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MORRIS Jon Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language（Graduate School of Foreign Languages English Linguistics） Associate Professor

■ Present specialized field

History of Thought, Religious Studies (Key Word：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	Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Letters
3.	2008/04～2010/03	Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Letters〔Master degree program〕 Completed
4.	2010/04～2015/03	Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Letters〔Doctoral course〕 Completed

■ Business career

1.	2014/04～2015/03	Shokei Gakuin University
2.	2014/04～2015/03	Tohoku Gakuin University
3.	2015/04～2020/03	Komazawa Women's University Lecturer
4.	2018/04～	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
5.	2020/04～2022/03	Komazawa Women's University Associate Professor
6.	2022/04～	Daito Bunka University Associate Professor
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■ Belonging society

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
6.	2009/07～	European Association for Japanese Studies
7.	2011/07～	The Association for Indology and Study of Religion
8.	2018/01～	Nippon Buddhist Research Association
9.	2018/12～	The Japan Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
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■ Books and Papers

1.	Book	Sokushinbutsu and the Characteristic Features of Japanese Buddhism (Collaboration) 2020/07
2.	Book	The Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia, Eating of Wood (Collaboration) 2019/03
3.	Book	Instructions for the Cook by Zen Master Dogen (Collaboration) 2017/11
4.	Book	Introduction of Japanese Society (Single) 2016/04
5.	Book	Kiso Zemi III (Collaboration) 2015/12
6.	Book	Kiso Zemi II (Collaboration) 2015/12
7.	Book	Kiso Zemi I (Collaboration) 2015/12
8.	Book	The Pelican History of Japanese Thought 5: Approaches (Collaboration) 2015/12
9.	Book	Vijjavimutti, Punna and Systematic Soteriology in Early Buddhism (Collaboration) 2013/12
10.	Paper	Fostering Autonomous Learners: A Survey of Learning Strategies used in the English Workshop (Collaboration) 2019/12
11.	Paper	Sokushinbutsu and the Characteristic Features of Japanese Buddhism (Single) 2019/08
12.	Paper	Translating Instructions for the Cook by Zen Master Dogen (Single) 2019/03
13.	Paper	Planning Task-Based Classes - Developing an Introduction to English Communication - (Collaboration) 2017/12
14.	Paper	The Legenda aurea Life of Mary Magdalene and the Popularization of Salvation Doctrines (Single) 2017/12
15.	Paper	A Form Critical Study of the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai (Single) 2015/12
16.	Paper	The Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai and Tales of the Immortals (Single) 2014/03
17.	Paper	The Intellectual Historical Background of the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai (Single) 2013/10
18.	Paper	On the Intellectual History of the Corpora Incorrupta (Single) 2013/04
19.	Paper	Issues in Constructivism and Comparative Research - from a Religious Studies Perspective (Single) 2011/04
20.	Other	Book Review: Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace, by Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 (Single) 2021/03
21.	Other	Understandings of Sokushinbutsu among Late Edo Period Literati: Focusing on "The Destiny that Spanned Two Lifetimes" in 'Tales of the Spring Rain' (Single) 2019/08
22.	Other	Planning Task-Based Classes: Developing an 'Introduction to English Communication' (Collaboration) 2019/03
23.	Other	A Comparative Perspective on the Social Role of the Sokushinbutsu (Single) 2018/09
24.	Other	Book Review: David Quinter 'From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Manjusri Cult in Medieval Japan' (Single) 2018/04
25.	Other	Christmas and British Culture (Single) 2018/03
26.	Other	'Special Issue: Gender and Constitutional Citizenship' Workshop Overview (Single) 2012/03
27.	Other	<Book Review> Karen M. Gerhart 'The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan' (Single) 2012/03
28.	Other	Philosophy, Theory and Case Studies in Buddhist Materiality (Single) 2012/02
29.	Other	My Experience of Studying Japanese Religions in Japan (Single) 2010/10
30.	Other	Incorruptible Flesh: Mummification and the Veneration of Saints (Single) 2010/03
31.	Other	Ido Keiko "A Note on the Cover" (Single) 2020/03
32.	Paper	Komine Kazuaki "Buddhist Narrative Literature in Japan" (Single) 2015/10
33.	Paper	Sueki Fumihiko "Philosophical Literature: Japan" (Single) 2015/10
34.	Paper	Koizumi Yoshiyuki "In Eventful Times: Concerning Capitalism, Electric Power and Well-intentioned Nationalism" (Single) 2014/12
35.	Paper	Tajima Masaki "No Beginning, No End" (Single) 2014/12
36.	Paper	Hayashi Makoto "Religious Studies and Religiously Affiliated Universities" (Single) 2014/04
37.	Paper	Yanagihara Toshiaki "Onmyodo in the Muromachi Period" (Single) 2013/05
38.	Paper	Iida Takafumi "The Full Gospel Church and Korean Shamanism in Japan-Resident Korean Society: Shamanism as a Universal Foundational Religion" (Single) 2013/04
39.	Paper	Tanigawa Yutaka "No separation, No clashes: An Aspect of Buddhism and Education in the Meiji Period" (Single) 2011/04
40.	Paper	Hikino Kyosuke ""Honen" and "Shinran" in Early Modern Jodo Shinshu" (Single) 2011/04
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2023/11/24	Interpreting the Sokushinbutsu in Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha (17th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS))
2.	2022/07/02	The Social and Institutional Roles of Mokujiki as Portrayed in the Mokujiki Yoa Shonin Eden (ASCJ Conference 2022)
3.	2021/11/24	Narrative Representations of Sokushinbutsu
4.	2021/11/14	Redescribing medieval cosmology: a comparative study of Japanese and Western European hagiography
5.	2021/08/25	Mokujiki Institutions and Affiliations in Pre-Modern Japan
6.	2021/07/12	Early Modern Mokujiki Practice: Travel, Materiality and Modernization
7.	2021/01/22	Sokushinbutsu, Literature, Popular Culture and Pilgrimage
8.	2020/03/08	Planning Task-Based Classes: Developing an Introduction to English Communication
9.	2019/08/13	Understandings of Sokushinbutsu among Late Edo Period Literati: Focusing on "The Destiny that Spanned Two Lifetimes" in 'Tales of the Spring Rain'
10.	2019/03/10	Planning Task-Based Classes: Developing an 'Introduction to English Communication'
11.	2018/09/15	A Comparative Perspective on the Social Role of the Sokushinbutsu
12.	2018/09/05	Sokushinbutsu and the Characteristic Features of Japanese Buddhism
13.	2018/07/26	On the English Translation of the 'Instructions for the Cook'
14.	2017/09/16	The Legenda aurea Life of Mary Magdalene and 13th Century Salvation Doctrines
15.	2016/10/30	The Legenda aurea and the Popularization of Theological Doctrine
16.	2016/09/24	Toward a Social and Intellectual History of Mokujiki
17.	2016/09/10	Mokujiki: A Study
18.	2016/01/29	Researching Sokushinbutsu and the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai
19.	2015/06/18	Western Research on Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and Japanese Buddhist Culture: Focussing on the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai
20.	2013/05/30	The Places of the Dead in the Legenda aurea
21.	2012/11/24	Reconsidering the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai
22.	2012/09/09	An Intellectual Historical Study of the Corpora incorrupta
23.	2012/06/24	On Kochi Hoin
24.	2012/06/02	Rethinking Social Bonds: Mummies and the Power of Religion
25.	2012/02/18	Philosophy, Theory and Case Studies in Buddhist Materiality
26.	2011/09/04	The 'Kochi Hoin Odenki' and Sokushinbutsu Research
27.	2011/07/14	Between Life and Death in Medieval Japan and Europe
28.	2010/12/02	The Development of the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai
29.	2010/08/19	Pure Land Thought and the Legend of the Eternal Meditation of Kukai
30.	2009/04/25	Pure Land Thought and the Mummification of Holy Men
31.	2005/03/12	Living Buddhas (Joint Religious Studies Conference)
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■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	2021/12	The Diversity of Japanese Food Culture-Focussing on Mokujiki
2.	2021/12	The Possibilities of Comparative Research

■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

1.	2014/04～2017/03	Developments of Kami Worship-Buddhist Combinatory Thought in Early Modern Japan
2.	2018/04～2023/03	International Cooperative Research: Towards an Reconsideration of the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan

■ Department laboratory expense researcher number

50774163