Graduate Courses

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RELI W4402y Shinto in Japanese History. Michael Como.

This course examines the development of Shinto in Japanese history and the historiography of Shinto. We will cover themes such as myth, syncretism, sacred sites, iconography, nativism, and religion and the state.

RELI W4403 Bodies & Spirits in East Asia. Michael Como.

This seminar will focus on the role of early conceptions of both the body and demonology in the development of Chinese and Japanese religious traditions. By focusing on the development of ritual responses within these traditions of disease and spirits, the course will highlight the degree to which contemporaneous understandings of the body informed religious discourse across East Asia.

RELI G6030 Japanese Esoteric Buddhism. Bernard Faure.

An examination of the theoretical and ritual system of Esoteric Buddhism, mikkyō and its influence on Japanese culture.

RELI G6400 Readings in Tokugawa Religious and Intellectual History..

An examination of the current state of the field of Tokugawa religious and intellectual history through a survey of recently published scholarship on the period. The course covers intellectual history, Buddhism, Shinto and folk religion.

RELI G6500 Topics in Japanese Buddhism. Bernard Faure.

RELI G9035 Japanese Buddhist Literature.

RELI G9335 Japanese Religion: The Way of Yin-yang. Bernard Faure

RELI G9400 Readings in Japanese Religion. Bernard Faure