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Tomoko Masuzawa

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Full Name
  
Tomoko Masuzawa

Academic employer
  
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

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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:

Contents

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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)

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Tomoko Masuzawa The Invention of World Religions Or How European Universalism Was

References

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