Symposium on Medieval Shinto 2007
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Columbia University, April 26-29th, 2007
SCHEDULE
Thursday, April 26th
Location: Randolph Room, Faculty House
Keynote Lecture
Allan Grapard, "The Boundaries of Medieval Shinto: Real or Imaginary?"
Dinner Reception at Bistro 1018
Friday, April 27th: From Place to Texts
Location: Harrison Room, Faculty House
Itō Satoshi, "The Medieval Cult of Gyōki and Ise Shrine"
Lucia Dolce, "Duality and the Kami: Reconfiguring Buddhist Notions of Ritual"
Bernard Faure, "Medieval Shinto Mythology and Sibiling Rivalry: Amaterasu and Susanoo in Buddhist Perspective"
Anna Andreeva, "Esoteric Kami Worship in Medieval Miwa: the Miwaryū, Fiction or Not?"
Abe Yasurō, "Shinto as Ecriture: The Formation and Transformation of Medieval Shinto Texts"
Saturday, April 28th: Iconology, Imperial Ideology, and Buddhism
Location: 628 Kent Hall
Kadoya Atsushi, "Shinto Iconology and Daoism"
Brian Ruppert, "Royal Progresses, Shrines, and Temples: Cloistered Sovereign, Kami and Buddha, and the Transformation of Religious Status in Early Medieval Japan"
Ryuichi Abe, "Kami and Medieval Dharma Transmission – On the Shrines Attached to Abhiseka Halls"
Sueki Fumihiko, "Kami, Hotoke and Tennōin Medieval Shinto Theory"
Jackie Stone, "Do Kami Ever Overlook Pollution? – Honji suijaku and the Death Taboo"
William Bodiford, "Matara: A Dream King Between Insight and Imagination"
Cocktail Reception at Bernard Faure's residence
Sunday, April 29th: Theoretical Perspectives
Location: 413 Kent Hall
Iyanaga Nobumi, "Medieval Shinto as a Form of Japanese Hinduism – An Attempt at Understanding Early Medieval Shinto"
Mark Teeuwen, "Comparative Perspectives on Jindō and Shinto"
Fabio Rambelli, "Re-positioning the Gods: Medieval Shinto in Comparative Perspective"
Bernard Faure, Concluding Remarks
