Tomoko Masuzawa

Name: Tomoko Masuzawa

Title(s):

• Professor
• Professor

Contact Information: 734.763.2351 , masuzawa@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CJS

Department Affiliation(s):

• History
• Comparative Literature

Education Background: Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985 M.A., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1979 B.A., Humanities/Philosophy, International Christian University, 1975

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• East Asian Studies

Related Countries:

• Japan

Research/Teaching Specialization: History of the science of religion in Japan, discourse of universality, the formation of "Judeo-Christian" identity, and19th century transformation of the idea of religion.

Publications:

• Author’s Response-Review Symposium on The Invention of World Religions. 2006.
• The Value of Theory without Method-Deconstituting Concepts, Inventing Disciplines. forthcoming 2006.
• Comparison and Hegemony. forthcoming 2006.
• The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. 2005. (Authored Book)
• In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion. 1993. (Authored Book)
• Our Master’s Voice: Friedrich Max Müller after a Hundred Years of Solitude. 2003.
• Troubles with Materiality: the Ghost of Fetishism in the Nineteenth Century. April 2000.
• Origin. 1999.
• From Empire to Utopia: Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon. Fall 1999.
• Culture. 1998.