Faculty Information - MORRIS Jon | Daito Bunka University

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MORRIS Jon

Department Daito Bunka University Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language

Daito Bunka University Graduate School Graduate School of Foreign Languages English Linguistics

Job Associate Professor

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Reseacher number
50774163

Present specialized field
History of Thought, Religious Studies keyword(Comparative Thought, Comparative Religious Studies, Buddhist Studies)

Main Subject
Area and Culture Studies 8 A, Seminar III A

Academic background
1.	1998/06～2001/06	University of Bristol Graduated
2.	2006/04～2008/03	Graduate School, Division of Letters Tohoku University
3.	2008/04～2010/03	Master Graduate School, Division of Letters Tohoku University Finished
4.	2010/04～2015/03	Doctorial Graduate School, Division of Letters Tohoku University Finished

Business career
1.	2014/04 ～ 2015/03	Shokei Gakuin University
2.	2014/04 ～ 2015/03	Tohoku Gakuin University
3.	2015/04 ～ 2020/03	Lecturer Komazawa Women's University
4.	2018/04 ～	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
5.	2020/04 ～ 2022/03	Associate Professor Komazawa Women's University
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Academic conference
1.	2005/07 ～	U.K. Association of Buddhist Studies
2.	2006/04 ～	Society for Japanese Intellectual History Research
3.	2008/04 ～	Association for Japanese Intellectual History
4.	2008/04 ～	Japanese Association for Religious Studies
5.	2008/07 ～	Association for Asian Studies
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Books and Papers
1.	Books	Sokushinbutsu and the Characteristic Features of Japanese Buddhism,pp.378-403 (Co-authored) 2020/07
2.	Books	The Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia, Eating of Wood,pp.109-126 (Co-authored) 2019/03
3.	Books	Instructions for the Cook by Zen Master Dogen,pp.1-186 (Co-authored) 2017/11
4.	Books	Introduction of Japanese Society,pp.1-119 (Sole-authored) 2016/04
5.	Books	Kiso Zemi III,pp.1-102 (Co-authored) 2015/12
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/11/30	Japan’s Mummies: The Sokushinbutsu in Post-War Occulture (The East Asian Network for the Academic Study of Esotericism (EANASE) 2nd Annual Conference)
2.	2024/07/29	Ise Pilgrimage and the Cultural History of Religious Itineracy in Early Modern Japan (The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS))
3.	2023/11/24	Interpreting the Sokushinbutsu in Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha (17th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS))
4.	2022/07/02	The Social and Institutional Roles of Mokujiki as Portrayed in the Mokujiki Yoa Shonin Eden (ASCJ Conference 2022)
5.	2021/11/24	Narrative Representations of Sokushinbutsu
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Lecturer and lecture
1.	2021/12/21	The Diversity of Japanese Food Culture-Focussing on Mokujiki
2.	2021/12/21	The Possibilities of Comparative Research

Research topic, funded research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
1.	2014/04 ～ 2017/03	Developments of Kami Worship-Buddhist Combinatory Thought in Early Modern Japan International Joint Research
2.	2018/04 ～ 2023/03	International Cooperative Research: Towards an Reconsideration of the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan International Joint Research