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Michael Como
Assistant Professor
Columbia University |
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Biography
Michael Como, Assistant Professor (B.A., Harvard, 1985; Ph.D., Stanford, 2000), is Tōshū Fukami Professor of Shinto Studies. His recent research has focused on the religious history of the Japanese islands from the Asuka through the early Heian periods. His publications include several articles on the ritual and political consequences of the introduction of literacy, sericulture and horse-culture from the Asian sub-continent in Japan. He is also the author of Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual and Violence in the Formation of Japanese Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2008) and "Weaving and Binding: Female Shamans and Immigrant Gods in Nara Japan" (forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press). He is currently working on a new manuscript tentatively entitled “Resonant Bodies: Disease and Astrology in the Heian Cultic Revolution.
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