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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  (4): History of thought ,  Religious studies ,  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  (13):
  • 2024 - 2027 憲法作者としての聖徳太子:その表象の思想史的研究
  • 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
  • 2019 - 2022 The Reconception of Religion in Early Modern Europe and the Japanese Christian Mission
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Papers (30):
  • Klautau, Orion. From Nostradamus to Shōtoku Taishi: The Fate of Gotō Ben’s Eschatology. Chūō Kōron. 2022. 136. 5. 136-143
  • Klautau, Orion. Religious Discourse in Bakumatsu Japan: Ryūon’s Perceptions of the Self and Other. Nihon shisōshi no genzai to mirai: Tairitsu to chōwa [The Present and Future of Japanese Intellectual History: Conflict and Harmony], ed. Maeda Tsutomu and Karube Tadashi (Tokyo: Perikansha). 2021. 163-192
  • Orion Klautau & Hans Martin Krämer. Buddhism and Modernity in Japan: An Introduction. Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan. 2021. 1-35
  • Buddhism as (Self-)Cultivation: Murakami Senshō’s Educational Practices and their Range. Murakami Senshō to nihon kindai bukkyō [Murakami Senshō and Modern Japanese Buddhism], edited by Orion Klautau (Kyoto: Hozokan). 2021. 177-208
  • Entre essência e manifestação: Shotoku Taishi e Shinran durante a Guerra dos Quinze Anos (1931-1945) [trans.]. 2021. 26. 122-140
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MISC (45):
  • Klautau, Orion. Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan, By John Person. Social Science Japan Journal. 2024. 27. 103-106
  • Klautau, Orion. Jørn Borup, ed. “Japanese Buddhism in Europe”, parts 1 & 2, special issue of the Journal of Religion in Japan, vol. 10, no. 2-3, 2021; vol. 11, n.1, 2022. Modern Buddhism. 2023. 30. 274-278
  • Klautau, Orion. Nation, History, and Literature: New Perspectives toward Wartime Buddhism. Bukkyo Bungaku (Buddhist Literature). 2023. 48. 96-100
  • Klautau, Orion. Shōtoku Taishi as a Modern Constitutionalist. Gakusai nihon kenkyū. 2023. 3. 66-71
  • Klautau, Orion. Japanese Studies from the perspective of the Study of Religion. Nihongaku no kyōkasho [Handbook for Japanese Studies], ed. Motegi Ken’nosuke and Tomono Fumiaki (Tokyo: Bungaku Tsūshin). 2022. 158-162
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Books (6):
  • Shotoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan
    2024 ISBN:4480076212
  • Buddhism and modernity : sources from nineteenth-century Japan
    University of Hawaiʻi Press 2021 ISBN:0824884582
  • Murakami Senshō and Modern Japanese Buddhism
    Hozokan 2021 ISBN:4831855618
  • Postwar Historiography and Japanese Buddhism
    Hozokan 2016 ISBN:4831855448
  • The Politics of Buddhist Studies in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (special issue of Japanese Religions, 39/1-2)
    NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions, Kyoto 2014
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Lectures and oral presentations  (93):
  • Kamakura Buddhism and Reformation: Reconsidering Hara Katsurō's Historiographical Thought
    (Workshop: "Religious Ideas on Reform and Revolution in Modern and Contemporary Japan" 2024)
  • Japan's Okaruto and the Perspective of Global Religious History: A Response
    (Symposium: "Tohoku and the Occult: Imagining the Unseen" 2024)
  • In Search of New Buddhism: Reformation Tropes in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
    (The Fifth Annual Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies 2023)
  • Reformation and Buddhism in Takahashi Gorō
    (2023 Annual Congress of the Association for Japanese Intellectual History (Nihon Shisōshi Gakkai) 2023)
  • Teaching about the 'Occult' in a Japanese Public University: Historiographical Challenges
    (EANASE Hybrid Workshop "Pedagogy and Esotericism" 2023)
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Education (1):
  • 2004 - 2010 Tohoku University
Professional career (1):
  • PhD (Human Sciences) (Tohoku University)
Work history (7):
  • 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
  • 2022/04 - 2022/09 Nova University of Lisbon School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) Visiting Researcher
  • 2013/04 - 2015/03 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" Akademischer Mitarbaiter
  • 2012/04 - 2013/03 Ryukoku University Research Center for Buddhist Cultures in Asia Postdoctoral Fellow
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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 (2):
  • 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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