Research field (3)：
History - Japan
, Local studies
, Religious studies
Research keywords (9)：
mountaineering history
, narrative and folklore
, environmental studies
, women and gender
, history of religion
, Shinto
, Shugendo
, Buddhist studies
, Japanese religions
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
2022 - 2024 Mountains, Religion, and Spirituality: Modern Constructs and Ongoing Reconstructions
2018 - 2022 Reiterations of the Past: Reconstructions, Practices, and Places (QR Progress 100 Program)
2018 - 2020 The Historical Formation of Shugendo Through the Study of Regional Sites
2018 - 2019 Narrating Tradition and Place: Shugendō and the Mountain of the Veiled Entry (QR Wakaba Challenge)
Papers (10)：
Caleb Carter. “The Spread of Shinto and Shugendō in the Eighteenth Century: An Introduction to and Translation of the Shugen Ichijitsu Reisō Shintō mikki”. Japan Review. 2022. 37. 151-176
Caleb Carter. “Whose Place Is It? Layers of Community and Meaning in the Land of Shinto and Power Spots.” In Oxford Handbook of Religious Space and Place, ed. Jeanne Kilde. Oxford University Press. 2022
Caleb Carter. Instituting Bodies: From the Uncanny Yamabushi to the Professionalized Shugenja. Nagoya Shiritsu Daigaku Nenpo 名古屋市立大学年報. 2021
Caleb Carter. Imagining an Ancient Tradition: Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Shugendō at Mount Togakushi. 2020
Caleb Carter. Adding Value (with Limits): Pilgrimage and Women’s Exclusion at a Buddhism Mountain in Early Modern Japan. Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies. 2020. 1. 3
Caleb Carter. Janine Anderson Sawada. Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan (University of Hawai’i Press, 2021). 2023
小林奈央子, Caleb Carter. Translation: “The Necessity of Gender Perspective in Folk Religious Studies: Focusing on Female Practitioners” from (Minzoku shūkyō kenkyū ni okeru jendā shiten no hitsuyōsei: Josei gyōja o chūshin ni 民俗宗教研究におけるジェンダー視点の必要性: 女性行者を中心に), by Kobayashi Naoko 小林奈央子. 2022
Caleb Carter. Documentary Film Review: The Buddha Mummies of North Japan, dirs. Shayne Dahl and Satoshi Watanabe (2017). 2021
Caleb Carter. <Book Review>Gendai Shugendō no shūkyō shakaigaku: Sangaku shinkō no seichi Yoshino Kumano no kankōka to bunka shigenka, Amada Akinori (Tokyo: Iwata Shoin, 2019). Journal of Religion in Japan. 2020. 1-7
Caleb Carter. <Book Review>Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan: The Invisible Empire, edited by Fabio Rambelli. Nova Religio. 2020. 24. 2. 107-109
2008 - 2014 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian Languages and Cultures PhD, Buddhist Studies
2007 - 2008 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian Languages and Cultures MA, Buddhist Studies
1996 - 2000 Colorado College BA, Philosophy
Professional career (1)：
PhD (University of California, Los Angleles)
Work history (4)：
2018/03 - 現在 Kyushu University Faculty of Humanities Assistant Professor
2016 - 2018 Johns Hopkins University Program in East Asian Studies Japan Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow
2014 - 2016 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian Languages and Cultures Assistant Adjunct Professor
2011 - 2013 Keio University Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting Scholar
Committee career (2)：
2023/02 - 2028/02 American Academy of Religion (Japanese Religions Unit) Steering committee member
2021/03 - 2024/03 Society for the Study of Japanese Religions Chairman
Association Membership(s) (5)：
Japanese Association of Religious Studies
, Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
, 日本山岳修験学界
, Association for Asian Studies
, American Academy of Religion
