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Okita Kiyokazu

オキタ キヨカズ | Okita Kiyokazu
Affiliation and department：
Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts

About Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts


Job title： Associate Professor
Research field  (4)： Philosophy - Chinese, Indian, Buddhist ,  Literature - General ,  History of thought ,  Religious studies
Research keywords  (7)： Aesthetics ,  Hindu Theology ,  Theories of Emotion ,  Bengali Literature ,  Hinduism ,  Indian Philosophy ,  Classical Sanskrit Literature
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (6)：
  • 2023 - 2027 The Aesthetic Theories of Devotion in Late Medieval South Asia
  • 2019 - 2024 Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia
  • 2018 - 2022 Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation
  • 2015 - 2018 Religion and Ethics in Early Modern and Modern South Asia: From the Perspective of Gaudiya Vaisnavism
  • 2013 - 2015 Faith and Ethics in Late Medieval to Early Modern South Asia: The Case of Gaudiya Vaisnavism
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Papers (12)：
  • Okita, Kiyokazu. “A Response to (1) ‘Entrapping the Elusive’ by Sajjad Sharif (2) ‘ভাবনা থেকে কবিতায়’by Srijato Bandyopadhyay”. SASC International Conference Series. 2023. 1. 26-30
  • Kiyokazu Okita. A Genealogy of Divine Paramour: Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Ujjvalanīlamaṇi in the History of Sanskrit Dramaturgy and Literary Criticism. Journal of Vaishnava Studies. 2021. 30. 1. 225-244
  • Kiyokazu Okita. The Theology of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya: Six Distinctive Features. Journal of Vaishnava Studies. 2021. 29. 2. 5-24
  • Kiyokazu Okita. Śleṣa Readings on Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1.1.1: Śrīnātha Cakravartī’s Caitanyamatamañjuṣā Commentary. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu). 2021. 69. 3. 979-985
  • "Rejecting Monism: Dvaita Vedānta’s Engagement with the Bhāgavatapurāṇa”. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 2020. 48. 3. 447-465
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MISC (3)：
  • Kiyokazu Okita. Book Review: Richard S. Weiss. (2019). The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism. (Oakland: University of California Press). International Journal of Asian Studies. 2021. 18. 1. 147-149
  • Kiyokazu Okita. Book Review: Rembert Lutjeharms. (2018). A Vaiṣṇava Poet in Early Modern Bengal: Kavikarṇapūra’s Splendour of Speech. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). International Journal of Hindu Studies. 2020. 24. 423-425
  • Kiyokazu Okita. Book Review: Neelima Shukla-Bhatt. (2015). Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat: A Legacy of Bhakti in Songs and Stories. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES. 2016. 13. 2. 245-248
Books (9)：
  • The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town
    Brill 2024 ISBN:9789004680470
  • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, edited by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro.
    Wiley Blackwell 2022
  • The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal "Divine Transgression: Devotion and Ethics in Bengali Vaiṣṇavism"
    Routledge 2019
  • Bhakti and Power: Debating India’s Religion of the Heart “Singing in Protest: Early Modern Hindu-Muslim Encounters in Bengali Hagiographies of Chaitanya”
    The University of Washington Press 2019 ISBN:0295745509
  • Indo Bunka Jiten "Vivekananda"
    Maruzen 2018 ISBN:9784621302354
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Lectures and oral presentations  (35)：
  • Toward a Social History of Greater Vaiṣṇava Vedānta: Difference and Non-Difference in the Gauḍīya School
    (Workshop: An Intellectual History of Late Vedānta 2024)
  • A Tapestry of Devotion: The Bhāgavata Traditions Before Caitanya
    (Oxford Center for Hindu Studies Seminar 2024)
  • Devotion in the Vernacular Millennium: The Teleology of Mādhurya-nization in Mālādhar Vasu’s Śrīkṛṣṇavijaya
    (The 40th Annual Sanskrit Traditions Symposium 2024)
  • When Cowherd Women Speak in Bengali: Transmission and Transformation in Guṇarāj Khān’s Śrīkṛṣṇavijaya
    (International Workshop “Translation and Textual Transmission across Languages and Cultures in Early Modern South Asia” Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 2024)
  • The Aesthetic Theories of Devotion in Sanskrit Literature: The Emergence of Bhakti-rasa in Late Medieval India
    (The Department of Sanskrit, University of Calcutta 2023)
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Professional career (3)：
  • Bachelor of Arts (International Christian University)
  • Master of Studies in the Study of Religion (University of Oxford)
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Theology (University of Oxford)
Work history (5)：
  • 2020/09 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Associate Professor
  • 2017/09 - 2020/09 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Assitant Professor
  • 2013/04 - 2017/09 Kyoto University The Hakubi Center Program-specific Assistant Professor
  • 2011/04 - 2013/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Kyoto University, Department of Indological Studies Post-doctoral Researcher
  • 2010/08 - 2011/03 University of Florida Department of Religion Lecturer
Association Membership(s) (3)：
The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies ,  Association for the Study of the History of Indian Thought ,  The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies
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