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Edward Drott

ドロット エドワード | Edward Drott
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate Professor
Research field  (1): Religious studies
Research keywords  (1): Japanese Religions, Religion and the Body, Religion and Medicine
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2023 - 2023 Buddhism and Wellbeing in Contemporary Japan
  • 2021 - 2023 Collaborative research project "The Moral Significance of Consciousness in Japan: Religious and Cultural Contexts"
Papers (8):
  • Edward R. Drott. Sensation, Salvation, and Simile: A Study of the Saḷāyatana-vagga. Buddhism and the Body. 2023. 20-45
  • Edward R. Drott. Aging Bodies, Minds and Selves: Representations of Senile Dementia in Japanese Film. Journal of Aging Studies. 2018. 47. 10-23
  • Edward R. Drott (Role: Author and Translator). Overcoming Illness with Insight: Kokan Shiren's Treatise on the Nature of Illness and Its Manifestations. Buddhism and Medicine. 2017. 61-83
  • Edward R. Drott. Bukkyō igaku to jukyō igaku no kiro de: Manase Dōsan no Rōjinmon. Manase Dōsan to Kinsei nihon iryō shakai (Manase Dōsan and Early Modern Japanese Medical Society). 2015
  • Edward R. Drott. Aging in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Religion Compass. 2015. 9. 1. 1-12
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MISC (4):
  • Edward R. Drott. Review: Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan by Jacqueline I. Stone. The Journal of Religion. 2019. 99. 4. 580-582
  • Edward R. Drott. Review: The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. By Hank Glassman. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. xii + 292 pages. ISBN (cloth) 978 0 8248 3443 2; ISBN (paper) 978 0 8248 3581 1. Journal of Religion in Japan. 2013. 2. 1. 85-88
  • Edward R. Drott. Review: Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War (review). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 2012. 72. 2. 402-407
  • Edward R. Drott. Review: Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism. Journal of Asian Studies. 2010. 69. 4. 1251-1253
Books (2):
  • Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle over Organ Transplants: America's Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics
    Bloomsbury Academic 2023 ISBN:9781350254992
  • Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan
    University of Hawai`i Press 2016 ISBN:9780824866860
Lectures and oral presentations  (26):
  • “Fringe States: The Altered and Exceptional Mind”
    (East West Philosopher’s Conference, Honolulu 2024)
  • Gates, Roots, and Resting Places: Theories of the Senses in Premodern Japan (cancelled due to COVID travel restrictions)
    (Académie du Midi, Alet-les-Bains (France))
  • Buddhist Theories of the Senses in Premodern Japan
    ("Bodies of Buddhism: Somaesthetic Explorations," Boca Raton Campus of Florida Atlantic University, the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture 2020)
  • Old Age and Aging in Pre-Edo-Period Medical Texts.
    (Imagining and Developing Images of the Body in Medicine, Art, and Folk Religion 2019)
  • Buddhist Perspectives on Excreta in Premodern Japan
    (International Workshop: The Burden of Superfluous Matters: Towards a Transcultural History of Bodily Wastes 2018)
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Professional career (2):
  • M.A. (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Ph.D (University of Pennsylvania)
Work history (9):
  • 2016/09 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts Associate Professor of Japanese Religions
  • 2018/08/29 - 2020/03/31 International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  • 2014/09 - 2016/09 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions
  • 2009/08/01 - 2014/08/31 University of Missouri Dept. of Religious Studies Assistant Professor
  • 2007/09/01 - 2009/06/30 Dartmouth College Religion Dept. Lecturer
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Awards (12):
  • 2022/12 - Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan Buddhism and Wellbeing in Contemporary Japan
  • 2022/06 - Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University FLA Special Research Budget Grant
  • 2019/12 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan Buddhism and Wellbeing in Contemporary Japan (award declined due to COVID travel restrictions)
  • 2018/10 - Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University FLA Special Research Budget Grant
  • 2016/10 - Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University FLA Special Research Budget Grant
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Association Membership(s) (4):
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture ,  American Academy of Religion ,  Association for Asian Studies ,  Associate in Research, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University
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