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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  (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  (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 (21):
  • 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. From Nostradamus to Shōtoku Taishi: The Fate of Gotō Ben’s Eschatology. Chūō Kōron. 2022. 136. 5. 136-143
  • Klautau, Orion. Entre essência e manifestação: Shotoku Taishi e Shinran durante a Guerra dos Quinze Anos (1931-1945) [trans.]. Revista Jesus Historico. 2021. 26. 122-140
  • Japanese Thought: The (Re-)Making of an Idea. Anais do XI congresso de estudos japoneses no Brasil/XXIV encontro nacional de professores universitários de língua, literatura e cultura japonesa (ed. C. J. Ferreira, Manaus: Universidade Federal do Amazonas). 2017. 311-322
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MISC (43):
  • Gaitanidis, Ioannis, Orion Klautau. (Re)defining Esotericism: A Response from Two Scholars in Japan. Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism. 2024. 24. 2. 223-226
  • Klautau, Orion. On the Symposium 'Modern Buddhist History and Research on the Occult: The Tasks Left by Yoshinaga Shin'ichi'. Kindai Bukkyō (Modern Buddhism). 2024. 31. 1-4
  • 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. Kindai Bukkyō (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
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Books (20):
  • Shotoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan
    2024 ISBN:4480076212
  • 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
  • Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan
    University of Hawaiʻi Press 2021 ISBN:0824884582
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Lectures and oral presentations  (100):
  • Envisioning “Occult” History: The Category of Gishi in Modern Japan
    (2nd International Conference of the East Asian Network for the Academic Study of Esotericism 2024)
  • Matsumoto Hikojirō and Kamakura New Buddhism as Religious Reformation
    (2024 Annual Congress of the Association of Japanese Intellectual History (Nihon Shisōshi Gakkai) 2024)
  • New Perspectives on the Discourse of 'Kamakura New Buddhism as Religious Reformation': Hara Katsurō and Beyond
    (74th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Buddhism 2024)
  • The Postwar Ninja Phenomenon as Global Religious History: <i>Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya</i> and Beyond
    (Conference “Esotericism and Global Visual Culture” 2024)
  • Reformation and Japanese Buddhism during the Meiji 10s
    (83rd annual conference of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies (Nihon Shūkyō Gakkai) 2024)
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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 (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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