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| Michael Como
Room 307
80 Claremont
Monday and Wednesday 9:00-10:00
Phone
university: 212-851-4144
Email
mc2575@columbia.edu |
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Michael Como
Toshu Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Columbia University |
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Biography
B.A., Harvard, 1985; Ph.D., Stanford, 2000. Michael Como's recent research has focused on the religious history of the Japanese islands from the Asuka through the early Heian periods. He is the author of several articles on the ritual and political consequences of the introduction of literacy, sericulture and horse-culture from the Asian sub-continent into ancient Japan. His major publications include Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual and Violence in the Formation of Japanese Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2008), Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2009) and Medieval Shintō, a special edition of the Cahiers d’Êxtreme Asie that he co-edited with Bernard Faure and Iyanaga Nobumi. He is currently working on a new monograph tentatively entitled “Resonant Bodies: Disease and Astrology in the Heian Cultic Revolution."
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