Tomoko Masuzawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 260383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomoko Masuzawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Masuzawa |
| SIGNATURE | MASUZAWA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 427 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Pietz doing history
On Pietz doing history." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Theology, the Fairy Queen
Scholars of religion today understand that the scientific basis of religious studies lies in the fact that religion is a multifarious historical phenomenon accessible through empirical research, and that this study therefore differs fundamentally from theology premised on the acceptance of supernaturally revealed truths and faith traditions. Meanwhile, it has been broadly believed that theology once occupied the preeminent position in the medieva…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
What Do the Critics Want?—A Brief Reflection on the Difference between a Disciplinary History and a Discourse Analysis
The following essay is intended to respond to my critics and their criticisms of The Invention of World Religions . By providing an account of book's pre-history, I hope to provide a framework for understanding why this particular project appealed to me in first place. More to point, however, I attempt to justify my sense that many of my critics have missed point of Invention . As I originally imagined project, central question was not primarily …
The Invention of World Religions
Tomoko Masuzawa's "The Invention of World Religions" challenges the conventional narrative of the emergence of the category "world religions" as a neutral and inclusive scholarly framework. She argues that this category, far from being a product of objective academic inquiry, was deeply shaped by European colonial and imperial power dynamics. The book traces the historical development of the concept from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth…
Our Master's Voice
Although recognized as a nineteenth-century champion of comparative methods and leading figure in the founding of the science of religion, F. Max Müller has been paid surprisingly little attention since his death a century ago. In 2002, a substantial scholarly biography by Lourens P. van den Bosch and an anthology of Müller's representative works edited by Jon Stone were published. Through a review of these two publications, this article first re…
Reflections on the Charmed Circle
Journal Article Reflections on the Charmed Circle Get access Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 429–436, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/69.2.429 Published: 01 June 2001
The production of ‘religion’ and the task of the scholar
(2000). The production of ‘religion’ and the task of the scholar: Russell McCutcheon among the Smiths. Culture and Religion: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 123-130
Troubles with Materiality
The theological period of humanity could begin no otherwise than by a complete and usually very durable state of pure Fetichism [sic], which allowed free exercise to that tendency of our nature by which Man conceives of all external bodies as animated by a life analogous to his own, with differences of mere intensity.Auguste Comte, Cours (1830Ð1842
From Empire to Utopia
Research Article| May 01 1999 From Empire to Utopia: The Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (2): 541–572. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-541 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tomoko Masuzawa; From Empire to Utopia: The Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon. positions 1 Ma…
In Nature's Trail
Reading in the wake
Had the opinions of the critics and of the author collided over a book, then diving into the wreck and delving ever more deeply into the points of disagreement might offer an option at once romantically inviting and intel lectually responsible, if also a little indulgent for the author As luck would have it, such is not the case here, and my response accordingly will be in terms of the positions that various parties occupy and the relations (or n…
In Search of Dreamtime
In this work of discourse analysis, Tomoko Masuzawa observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Today's historians of religion maintain that they have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. By renouncing the desire for origins that they claim religious peoples embrace, hist…
Behind the Law
Journal Article Behind the Law: Staging of Guilt in Kafka via Dürrenmatt Get access Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–3225. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LX, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 35–55, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel…
Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism
Original Lost
The Sacred Difference in the Elementary Forms
Research Article| July 01 1988 The Sacred Difference in the Elementary Forms: On Durkheim's Last Quest Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 23: 25–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928565 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
Tracing the Figure of Redemption Walter Benjamin's Physiognomy of Modernity
Only recently has it come to seem likely that Benjamin will be given at long last his proper place as a major literary theorist of the century.* Philosophers and theorists of divergent lineages and varying temperaments now seem to have found a curious meeting place in the literary estate of Benjamin. The exact nature of his legacy and the actual territory of Benjamin scholarship, however, are not easily defined, nor is the landscape necessarily p…
The Invention of World Religions
Tomoko Masuzawa's "The Invention of World Religions" challenges the conventional narrative of the emergence of the category "world religions" as a neutral and inclusive scholarly framework. She argues that this category, far from being a product of objective academic inquiry, was deeply shaped by European colonial and imperial power dynamics. The book traces the historical development of the concept from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth…
Troubles with Materiality
The theological period of humanity could begin no otherwise than by a complete and usually very durable state of pure Fetichism [sic], which allowed free exercise to that tendency of our nature by which Man conceives of all external bodies as animated by a life analogous to his own, with differences of mere intensity.Auguste Comte, Cours (1830Ð1842
The Sacred Difference in the Elementary Forms
Research Article| July 01 1988 The Sacred Difference in the Elementary Forms: On Durkheim's Last Quest Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 23: 25–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928565 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
Theology, the Fairy Queen
Scholars of religion today understand that the scientific basis of religious studies lies in the fact that religion is a multifarious historical phenomenon accessible through empirical research, and that this study therefore differs fundamentally from theology premised on the acceptance of supernaturally revealed truths and faith traditions. Meanwhile, it has been broadly believed that theology once occupied the preeminent position in the medieva…
What Do the Critics Want?—A Brief Reflection on the Difference between a Disciplinary History and a Discourse Analysis
The following essay is intended to respond to my critics and their criticisms of The Invention of World Religions . By providing an account of book's pre-history, I hope to provide a framework for understanding why this particular project appealed to me in first place. More to point, however, I attempt to justify my sense that many of my critics have missed point of Invention . As I originally imagined project, central question was not primarily …
The production of ‘religion’ and the task of the scholar
(2000). The production of ‘religion’ and the task of the scholar: Russell McCutcheon among the Smiths. Culture and Religion: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 123-130
Our Master's Voice
Although recognized as a nineteenth-century champion of comparative methods and leading figure in the founding of the science of religion, F. Max Müller has been paid surprisingly little attention since his death a century ago. In 2002, a substantial scholarly biography by Lourens P. van den Bosch and an anthology of Müller's representative works edited by Jon Stone were published. Through a review of these two publications, this article first re…
In Nature's Trail
Tracing the Figure of Redemption Walter Benjamin's Physiognomy of Modernity
Only recently has it come to seem likely that Benjamin will be given at long last his proper place as a major literary theorist of the century.* Philosophers and theorists of divergent lineages and varying temperaments now seem to have found a curious meeting place in the literary estate of Benjamin. The exact nature of his legacy and the actual territory of Benjamin scholarship, however, are not easily defined, nor is the landscape necessarily p…
The Sacred Difference in the Elementary Forms
Research Article| July 01 1988 The Sacred Difference in the Elementary Forms: On Durkheim's Last Quest Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1988) 23: 25–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928565 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
Original Lost
Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism
Behind the Law
Journal Article Behind the Law: Staging of Guilt in Kafka via Dürrenmatt Get access Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–3225. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LX, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 35–55, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel…
In Search of Dreamtime
In this work of discourse analysis, Tomoko Masuzawa observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Today's historians of religion maintain that they have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. By renouncing the desire for origins that they claim religious peoples embrace, hist…
Reading in the wake
Had the opinions of the critics and of the author collided over a book, then diving into the wreck and delving ever more deeply into the points of disagreement might offer an option at once romantically inviting and intel lectually responsible, if also a little indulgent for the author As luck would have it, such is not the case here, and my response accordingly will be in terms of the positions that various parties occupy and the relations (or n…
In Nature's Trail
From Empire to Utopia
Research Article| May 01 1999 From Empire to Utopia: The Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (2): 541–572. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-541 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tomoko Masuzawa; From Empire to Utopia: The Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon. positions 1 Ma…
The production of ‘religion’ and the task of the scholar
(2000). The production of ‘religion’ and the task of the scholar: Russell McCutcheon among the Smiths. Culture and Religion: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 123-130
Troubles with Materiality
The theological period of humanity could begin no otherwise than by a complete and usually very durable state of pure Fetichism [sic], which allowed free exercise to that tendency of our nature by which Man conceives of all external bodies as animated by a life analogous to his own, with differences of mere intensity.Auguste Comte, Cours (1830Ð1842
Reflections on the Charmed Circle
Journal Article Reflections on the Charmed Circle Get access Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa Tomoko Masuzawa is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 429–436, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/69.2.429 Published: 01 June 2001
Our Master's Voice
Although recognized as a nineteenth-century champion of comparative methods and leading figure in the founding of the science of religion, F. Max Müller has been paid surprisingly little attention since his death a century ago. In 2002, a substantial scholarly biography by Lourens P. van den Bosch and an anthology of Müller's representative works edited by Jon Stone were published. Through a review of these two publications, this article first re…
The Invention of World Religions
Tomoko Masuzawa's "The Invention of World Religions" challenges the conventional narrative of the emergence of the category "world religions" as a neutral and inclusive scholarly framework. She argues that this category, far from being a product of objective academic inquiry, was deeply shaped by European colonial and imperial power dynamics. The book traces the historical development of the concept from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth…
What Do the Critics Want?—A Brief Reflection on the Difference between a Disciplinary History and a Discourse Analysis
The following essay is intended to respond to my critics and their criticisms of The Invention of World Religions . By providing an account of book's pre-history, I hope to provide a framework for understanding why this particular project appealed to me in first place. More to point, however, I attempt to justify my sense that many of my critics have missed point of Invention . As I originally imagined project, central question was not primarily …
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Theology, the Fairy Queen
Scholars of religion today understand that the scientific basis of religious studies lies in the fact that religion is a multifarious historical phenomenon accessible through empirical research, and that this study therefore differs fundamentally from theology premised on the acceptance of supernaturally revealed truths and faith traditions. Meanwhile, it has been broadly believed that theology once occupied the preeminent position in the medieva…
On Pietz doing history
On Pietz doing history." History of European Ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
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