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Lecturer
Edward Drott received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of
Pennsylvania in 2005, specializing in medieval Japanese Buddhism. His research
examines the role of the body in Japanese religion and religion's role in
structuring the experience of the body. He is particularly interested in the
nexus of religious and medical knowledge in pre-modern Japan.
In 2002 he was awarded a fellowship by the Japanese Ministry of Education
allowing him to conduct research at Kyoto University for eighteen months. In
2004 and 2005, he was an instructor for the Antioch Buddhist Studies program in
Kyoto. He spent the 2006-2007 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard
University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. He is currently working
on a manuscript based on his dissertation, which explores how religious
ideology and practice helped shape the experience of aging in medieval
Japan.
Courses and Programs
2008 Spring
- 49 (11) Topics in East Asian Religions: The Body in Japanese
Religion
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