Full Name Tomoko Masuzawa | Spouse Donald S. Lopez Jr. Region Western philosophy | |
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Residence United States, Michigan Books The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Main interests Religious studies, Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis |
Tomoko masuzawa on the birth of the secular university
Tomoko Masuzawa is Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. In 1979, She received her MA in Religious Studies at Yale University. Masuzawa received her PhD in Religious Studies from University of California Santa Barbara in 1985. European intellectual history (19th century), discourses on religion, history of religion, and psychoanalysis are Masuzawa’s fields of study. Some of her works are:
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- Tomoko masuzawa on the birth of the secular university
- Tomoko masuzawa umichigan trifurcating abraham
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In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion (1993)
"Culture" in Mark C. Taylor (ed.), Critical Terms for Religious Studies (1998)
"Origin" in Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon (eds.), Guide to the Study of Religion (1999)
"From Empire to Utopia: Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon" in Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique (1999)
The Invention of World Religions or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (2005)
Tomoko masuzawa umichigan trifurcating abraham
