New book by Caleb Carter! -- maybe there's some Aleister Crowley in there too? 笑

Job alert! We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

After the LDP victory in the last elections, it might be worth asking where some of their historical ideas about Japan's "constitutional tradition" come from. My new article traces how Shōtoku Taishi (574-622) was transformed in the 20th century into a secular architect of constitutional governance.

余ノ友人オリオン・クラウタウ先生、近代日本ニ於ケル鎌倉仏教ヲ「宗教改革」トシテ解釈スルヿニ就キ、迚モ興味深キ大論文ヲ公ニセリ。是数篇ヨリ成ル論考ノ端緒ニ過ギズ、今後ノ続編ヲ待望スベシト。嗚呼！実ニ慶賀ノ至リ奉存候！ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My friend Orion Klautau, the Lord of Prince Shōtoku Reception Studies, just published this utterly fascinating article in Japan Forum. For those interested in the history of the Meiji Constitution, this is a must!😍 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New open-access article: "From Holy Prince to Legal Ancestor: Shōtoku in Japan’s Modern Constitutional Imagination" doi.org/10.1080/0955...

New open-access article: "Kamakura Buddhism as Japanese Reformation: Hara Katsurō's Modern Historiographical Project." doi.org/10.1080/0048...