Weiss David

ヴァイスダーヴィッド | Weiss David

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Assistant Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://kyushu-u.academia.edu/DavidWeiss

Research field (1)： History of thought

Research keywords (3)： mythology , history of Korean-Japanese relations , Intellectual history of Japan

Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：

2023 - 2028 Japanese Ethnogenesis: Oka Masao's Theory of Cultural Strata as a Hybrid Outcome of Scholarly Exchange between Austria and Japan
2024 - 2027 Reconsideration of anthropological history before and after World War II based on archival materials
2018 - 2024 ‘National Cultures’ and Religiosity in Modernizing Germany and Japan

Papers (15)：

David Weiss. Korea’s Role in Japan’s Ethnogenesis Oka Masao’s Model of Cultural Strata and Tan’gun. Korea Europe Review. 2024. 6
Juljan Biontino, Bernhard Scheid, David Weiss. Korea, Japan, and the Vienna School: Political Impacts on Scholarship at the Dawn of East Asian Ethnology. Korea Europe Review. 2024. 6
David Weiss. Sind die kami übersetzbar? Überlegungen zu Jan Assmanns ‚Kosmotheismus‘ und dem politischen Shintō der Neuzeit und Moderne. Michael Mandelartz, David Weiss (eds.). Religionspolitik und politische Religion in Japan und Europa: Debatten um Polytheismus, Nationalismus und Kolonialismus (Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler). 2024. 87-103
Michael Mandelartz, David Weiss. Einleitung: Religion in Japan. Einführende Darstellung und religionssoziologische Überlegungen zu ihrer Aktualität. Michael Mandelartz, David Weiss (eds.). Religionspolitik und politische Religion in Japan und Europa: Debatten um Polytheismus, Nationalismus und Kolonialismus (Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler). 2024. 1-34
David Weiss. 日本国家のための儒学的建国神話: 呉泰伯説話. 前田良三編『彷徨する宗教性と国民諸文化:近代化する日独社会における神話・宗教の諸相』勉誠社. 2024. 13-29

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MISC (2)：

David Weiss. [Review of] Archaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, Technological, and Cultural Flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC-AD 600 by Song-nai Rhee and C. Melvin Aikens, with Gina L. Barnes. Archaeopress Publishing, 2021. Journal of Japanese Studies. 2023. 49. 2. 426-430
David Weiss. [Review of] Stefan Köck, Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia, and Bernhard Scheid, eds. Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. OAG Notizen. 2021. 12/2021. 47-53

Books (4)：

Korea, Japan, and the Vienna School of Ethnology (Korea Europe Review 6)
Korea Europe Center 2024
Religionspolitik und politische Religion in Japan und Europa: Debatten um Polytheismus, Nationalismus und Kolonialismus
J.B. Metzler 2024 ISBN:9783662687727
The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan's Cultural Memory : Ancient Myths and Modern Empire
Bloomsbury Academic 2022 ISBN:9781350271180
Sources of Mythology: Ancient and Contemporary Myths
Lit 2014 ISBN:9783643904751

Lectures and oral presentations (44)：

Auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln des japanischen Volks: Oka Masao und die Herausbildung der japanischen Ethnologie
(Department of Japanese Studies, University of Tübingen 2025)
Oka Masao und die Genese des japanischen Volks
(Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2024)
The Vienna School in Japan: Culture Circle Theory and Its Impact on the Study of Japanese Mythology
(17th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo 2024)
Mythical State Founders and their Role in the Construction of National Identities in Japan and Korea: The Cases of Amaterasu, Jinmu, and Tan’gun
(26th Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tōkyō 2024)
Myth and Ethnicity: The Role of Mythology in Oka Masao’s Theory of Japanese Ethnogenesis
("Japan's Imperial Mythology: De/Sacralization in the Context of Exegesis, Politics and Folklore," University of Tuebingen 2023)

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Education (3)：

2012 - 2017 University of Tuebingen Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Japanese Studies Japanese Studies
2009 - 2012 University of Tuebingen Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Department of Japanese Studies Language and Culture of Japan
2006 - 2009 University of Tuebingen Faculty of Humanities Japanese Studies

Professional career (3)：

Bachelor of Arts (University of Tuebingen)
Master of Arts (University of Tuebingen)
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Tuebingen)

Work history (7)：

2021/08 - 現在 Kyushu University Faculty of Humanities Assistant Professor
2021/08 - 現在 Kyushu University School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation Assistant Professor
2018/04 - 2021/07 RIKKYO UNIVERSITY College of Arts Department of Letters, Course of German Literature Assistant Professor
2018/04 - 2021/07 RIKKYO UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Arts Field of Study: German Literature Assistant Professor
2018/04 - 2021/07 RIKKYO UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Arts Field of Study: German Literature Assistant Professor

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Association Membership(s) (4)：

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG) , 日本思想史学会 , European Association for Japanese Studies , International Association for Comparative Mythology

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