Brian Ruppert
Professor, authority on premodern Japanese religion. Author of "Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan" (Harvard U. Asia Center) and co-author, "A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism" (Wiley-Blackwell).
@sudasana.bsky.social
無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; 🇨🇦🏴; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info
@paulcopp.bsky.social
Humanities & Sinology & Buddhist Studies at UChicago (but really mainly Zen & eco-humanities these days) (and mandolin)
@djbuddha.bsky.social
teller of dad jokes, keeper of cats, president of America’s oldest Buddhist seminary, wrote the book on American Buddhism (literally) http://djbuddha.org
@levimclaughlin.bsky.social
Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
@mcmullen.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.
@tobenedict.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Sociology@KwanseiGakuin, working on Religions in Japan, Death/Dying, Medical Anthro, 🇯🇵育ち🇺🇸人, author=https://www.ucpress.edu/books/spiritual-ends/paper, views=own
@paulakolata.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food. Current project: REFUSE on Buddhist excess and discard.
@simonalazzerini.bsky.social
Shinjo Ito Postdoc, UC Berkeley | PhD Religious Studies, Stanford University |Chinese and Japanese Buddhism | Hārītī 鬼子母神 | Demonology and creepy stuff 👹 | Italiana 🇮🇹 She/her
@gerrywellmouth.bsky.social
I profess history in the strange land of Wisconsin. I was born and raised, and spent most of my life in greater San Diego (the part adjacent to the border and then Chula Vista), with time away at school in Santa Barbara, and six years in Tokyo.
@louisehk.bsky.social
Japanese to English literary translator, occasional actor, film and theatre fan, proud 浜っ子
@torquil.bsky.social
Japanese literature at UCLA. Author of Man’yoshu and the Imperial Imagination, 万葉集と帝国的想像, The Kokinshu: Selected Poems. From Cádiz.
@mgwatson.bsky.social
Premodernist. Retired from teaching but not from research (nō drama, medieval Japanese prose writings). Moved to Iwaki, Fukushima-ken, after 44 years living in Yokohama and Tokyo. Photos of sea, mountains etc. posted to Pinksky and Instagram (wldnsmkt).
@bungakureport.bsky.social
日本語・日本文学の研究書を中心に人文学書全般を刊行する出版社、文学通信。webでも積極的に活動することで、多様な情報をつなげ、多くの「問い」を世に生み出していきます。 公式サイト https://bungaku-report.com/
@aozorabunko.bsky.social
A volunteer PR account for Aozora Bunko (Blue Sky Open Collection: a nonprofit digital archive of Japanese Literature) www.aozora.gr.jp デジタルアーカイブ「青空文庫」のお知らせ用アカウントです。
@buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social. 🗺 buddhasinthewest.com 🌟 New Posts: Mon, Wed, & Fri
@justinwhitaker.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent at Buddhistdoor Global (BDG); PhD in Buddhist ethics from U London, writer on Pali Buddhism and interfaith dialogue
@elsacuille.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Strasbourg. Medieval China. 太平廣記. Religious Specialists in Anomaly Accounts. ITI Hisaar. UMR Archimède.
@soraaad.bsky.social
SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
@danamirsalis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
@hoshinos2.bsky.social
一番大きく取るならば宗教学、中間的には近代宗教史、最も狭くは近代日本宗教史の研究者です。こちらでもどうぞよろしく。 https://sites.google.com/view/hoshinoweb/home
@arianam.bsky.social
Himalayan & South Asian art history, Bhutan, Tibet, Buddhist art & ritual. Fulbright Scholar (2x) & NEH-Mellon Fellow. Also likes: decentering the canon, digital humanities, open access, Pictured Rocks. lifeofthebuddha.org | bhutan.virginia.edu
@orionklautau.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Japan). Buddhism & Historiography, Shotoku Taishi & Kamakura New Buddhism, the Occult & Japan.
@moroshigeki.bsky.social
Prof. at Hanazono University, Kyoto. Japanese & East Asian Buddhist studies, digital humanities, Shorinji kempo, Kamishichiken-bunko.
@kateahart.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming | PhD Harvard 2020 | drkatehartmann.com for research and teaching, strava for running and mtb
@knagasaki.bsky.social
永崎研宣/ Intl. Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan/ Professor of LIS in Keio University
@zackdavisson.com
2 x Eisner-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Noted Monster Scholar. Faculty at NYU. Sabre fencer. Extra fancy. ULTIMATE X-MEN, CONAN, STAR WARS: VISIONS, MtG, ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI Shigeru Mizuki, Matsumoto Leiji, www.zackdavisson.com
@kurtishanlon.bsky.social
A lecturer in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Yale University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Designated departmental baker (he/him) Signal: kurtishanlon.33
@hiromunagahara.bsky.social
MIT historian of Modern Japan MIT教員・近代日本史 https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/ Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles City-walker and photo-taker
@mrjeffu.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. I research Japan's Politics/Nationalist Activism/History Disputes/Pop Culture. Shares/Likes ≠ endorsements. https://linktr.ee/jeffreyjhall
@ata225.bsky.social
Professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky. Book on motherhood and peace activism in Cold War Japan forthcoming in February 2025
@christinalaffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
@davidleheny.bsky.social
Political scientist at GSAPS, Waseda University. Formerly UW-Madison, Princeton, U.S. Department of State, Stop & Shop. Author of Empire of Hope; The Rules of Play; Think Global, Fear Local (all Cornell UP). Coeditor of Stanford Studies in Asian Security.
@mpitelka.bsky.social
Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
@colleenlaird.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
@jolyonbt.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Faking Liberties (2019), Drawing on Tradition (2012); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025). Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17249. Web: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
@imorianderson.bsky.social
Sometimes scholar of Japanese Christianity and empire, sometimes curator of Japanese American stuff. I also knit and sew. And travel as often as possible. Also cat mom to Imogen the orange.
@baffellierica.bsky.social
Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
@becedo.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Occidental College. Cultural historian of 19th ce Japan. Podcaster on New Books Network. I read kuzushiji and crochet. 日本語ペラペラ
@mbourdaghs.bsky.social
Scholar and translator, modern Japanese literature and culture; I also write fiction, music criticism, and sundry other things. Plus the occasional sumo and baseball post. Faculty at University of Chicago. www.bourdaghs.com
@toranosukev.bsky.social
Historian of Japanese & Luchuan (Ryukyuan) arts and culture. Person. Personal, not professional, account. I travel from time to time. They/he. Based in Kyoto.
@astanley711.bsky.social
Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.