Klautau Orion

クラウタウオリオン | Klautau Orion

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Other affiliations (1)：

Tohoku University Department of Innovative Japanese Studies, School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University

Homepage URL (1)： https://web.tohoku.ac.jp/modern-japan/

Research field (5)： History of thought , Religious studies , History - Japan , Local studies , History - General

Research keywords (8)： Japanese Religion , Modern Buddhism , Historiographical Thought , Historiography , pseudohistory , The Occult , Esotericism , Shotoku Taishi

Research theme for competitive and other funds (14)：

2025 - 2028 Japanese Mind Cure Movements during the Total War and Occupation Period: Their Intersections with Buddhism and Shinto
2024 - 2027 An Intellectual History of Shotoku Taishi's Representation as a Constitution-maker
2023 - 2026 Japanese and Chinese Buddhist Exchanges at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Case of Indology
2023 - 2025 An Intellectual History of Kamakura New Buddhism and the Reformation in Modern Japan
2020 - 2023 近代仏教と民間精神療法:プラクティスの近代化とグローバル化

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Papers (24)：

Klautau, Orion. Echoes of the Ancient, Traces of the Occult: Prolegomenon to the Study of Gishi as Historiography. Rekishigaku Kenkyū (Journal of Historical Studies). 2025. 1063. 14-26; 40
Klautau, Orion. Shotoku Taishi as as Symbol of Democracy. Gakushikai Kaiho. 2025. 970. 44-48
Klautau, Orion. Shōtoku Taishi dans l’historiographie Meiji: un survol (Shōtoku Taishi in Meiji Historiography: A Survey). Relier. 2024. 32. 1
Klautau, Orion. Mikkyo and Esoteric Buddhism: The Discursive History of a Modern Entanglement. Kindai Bukkyō (Modern Buddhism). 2024. 31. 36-49
Klautau, Orion. The Politics of Essence: Towards a History of the Public Study of Buddhism in 1880s Japan. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 2024. 51. 2. 197-220

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MISC (48)：

Klautau, Orion. An Invitation to the Study of Japanese Occult History. Ōzora(Tohoku University Press Newsletter). 2025. 38. 3-5
クラウタウ、オリオン. Shōtoku Taishi Narratives and Multiple Temporalities: In Lieu of a Response. Kindai Bukkyō (Modern Buddhism). 2025. 32. 68-70
Klautau, Orion. The Boundary Between 'Truth' and 'Falsehood': Some Humble Observations on the Historian’s Craft. Rekishi Hyōron (The Historical Journal). 2025. 902. 96-102
Klautau, Orion. Reformation and Japanese Buddhism during the Meiji 10s (1877-1886). Journal of Religious Studies. 2025. 98. Suppl. 277-278
Klautau, Orion. Three Books of the Year. The Bukkyo Times Weekly. 2024. 3061. 4

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Books (21)：

Shotoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan
2024 ISBN:4480076212
Studies on Modern Buddhism (revised and enlarged edition)
Hozokan 2023 ISBN:4831855804
Handbook for Japanese Studies
Bungaku Tsushin 2022 ISBN:4909658734
The Present and Future of Japanese Intellectual History: Conflict and Harmony
Perikansha 2021 ISBN:4831515906
Series <i>History of Religion in Modern Japan</i>, vol. 5
Shunjusha 2021 ISBN:4393299655

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Lectures and oral presentations (109)：

Beyond the Seventeen-Article Constitution: The Modern Genealogy of Shōtoku Taishi as the Founder of Ninjutsu
(2025 Annual Congress of the Association of Japanese Intellectual History (Nihon Shisōshi Gakkai) 2025)
Buddhists and the Seventeen-Article Constitution in the Taisho Era: An Introduction
(84th annual conference of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies (Nihon Shūkyō Gakkai) 2025)
Global Esotericism and the Making of Modern Mikkyō
(XXIII International Association for the History of Religions Quinquennial World Congress 2025)
The Vibe of Decolonization: A Response
(XXIII International Association for the History of Religions Quinquennial World Congress 2025)
Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion
(Virtual Book Talk 2025)

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Education (1)：

2004 - 2010 Tohoku University

Professional career (1)：

PhD (Human Sciences) (Tohoku University)

Work history (9)：

2025/04 - 現在 International Research Center for Japanese Studies Research Team "Shinto and Buddhism in Modern Japan: From Separation to Reconnection" Team Researcher
2023/10 - 現在 Tohoku University Graduate School of Arts and Letters Associate Professor (joint appointment)
2015/04 - 現在 Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Associate Professor
2025/04 - 2025/06 University of Gothenburg Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion Invited Visiting Scholar
2022/04 - 2022/09 Nova University of Lisbon School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) Visiting Researcher

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Committee career (8)：

2023 - 現在 Oxford University Press, "Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism" Series Editorial Board Member
2022 - 現在 Japanese Association for Religious Studies Director
2020 - 現在 East Asian Network for the Academic Study of Esotericism (EANASE) Coordinator
2018 - 現在 Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (JJRS) Editorial Consultant
2018 - 現在 Association for Japanese Intellectual History Executive Committee

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Awards (3)：

2024/10 - Nakamura Hajime Eastern Research Center (Nakamura Hajime Tōhō Kenkyujo) 10th Nakamura Hajime Prize for the Promotion of Eastern Studies
2013/06 - Association for Indology and the Study of Religion 2013 Award
2011/02 - International Institute for the Study of Religions 2010 Award

Association Membership(s) (9)：

Association for Asian Studies (AAS) , American Academy of Religion (AAR) , European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) , Association of Japanese Intellectual History , Japanese Association for Religious Studies , Society for the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhist History , Modern Japan History Association (MJHA) , European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism , 印度学宗教学会

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