

“Shinto and Japanese Nationalism” Institute of Japanese Studies, Hallym University (South Korea), Zoom, Jul. 2021「神道と日本のナショナリズム」韓国翰林大学校日本学研究所、ズーム、2021年7月

“Yasukuni Shrine and the Politics of Religious Freedom” The NZASIA 23^rd Biennial International Conference 2019, Wellington, New Zealand, Nov. 2019

“The Backside of Japan: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Space in Northeast Asia” Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin, Nov. 2017

“Citizen, Nation, and the Constitutional State in 19^th Century Europe and Japan” The Global History Collaborative (GHC) Joint Seminar in Paris, EHESS Paris, France, Nov. 2015

“Japanese Studies in the Age of Globalization” Cultural Typhoon: Cultural Studies Association Conference, Osaka, Aug. 2015「グローバリゼーションの時代の日本研究」カルチャル・タイフーン大会、大阪、2015年8月

“A history of jiao in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan” Institute of Humanities, Fudan University, Oct. 2014. “从教化到宗教和教育—江户明治时代的教的历史” 复旦大学文史研究院，2014年10月

“Religion, Public Interest, and Law in Contemporary Japan” Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Philadelphia, Mar. 2013

“Religion, Secularity, and the Public Sphere in East and Southeast Asia” International Conference, Convener Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Mar. 7-8, 2013

“Ritual Transformation at the Izumo Shrine during the Meiji Period,” International Conventions of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Macao, Jun. 2012

Books and Book Chapters

In English

 The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)

“Early Modern Japan” in Indo-Pacific: History and International Relations in Rising Asia, eds. Matsuda Yasuhiro and Sahashi Ryo (forthcoming from Springer in 2024) (an open-access Asian Studies textbook).

“‘Three Cs’ and the Three Mysteries: How Esoteric Buddhism Contributed to the Containment of the COVIC-19 Pandemic in Japan,” in CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, eds. Emily Zoe Hertzman, Natalie Lang, Erica M. Larson, and Carola E. Lorea (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2023): 53-57.

“Yasukuni Shrine and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Contemporary Japan.” State and Religion: Between Conflict and Cooperation, eds. Henning Glaser and Dirk Ehlers, (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020): 535-561.

“Ritual, Purity and Power: Rethinking Shinto in Restoration Japan, 1850-1890” Religion and Politics in Japan: White Lotus, Red Sun, ed. Roy Starrs (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011): 28-53.

In Japanese

「東京帝国大学における海法研究」『「東京学派」の研究』、2022、91-118.（”Maritime Law Studies at the Tokyo Imperial University,” Proceedings of Symposium “Studies of the ‘Tokyo School’” 2022: 91-118）

「国体、神道と近代日本の国家権力―「カミ」という視点から」楊際開・伊東貴之　編『明治国家と中国革命』　ミネルヴァ書房、2021、133-154.  (“Kokutai, Shinto, and State Authority of Modern Japan – From the Perspective of Kami.” Meiji State and Chinese Revolution, eds. Yang Jikai and Ito Takayuki, Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2021: 133-154)

「曲がり角の人文学知と日本の大学のグローバル化」 坪井秀人　編『バブルと失われた20年』（シリーズ『戦後日本を読みかえる』第6巻） 臨川書店、2018、61-92.  (“Humanities Knowledge in Transition and the Globalization of Japanese Universities.” The Bubble Era and the Lost Two Decades, ed. Tsuboi Hideto, Tokyo: Rinsen Book, 2018: 61-92)

「如何に国際日本研究を教えるか」 松田利彦等　編『なぜ国際日本研究なのか』 晃洋書房、2018/3、58-71. (“How to Teach Global Japan Studies?” Why Global Japan Studies? eds., Matsuda Toshihiko et al, Kyoto: Koyo Shobo, 2018: 58-71)

「「教化」から「教育」と「宗教」へ―近世・近代日本における「教」の歴史」伊東貴之　編 『「心身／身心」と環境の哲学―東アジアの伝統思想を媒介に考える』 汲古書院、2016、613-632.  (“From ‘Edification’ to ‘Education’ and ‘Religion:’ An Intellectual History of kyō (teaching) in Early Modern and Modern Japan,” in Mind/body and Environment – A Philosophical Exploration through the Mediation of East Asian Traditional Thought, ed. Ito Takayuki, Tokyo: Kyūko Shoin, 2016: 613-632)

「宗教、自由と公共性―靖国参拝違憲訴訟を考える」磯前純一・川村覚文 編 『他者論的転回―宗教と公共空間』 なかにしや、2016/3、201-226. (“Religion, Freedom, and Publicness – A Look into the Lawsuits against Japanese Prime Minister’s Visit to the Yasukuni Shrine,” In Search of the Other: Religion and the Public Space, Kyoto: Nakanishiya, 2016: 201-226).

「日本研究の未来：グローバルな知識生産体系への参入」 『日本研究』 第53集（特集）、2016/6、51-62. (“The Future of Japanese Studies: Participation in Global Knowledge Production” in Nihon kenkyū (Japanese Studies, Bulletin of International Research Center for Japanese Studies), No. 53 (special issue) (Spring 2016).

「近世期における神道と権威構築」(“Shinto and Authority Construction in Early Modern Japan”)『現代思想』(Modern Thought) Vol.41-16 (Nov. 2013): 174-197．

Articles in Journals and Serial Publications

“Race, Buddhism, and the Formation of Oriental (Tōyō) Philosophy in Meiji Japan,” Journal of Japanese Philosophy Vol.9 (2023), 53-76.

“‘The Backside of Japan,’ Development, and Imperialism in Northeast Asia,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 19, Issue 6, Number 3 (March 15, 2021), 1-13. (https://apjjf.org/2021/5/Zhong.html)

“Freedom, Religion, and the Making of the Modern State in Meiji Japan, 1868-1889,” Asian Studies Review 38, No.1 (Dec. 2013), 53-70.

Translations

〔日→英〕磯前順一「天に仰ぎ地に平伏して生きる―愛知県神道伏見稲荷東洋大教会の歴史―」 “Revering the Heaven and Prostrating before the Earth: History of the Shinto Fushimi Inari Great Tōyō Church” in Religion, Politik und Ideologie: Beitraege zu einer kritischen Kulturwissenschaft (München, Germany: IUDICIUM Verlag GmbH, 2018)

〔日→英〕磯前順一「いかにして近世日本を研究するか―近代の「想像／創造」論を超えて」 “Reimagining Early Modern Japan: Beyond the Invented/Imagined Modern Nation” in Value, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan (Leiden: Brill 2015)

〔英→日〕Prasenjit Duara, “The Changing Role of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Agenda of Asian Studies” 「変わりつつある人文社会科学の役割とアジア研究のアジェンダ」国際日本文化研究センター紀要雑誌『日文研』（52号）2014.3

〔英→日〕Helen Hardacre, “The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University” 「ハーバード大学エドウィン・O・ライシャワー日本研究所」国際日本文化研究センター紀要雑誌『日文研』（52号）2014.3