Faculty of Liberal Arts
Associate Professor
Religion
B.A., Beloit College
M.A., Syracuse University
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: muraka-t[at]sophia.ac.jp
Tel: 03-3238-4049
Office: 10-655
My main interest in the study of religion has been its methods and theories and, to this extent, I have engaged in some researches in the history of the discipline, examining notions such as primitivism, fetishism, colonialism and modernity. Through these methodological inquiries, I have come to recognize the problem of materiality as a locus for a critical reflection as well as a creative exploration in the study of religion. Recently I have been conducting researches in religious violence, culture of debt and Pentecostalism, all of which, in their own ways, address the problem of materiality.
Book chapters
・“Asking the Question of the Origin of Religion in the Age of Globalization,” in Religion and Global Culture: New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long, Jennifer Reid, ed. (Lexington Books, 2003) pp. 7-25.
・「宗教としてのフェティシズム－近代「宗教」概念理解への一つのアプローチ」田中雅一編『フェティシズム論の系譜と展望』京都大学学術出版会、２００９年、41－63頁
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Graduate Program in Global Studies