Джаст Б. Штайн . Justin B. Stein .

Justin B. Stein is a doctoral candidate and course instructor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. His research deals with transnational exchanges of religious culture in the modern North Pacific. Justin’s dissertation research on the twentieth-century development of Usui Reiki Ryōhō investigates intersections between this spiritual healing system and Buddhist practice in Japan, Hawaii, and North America, including Reiki’s roots in Japanese healing practices employing mikkyō (esoteric Buddhism), its pre-war dissemination through Buddhist infrastructure in Hawaii’s Japanese diaspora, and the dovetail of its post-war success with the rise of other secularized Asian religious practices Buddhist meditation, in Cold War North America. He has begun work on a second project about a transnational, inter-sectarian Buddhist peace movement organized in the 1930s by Jōdo Shin (True Pure Land) youth groups in Japan, Hawaii, and North America. http://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/
(photo by Silke Reents)

 

2nd Nanzan Seminar for the Study of Japanese Religions

From 30 to 31 May 2015 the Nanzan Institute sponsored its second Seminar for the Study of Japanese Religions. Some 36 persons were in attendance, including the 5 presenters and 5 invited commentators. A report of the event has been published in Institute’s annual Bulletin. Photos of the Seminar

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Presenters

1. Eric Swanson (Harvard University). “The Idea of Submission in An’nen: Towards a Reconsideration of Control of Demons through Samadhi.”
2. Luke Thompson (Columbia University). “Bringing Śākyamuni to Japan:
   The Japanese Reception of the Hikekyō and the Medieval Fabrication of Myth.”
3. Paride Stortini (University of Chicago). “East and West of the Tsukiji Honganji.”
4. Justin Stein (University of Toronto). “Usui Reiki Ryōhō, Reiki, and the Discursive Space of Spiritual Healing in Twentieth-Century Japan.”
5. Kyle Peters (University of Chicago). “Producing the Self-Itself.”

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Discussants
　阿部泰郎 Abe Yoshirō（Nagoya University）
　Kobayashi Naoko 小林奈央子（Aichi Gakuin University）
　Ōtani Eiichi 大谷栄一（Bukkyō University）
　Yoshida Kazuhiko 吉田一彦（Nagoya City University）
　Yoshinaga Shin’ichi 吉永進一（Maizuru National College of Technology）

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Report of the 1st Seminar (2013)

http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/activities/nanzan-seminars-2015/