Gaitanidis Ioannis

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor

Research field (3)： Cultural anthropology and folklore , Local studies , Religious studies

Research keywords (2)： Anthropology of Religion , Medical Anthropology

Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：

2022 - 2025 Non-organised religion and fraud in the Heisei era: A history of entanglements between 'religion' and 'consumption'
2023 - 2023 Business Spirits: Contested Terrains of Trade Models and Religious Value
2023 - 2023 How can we best understand spiritual alternativity?
2023 - 2023 Business Spirits: Contested Terrains of Trade Models and Religious Value
2020 - 2023 Modern Buddhism and Popular Spiritual Therapies: The Modernisation and Globalisation of Practice

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Papers (16)：

Ioannis Gaitanidis, Erica Baffelli. Introduction: Western Esotericism, the Cultic Milieu, and Lived Religion: Problems and Possibilities of “Other-than-Religion” Concepts. 2024. 7. 33-42
Gaitanidis Ioannis. 'Spiritual Sales' as a Consumption Issue: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives of Capitalist Values. The Religious Law. 2023. 42. 183-206
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Satoko Shao-Kobayashi. Polarized agents of internationalization: an autoethnography of migrant faculty at a Japanese University. Higher Education. 2022
Ioannis Gaitanidis. A “Nihilist Philosophy?”. Journal of Religion in Japan. 2021. 10. 2-3. 271-298
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Justin Stein. Japanese Religions and the Global Occult: An Introduction and Literature Review. Japanese Religions. 2021. 44. 1-2. 1-32

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MISC (23)：

Ioannis Gaitanidis, 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
Ioannis Gaitanidis. コメント: オカルティズム研究の方法論的課題--吉永先生のアプローチを手掛かりに. 近代仏教. 2024. 31. 56-61
ヤニス・ガイタニディス. 書評:小池靖『心理療法が宗教になるとき』. 宗教研究. 2023. 97. 3. 156-161
ガイタニディス・ヤニス. スピリチュアルとビジネスの共通構成性を考える. 現代思想. 2023. 51. 12. 32-41
Ioannis Gaitanidis. Book Review: Timothy O. Benedict, Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 2023. 50. 1. 105-111

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Books (12)：

Teaching Japan : A handbook
MHM Ltd Japan Documents Series and Amsterdam University Press 2024 ISBN:9784909286468
Special Issue: Western Esotericism, the Cultic Milieu, and Lived Religion: Problems and Possibilities of “Other-than-Religion” Concepts
2024
Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?
2022 ISBN:9781350262614
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions
Bloomsbury Academic 2021 ISBN:9781350043732
Special Issue: "Japanese Religions and the Global Occult"
Japanese Religions vol.44 2021

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Lectures and oral presentations (69)：

「霊感商法」の被害者は宗教と消費の関係をどう考えているか
(日本宗教学会第83学術大会 2024)
“What was your state of mind when you bought it?”: The Co-Constitution of Legal Understandings of Religion and Consumption in the History of Spiritual Sales
(Workshop: Law and religion, in comparison: The co-making of two epistemic fields 2024)
Healthist Arguments, Political Ideologies and National Responses in the Context of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Japan
(Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference 2024)
Fear, Legal Victimhood and ‘Fraudulent’ Religion in Contemporary Japan
(Fear Research Network (FeRN) 2024)
Omission and the Globalization of Academic Concepts (online)
(Religion and the Occult in Modern Japan 2024)

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Professional career (1)：

Work history (2)：

2022/04 - 現在 Chiba University Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies Associate Professor
2020/04 - 2022/03 Chiba University Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies Assistant Professor

Committee career (3)：

Awards (2)：

2019/11 - Toshiba International Foundation, European Association for Japanese Studies Essay Competition Grand Prize The Future of Japanese Studies: Researching and Teaching Transnational Contingencies
2008/09 - The Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship

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