Timothy Benedict
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
@borderlander62.bsky.social
Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.
@resplendentluck.bsky.social
Japanese law, society, politics, then add gender and stir. Librarian, Okinawa Collection and Japan Resource Center, George Washington University. Views are my own, but who’s paying attention?
@kathryntanaka.bsky.social
Japanese Literature/ sometimes rough translations Hansen's disease, medicine & culture, sometimes supernatural
@kimberly-hassel.bsky.social
Dominican New Yorker. Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Duke University. Anthropologist and ethnographer specializing in digital sociality, contemporary Japan, and Afro-Japanese encounters. Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, and IRT alumna
@danamirsalis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
@knagasaki.bsky.social
永崎研宣/ Intl. Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan/ Professor of LIS in Keio University
@nlheller.bsky.social
Scholar of Chinese religion (mainly Buddhism) and within that scope especially interested in literature and trees at present
@carostarkey.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religion and Society, University of Leeds. Research on religion in Britain, especially Buddhism and Spiritualism🪷 Director of Liberal Arts at Leeds ❤️ Loves ghosts and Luton Town Football Club.
@dhenreckson.bsky.social
Director/professor at Whitworth University | author at Cambridge and Baker Academic (contracted) | PhD at Princeton | Chicago partisan | latter-day scholastic
@justinbstein.bsky.social
Scholar of transnational Japanese religion / spiritual practice at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC, Canada) | Author of Alternate Currents: Reiki's Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific
@johnggrisafi.bsky.social
PhD in Religious Studies at Yale University | Korean religions, Korean Studies, Asian religions, religion & modernity, discursive study & epistemology of religion, politics of religion, religion & space/place, historiography & memory of religion
@anomav.bsky.social
Correspondent NOS & NRC, senior (Japan) researcher Leiden Asia Centre. In Tokyo.
@aikerots.bsky.social
Professor of East Asian Religions, University of Oslo. Rituals, environment, heritage. Books: Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan (2017); Sacred Heritage in Japan (2020); Water Powers (forthcoming). At home in 🇳🇴🇻🇳🇯🇵🇳🇱🇪🇺. Solidarity with 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🏳️🌈.
@barbarianniche.bsky.social
Archaeologist & historian of Japan in Eurasia at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. Fellow Royal Historical Society. Author 'Europe and the End of Medieval Japan' (https://tinyurl.com/2cmcwmwt)
@prof-proffitt.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, PhD Buddhist Studies
@hmcgaughey.bsky.social
Philologist of pre-modern Japanese performing arts and teacher of undergrads.
@bambros.bsky.social
Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Animals and religion, gender and sexuality studies, place and space.
@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
@jdrian.bsky.social
Japanese reference librarian. Scholar of premodern Japanese religions and literature. Dabbles in DH. This account reflects my private views and does not represent the views of my employer.
@susandine.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.
@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.
@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
@paolajp.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow of Japanese Studies @The University of Milan. Interested in contemporary Japanese religions & spirituality, gender and disaster studies.
@nccjapaninfo.bsky.social
Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻 http://nccjapan.org/
@orionklautau.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Japan). Buddhism & Historiography, Shotoku Taishi & Kamakura New Buddhism, the Occult & Japan.
@matthew-hayes.bsky.social
Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies at Duke University. Researcher in Japanese Buddhist Studies. he/him
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
@dnewheiser.bsky.social
teaches @ FSU Religion / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams on democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4 https://dnewheiser.net/
@moroshigeki.bsky.social
Prof. at Hanazono University, Kyoto. Japanese & East Asian Buddhist studies, digital humanities, Shorinji kempo, Kamishichiken-bunko.
@gabrielevogt.bsky.social
Professor (Chair) in Japanese Studies at LMU Munich ➡️ studies: politics & society | migration & labor market | demography & democracy | cultures of vigilance (SFB 1369) | Okinawa
@tobiasharris.bsky.social
Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner; RHP + IF ⚾ Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com. Business: www.japanforesight.com
@apjjf.bsky.social
In-depth critical analysis of the forces that shape the Asia-Pacific and the world. Edited by Tristan R. Grunow (Nagoya University) and Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University). Find us at: https://apjjf.org/.
@unseenjapan.com
The Japan you don't learn about in anime. https://unseenjapan.start.page
@astanley711.bsky.social
Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
@marijuanamasao.bsky.social
New bong, who dis High on modernism. My tokes used to do numbers. I still do.
@cphjournal.bsky.social
The Journal of Critical Public Health (JCPH) is devoted to disseminating critically engaged research in public health, health promotion & related fields. Diamond Open Access. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/
@cmcclean.bsky.social
📚 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale 🇯🇵 Japanese Politics & Public Policy 👦🏻👨🏻👴🏻 Politics of Age & Aging
@igaitanidis.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Chiba University (Japan); Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan (2022); Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-ed., 2024); Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (co-ed., 2025) https://researchmap.jp/gaitanidis
@gillianfrank.bsky.social
Assistant prof of history @ Trinity College Dublin. Co-host of Sexing History, a podcast about how the history of sexuality shapes our present. Writing a book about liberal religion & abortion before Roe v Wade (Forthcoming UNC Press). www.gillianfrank.com
@khirata.bsky.social
Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国（及び日ソ・露）近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
@uncpress.bsky.social
The University of North Carolina Press 📖 First University Press in the South 📚 Publishing distinguished books and journals for academics, students, and general readers for over a century
@upennrels.bsky.social
The Religious Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Find faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and current events here: https://rels.sas.upenn.edu
@jjrs-nirc.bsky.social
The official account of the JJRS and NIRC. Follow for publications and event announcements. https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp
@protass.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
@brianruppert.bsky.social
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).
@nwillems.bsky.social
Teaches and researches Japanese History. Also into jazz, poetry, and translation. Belgian roots. Author of "Ishikawa Sanshirō's Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan."
@iamalda.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University / writing about religion, ethics, ecology / asking you to #JoinYourUnion / book: Thoreau's Religion, http://bit.ly/3Jtbkyg