Chairperson:
SHIMAZONO Susumu
SHIMAZONO
Susumu is Professor in the
Department of Religious Studies of the University of Tokyo. He has
published widely on modern and contemporary religious movements
- including his well-known work on Aum Shinrikyo - as well as on
modern Japanese religions in general. He has published eight books
in Japanese, one in Korean, and one in English entitled From
Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern
Japan (Trans Pacific Press, 2004). Together with Mark Mullins
and Paul Swanson he edited Religion and Society in Modern Japan
(Asian Humanities Press, 1993). Recently, he started working in
the area of religion and medicine, including bioethics, and in the
new interdisciplinary field of life and death studies.
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