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| Michael Como
Room 307
80 Claremont
Thu 1-2 pm Fri 10-12noon
Phone
university: 212-851-4144
Email
mc2575@columbia.edu |
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Michael Como
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Columbia University |
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Biography
Michael Como, Associate 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. 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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