Thursday, December 13, 2012

Fw: AWOL - The Ancient World Online

 
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New Open Access Journal: Asfar

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:47 AM PST

Asfar
http://www.asfar.org.uk/images/Asfar-logo.png
Asfar is a new dynamic initiative designed to inspire, provide a platform and offer a support network to young people, students and graduates specialising in and interested by the Middle East.

Through a quarterly e-journal, News updates, and a Travelers Network, Asfar will work with the next generation of the Middle East's writers, thinkers and photographers to exhibit their abilities to a wide audience including academia, diplomatic and general readership.
Focusing on the history, society, culture, development and politics of the Middle East, the e-journal will introduce new ideas, innovative articles and magnificent images of the Middle East.

Remaining politically neutral and non-partisan, Asfar articles will cover a full range of topics: from geography to art, languages to society and from history to cookery. Asfar will review the past and consider the Middle East's future from a regional, state and local perspective.

Asfar is unique project aimed at promoting the study of the region, the curiosity and personal development of individuals fascinated by the Middle East and ensuring the sustained awareness of an area on the cross roads of history.

The Sir Arthur Evans Archive

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:24 AM PST

The Sir Arthur Evans Archive
http://sirarthurevans.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/images/Banner4.jpg 
This website is based on the first overview catalogue of the Sir Arthur Evans Archive prepared by Dr Yannis Galanakis in March 2012. This archive is one of the most important resources of the Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum.  

Domesticating Mountains in Middle Bronze Age Crete

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:16 AM PST

Beckmann, Sabine: Domesticating Mountains in Middle Bronze Age Crete: Minoan Agricultural Landscaping in the Agios Nikolaos Region. PhD Thesis 2012 - Vol. I - II - Appendices
"Over 300 dwelling sites in the mountains of north-east Crete (Agios Nikolaos), datable (by surface pottery and lithics) mainly to the Middle Bronze Age (the Minoan Protopalatial period, ca.2000-1650 BCE) were discovered and studied. 
Sites were isolated but not more than 300 m (average) apart from each other and interconnected with a network of paths. Most ruin foundations were built with massive block masonry (named "oncolithic" in this study), while long enclosure-walls claimed areas of several thousand square meters (up to 6 hectares) for each habitation, including arable and rocky land. The setting and massive construction of these enclosures, (originally more than a meter high  and with a total length of ca 150 km), show that they belonged to the sites. These features were mapped with GPS and used for the GIS study of land use and topography.

Archaeologists in the past believed a few of the then known sites (ca. 5, while enclosures and connecting paths were unknown) situated on the old roads, to have been defensible forts or watch-towers because of their so-called "monumental" or "Cyclopean" masonry, but this study shows that the massive settlement including landscape opening (landnam) and structuring (covering an area of ca. 30 sqkm min.) must have been used for mixed agriculture/animal husbandry.

The area has been re-used by mixed agriculture (emphasis on pastoral economy) from the second half of the 19th century. Data gained from ethnoarchaeological study are used to corroborate and classify archaeological findings. "
 

The Christianization of the Peloponnese

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:13 AM PST

The Christianization of the Peloponnese
http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/greekbasilicas/images/basilica_acropolis.jpg
The aim of this project is to advance an understanding of the changing processes involved in the Christianization of the Peloponnese with particular reference to the location and socio-political context of churches from the 5th to 7th centuries CE. An intensive topographic and archaeological study has made it possible to present a detailed image database of the Late Antique Churches of the Peloponnese and a clickable map based on GPS data. The results of the analysis of this work, which will be published shortly in three articles, have shown clearly the evidence for phased and largely peaceful Christianization of the Peloponnese with a considered use of memory and tradition at different times, rather than that of a violent transition, as is frequently portrayed in the historical literature.

Fw: H-ASIA: AJISS-Commentary No.167 on Japan's general election by Katsuyuki Yakushiji

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Subject: H-ASIA: AJISS-Commentary No.167 on Japan's general election by
Katsuyuki Yakushiji


> H-ASIA
> December 13, 2012
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.167 on Japan's general election by Katsuyuki Yakushiji
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Japan Institute of International Affairs <e-commentary@jiia.or.jp>
>
> Editor: Akio Watanabe
> Editorial Board: Hideki Asari, Masashi Nishihara, and Taizo Yakushiji
> Online Publisher: Yoshiji Nogami
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.167
> "The Future of Japanese Domestic Politics and Japan's Path Ahead" by
> Katsuyuki Yakushiji
>
> [Prof. Katsuyuki Yakushiji teaches at Toyo University. He is also an
> adjunct fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs.
> The views expressed in this piece are the author's own and should not be
> attributed to The Association of Japanese Institutes of Strategic
> Studies.]
>
> http://www.jiia.or.jp/en/commentary/201212/13-1.html
>
> Several times a year the Japanese Diet holds a party leaders' debate
> modeled on the UK's "Question Time." Each occasion sees the prime minister
> and the leaders of the opposition parties exchanging criticisms amidst
> loud heckling from onlooking MPs. It has become a ritual that does nothing
> but waste time. The party leaders' debate of November 14, however, was
> different. As planned, Shinzo Abe, President of the Liberal Democratic
> Party (LDP), called for an early dissolution of the House of
> Representatives by Prime Minister (and head of the Democratic Party of
> Japan [DPJ]) Yoshihiko Noda. Everyone had expected the prime minister to
> offer some vague justification for postponing the dissolution. Instead,
> Prime Minister Noda proposed reducing the number of seats in the National
> Diet and then bluntly added, "Let?s just cut to the chase. We will
> dissolve the Diet on the 16th."
>
> In an instant the heckling stopped and the committee chamber became
> hushed. Never had a prime minister announced a specific date for
> dissolution in a statement to the Diet. The opposition members were
> naturally flummoxed, as indeed was the ruling party leadership. Abe was
> unable to hide his shock, and his subsequent remarks trailed off into
> meaninglessness.
>
> The Japanese media conduct frequent public opinion polls. The latest poll
> shows support for the Noda administration down to about 20% and that for
> the DPJ in the low teens, less than half that for the LDP. If this holds
> true into the general elections, the DPJ will seemingly suffer a major
> defeat as the LDP reclaims power as the dominant party. No Diet member
> welcomes an election in which he/she is certain of a loss. There was
> overwhelming opposition to dissolution and general elections within the
> DPJ, of course, and Prime Minister Noda had been expected to hold off
> dissolving the Diet until next year.
>
> Turning the opposition parties' demands for an early dissolution against
> them, though, Prime Minister Noda countered by insisting on conditions
> such as a reduction in the number of Diet seats as he announced the
> dissolution. It was colorful turnabout theater. Many of the viewers
> watching the party leaders? debate on television began rethinking their
> assessments of Prime Minister Noda's leadership ability, and some of them
> may even switch their support to the DPJ. This is how effective the
> "bombshell" was.
>
> There are undoubtedly several reasons for the prime minister's
> determination to dissolve the Diet before year's end.
>
> Since becoming prime minister in autumn of last year, Noda has been
> primarily focused on raising the consumption tax. Japan has a cumulative
> debt of approximately 1000 trillion yen, more than twice its GDP. This is
> far greater even that European countries such as Greece and Italy who have
> been thrown into fiscal crisis. Should its profligate public spending
> continue unabated, Japan will ultimately find itself confronting the
> specter of fiscal collapse. An increase in the consumption tax was
> essential to avoid this.
>
> A bill to increase the consumption tax was passed in August. The tax rate
> is to be raised in two stages, from the present 5% to 8% in April 2014 and
> then to 10% in October 2015. This rise is not set in stone but rather
> conditioned on "an upturn in economic conditions." The Japanese economy
> remains sluggish, and additional appropriations for economic stimulus
> measures and smooth implementation of the fiscal 2013 budget will be
> necessary to satisfy this condition. If dissolution is postponed, however,
> resistance from the opposition parties will become fiercer, budget
> deliberations will stall, and ultimately the consumption tax rate may not
> be raised. To ensure trouble-free implementation of economic stimulus
> measures and an increase in the consumption tax, Prime Minister Noda has
> committed to dissolution and general elections in which he faces a strong
> likelihood of losing power.
>
> He also appears set on rebuilding the DPJ. The DPJ secured 300 seats in
> the 2009 general elections to become the ruling party. In reality, though,
> the DPJ is little more than a political party that attracts the critical
> "anti-LDP crowd," and the more seats it has gained, the weaker its party
> unity has become, with numerous intra-party disputes breaking out over
> personnel and policies. Prime Minister Noda is prepared to offer a general
> election campaign pledge on participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
> (TPP) Agreement, a stance that has generated strong opposition within the
> DPJ. In doing so, Noda is apparently seeking to rebuild the DPJ by
> encouraging Diet members locked into old political ways and conservative
> policies to leave the party and bringing in members abiding by the party
> line, even if their overall numbers decline somewhat. While the DPJ?s seat
> count might fall substantially in the next general elections, the party's
> "blunting course " could over the medium to long term garner public
> support and allow the party to grow again and form a new government.
>
> Voting and tallying for the general elections are to take place on
> December 16. It is highly likely that the LDP will become the dominant
> party and return to power. Having lost its majority in the House of
> Councilors, it will probably have to form a coalition with other parties
> to create a stable government even if it does gain a majority in the House
> of Representatives. The New Komeito might be a potent coalition partner,
> but in certain scenarios it could choose to team up in some way with the
> DPJ. The outcome of the elections will determine which parties will join
> up in a coalition.
>
> A new dimension to the upcoming general elections is the large number of
> LDP and DPJ defectors as well as prefectural governors who have created
> new political parties in the run-up to these elections. An all-time high
> of twelve parties have fielded candidates. This upsurge in the number of
> political parties can be attributed to the fact that, over the past few
> years, defectors from the LDP and DPJ have thrown their support behind
> well-known governors or other figures and formed new political parties to
> ensure their own political survival. This has been made possible by an
> electoral system featuring a combination of single-seat constituencies and
> proportional representation. While candidates from minor parties might
> find it nearly impossible to defeat DPJ or LDP rivals in single-seat
> constituencies, they do stand a chance at winning in
> proportional-representation constituencies. Hence, many political parties
> have been created in the hope of scoring victories in
> proportional-representation constituencies. These minor parties are
> running election campaigns focused solely on specific policies popular
> with the public -- opposing consumption tax hikes or advocating a no-nuke
> energy policy, for instance-- and they offer no overarching platform for
> national governance as a whole. In other words, the minor parties
> springing up one after the other display a distinctly "electoral mutual
> aid society" character in seeking to gain seats despite their small size,
> and it seems unlikely that they will win many seats.
>
> It might be hoped that Japanese politics will settle down after the
> general elections and allow the focus to swing from politics to policy,
> but the situation is not so simple. In 2013, there are House of Councilors
> elections scheduled in July, and Diet debates among the various parties
> will no doubt heat up as these elections draw closer. A ready policy
> consensus would only serve to benefit the ruling party, so widespread and
> unproductive dickering is an undeniable possibility. In other words, Japan
> has a political calendar that will make it difficult to avoid introverted
> political wrangling even after the general elections.
>
> 2013 will be an important year for the international community, one in
> which new administrations will take office in certain key countries --
> including the US, China, and South Korea -- and pursue their own foreign
> policies. Wrangling over the rise of China in particular is expected to
> intensify within the international community. As it seeks to secure its
> development as a maritime nation, China will no doubt pursue assertive and
> even aggressive policies not just on its territorial issues with Japan but
> on numerous other political, economic and military matters. The US in
> making its pivot toward Asia will counter China through economic and
> military policy. The US can also be expected to request TPP participation
> and greater security cooperation from Japan.
>
> Whether the Japanese government will be able in 2013 to respond flexibly
> to such developments in the international community is an important
> concern. Japan?s presence in the international community can likely be
> restored if an effectively functioning coalition government can actively
> address domestic and foreign policy issues. On the other hand, if a new
> administration is swayed by domestic politics because of an unstable base,
> it will not have much leeway to devote effort to foreign affairs. In this
> sense, the December general elections are of significance for both Japan
> and for the peace and stability of Northeast Asia.
>
>
> ****************
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> Association of Japanese Institutes of Strategic Studies (AJISS) consisting
> of three leading Japanese think tanks: Institute for International Policy
> Studies (IIPS), The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), and
> Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS).
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Fw: H-ASIA: Pressures on Asian Studies, in Canada and elsewhere

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Subject: H-ASIA: Pressures on Asian Studies, in Canada and elsewhere


> H-ASIA
> December 13, 2012
>
> Pressures on Asian Studies, in Canada and elsewhere
> ************************************************************************
> From: Ryan Dunch <Ryan.Dunch@ualberta.ca>
>
> From time to time on H-ASIA we have discussed the pressures on funding for
> Asian Studies at the post-secondary level in different parts of the world.
> The cuts to Title VI funding in the USA, the cancellation of Sanskrit at
> Cambridge, and the threatened redundancy of a prominent China historian at
> Sydney University are a few examples from the past few years (more can be
> found in the H-ASIA logs). On some level these incidents have all
> reflected
> broader pressures on higher education funding, and their impact on the
> humanities and social sciences in particular.
>
> With some immodesty I would like to draw the attention of H-ASIA readers
> to
> an opinion piece regarding the state of Chinese studies in Canada,
> published yesterday at
> http://www.universityaffairs.ca/canada-is-facing-a-china-knowledge-deficit.aspx.
> It represents a limited effort to think through the difficulties I have
> encountered over my past few years as a department chair in a Canadian
> public university, and to help make a pragmatic case for renewed
> investment
> in Asian language and culture programs for undergraduate and graduate
> students.
>
> I do not think we need a discussion of this article per se on H-ASIA, but
> I
> would welcome comparative analyses of the state of Asian Studies in the
> many different university systems represented among our 7000+ H-ASIA
> readers.
>
> Ryan Dunch
> University of Alberta
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Position Southeast or South Asia History, Franklin and Marshall College, Vstg. Asst prof

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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:54 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Position Southeast or South Asia History, Franklin and
Marshall College, Vstg. Asst prof


> H-ASIA
> December 13, 2012
>
>
> Position: Southeast or South Asian History, Visiting Assistant Professor,
> Franklin and Marshall College
> ********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Job Guide:
>
> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46086
>
>
> Franklin and Marshall College, History
>
> Southeast or South Asian History
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Pennsylvania, United States
> Position: Visiting Assistant Professor
>
>
> The Department of History at Franklin & Marshall College invites
> applications for a one-year visiting position in Southeast Asian or South
> Asian history, beginning Fall 2013. The rank will be Visiting Assistant
> Professor, if the successful candidate holds the Ph.D., or Visiting
> Instructor, if ABD. Teaching experience required. Teaching load is 3/2
> and may include participation in the College's general education
> requirement, "Foundations." The successful candidate will teach a
> two-semester survey of Asian history as well as advanced courses in his or
> her areas of expertise. Candidates should submit the following materials
> as PDF files (searchable preferred) to Ann.Wagoner@fandm.edu: letter of
> application, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript, three letters of
> recommendation, teaching statement, research statement, and teaching
> evaluation forms. Hard copies are also acceptable, and may be sent to
> Professor Douglas Anthony, Chair, Department of History, Franklin &
> Marshall College, Box 3003, Lancaster PA 17604-3003. Deadline for
> applications is February 15, 2013.
>
> Franklin & Marshall College is committed to having an inclusive campus
> community where all members are treated with dignity and respect. As an
> Equal Opportunity Employer, the College does not discriminate in its
> hiring or employment practices on the basis of gender, race or ethnicity,
> color, national origin, religion, age, disability, family or marital
> status, or sexual orientation.
>
>
> Contact: Douglas.Anthony@fandm.edu
>
> Website: http://www.fandm.edu/history
> Primary Category: Asian History / Studies
>
> Secondary Categories: South Asian History / Studies
>
> Posting Date: 12/13/2012
> Closing Date 02/15/2013
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP 3rd Asian Conf. on Asian Studies, Osaka, May 24-26 2013

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP 3rd Asian Conf. on Asian Studies, Osaka, May 24-26 2013


> H-ASIA
> December 16, 2012
>
> Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies: Conference Theme: Intersecting
> Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures, Osaka, Japan,
> May 24-26, 2013
>
> *******************************************************************
> Ed note: The poster did not include specifics of venue or date of
> this conference; I have supplied them from the referenced website.
> FFC
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies: Conference Theme: Intersecting
> Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures
>
> Location: Japan
> Call for Papers Date: 2013-02-01
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-04
> Announcement ID: 199303
>
> Contemporary contexts of the local, regional, national and global raise
> urgent questions about cultural conviviality and cosmopolitan futures
> across Asia. These are times when trans-cultural, trans-national and
> multicultural belonging are particularly being tested through
> environmental catastrophe, economic volatility, parochialism,
> fundamentalism, notions of cosmopolitan and multicultural exhaustion, and
> war. Belonging has become a fundamental dynamic of preservation, atavism,
> tradition and survival as well as hybridity, possibility, change and
> transformation. The aim of this conference theme is to open up discussion,
> exploration and analysis in Asian Studies about emerging social, economic,
> political and cultural trends formed at the intersection of multiple and
> multi-sited belongings.
>
> The aim of this International Conference on Asian studies is to encourage
> academics, scholars and practitioners representing a exciting diversity of
> countries, cultures, and religions to meet and exchange research, ideas
> and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. ACAS 2013 will
> afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new
> contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.
>
> We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):
>
> * Seeking refuge
> * Unruly belonging(s)
> * Intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality
> * Transforming cultures
> * Trans-cultural displacement/belonging
> * New imaginings/formations of home
> * Citizenship beyond borders
> * Communication, new technologies and belonging
> * Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging
> * Cultural politics of survival/transgression
> * Cosmopolitan exhaustion/renewal
> * Belonging in the Anthropocene
> * Construction of identities
> * Multiple and complex belongings
> * Intersecting narratives and identity
> * Re-locating culture across borders
>
> Deadline for call for papers: 1 February 2013.
>
>
> Professor Baden Offord
> School of Arts and Social Sciences
> Southern Cross University
> PO Box 157 Lismore
> Phone: 61 2 66 203 162
> Email: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
> Visit the website at http://acas.iafor.org/
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>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP History, Postcolonialism & Tradition, Postcolonial Studies Assn conf., London, Sept 12-13, 2013

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP History, Postcolonialism & Tradition, Postcolonial
Studies Assn conf., London, Sept 12-13, 2013


> H-ASIA
> December 16, 2012
>
> "History, Postcolonialism and Tradition", 2013 Conference of the
> Postcolonial Studies Association, Kingston University, London,
> September 12-13, 2013
> DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1, 2013
> *******************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> History, Postcolonialism and Tradition
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Conference Date: 2013-09-12
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-04
> Announcement ID: 199298
>
> History, Postcolonialism and Tradition
>
> The organisers of the 2013 Postcolonial Studies Association would like to
> invite proposals for papers on this years theme: History, Postcolonialism
> and Tradition. The theme is designed to facilitate the opportunity for
> interdisciplinary dialogue, particularly (but not exclusively) between the
> spheres of literature, cultural studies, anthropology, the visual arts,
> the performative arts, folklore, history, politics, and the social
> sciences.
>
> Issues of history and tradition remain sites of significant contestation
> for postcolonial studies. Whilst postcolonial studies focuses increasingly
> on future-thinking this is in tension with, and reliant upon, a continued
> need to negotiate the postcolonial cultures relationship to often violent
> histories and the marginalisation of indigenous traditions. Equally,
> global and diasporic cultures are the sites of complex interplays of
> productively competing traditions and forms of remembrance. Issues include
> but are not limited to:
>
> - The difference between history and memory in postcolonial cultures
> - Theoretical approaches to postcolonial history (new historicism,
> cultural materialism)
> - Gendered histories and traditions
> - Myth, folklore and oral tradition
> - Postcolonial historiographies
> - Negotiations of history and tradition in literature, creative writing
> and the visual arts
> - History and/or tradition as source of/barrier to political and social
> change
> - Transformations of history and tradition in the context of global and
> diasporic identities
>
> Confirmed keynote speakers include Robert Irwin (author of The Arabian
> Nights: A Companion and For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their
> Enemies) and Sadhana Naithani (author of In Quest of Indian Tradition and
> The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial
> Folkloristics).
>
> The conference will be held at Kingston University (London) from 12-13
> September 2013. Short abstracts (approx. 300 words) should be sent to the
> organisers, Sara Upstone and Andrew Teverson, at the following address:
> fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk. The deadline for proposals is 15 April
> 2013.
>
>
> Sara Upstone and Andrew Teverson, Kingston University, London
> Email: fass-conferences@kingston.ac.uk
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: TOC _Journal of Religion in Japan_ 1.3

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Subject: H-ASIA: TOC _Journal of Religion in Japan_ 1.3


> H-ASIA
> December 13, 2012
>
> Table of contents: _Journal of Religion in Japan_ 1.3
>
> (xpost H-Shukyo)
> **********************************************************************
> From: Elisabetta Porcu <elisabetta.porcu@uni-leipzig.de>
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> We are pleased to announce that the third issue of the Journal of
> Religion in Japan (JRJ) published from Brill is now available. (Sorry
> for cross posting).
>
>
> Journal of Religion in Japan 1/3 (2012)
>
> CONTENTS
>
> Articles:
>
> SHIMAZONO SUSUMU
> Japanese Buddhism and the Public Sphere: From the End of World War II
> to the Post-Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Power Plant Accident
>
> ISOMAE JUN'ICHI
> The Conceptual Formation of the Category ?Religion? in Modern Japan:
> Religion, State, Shint?
>
>
> Book Reviews:
>
> Benjamin Dorman, Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority
> in Occupied Japan, by Takashi Miura
>
> Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen, Religion and Politics in Contemporary
> Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito, by Elisabetta Porcu
>
> Inoue Hiroshi, 'Shinto' no kyozo to jitsuzo, by Paul B. Watt
>
> Birgit Staemmler and Ulrich Dehn (eds.), Establishing the
> Revolutionary: An Introduction to New Religions in Japan, by Ugo Dessi
>
> Roy Starrs (ed.), Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun,
> White Lotus, by Ian Reader
>
> Contents Volume 1
>
> *****
>
> More information on the Journal of Religion in Japan (aims and scope,
> editorial board etc.) can be found here: http://www.brill.nl/jrj
>
> The first two issues of the Journal of Religion in Japan are available
> online for free at
> http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/22118349
>
> Moreover, individual subscribers can apply for a free online
> subscription to the first volume (3 issues, 2012) of the Journal. To
> apply for such a subscription please contact Maarten Frieswijk, Editor
> Religious Studies, Frieswijk@brill.nl.
>
> We hope that the Journal of Religion in Japan would provide a
> stimulating and challenging venue for enriching the study of religion
> in Japan. We welcome submissions to the Journal through Editorial
> Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/jrj/
>
>
> With our best regards,
>
> The Editors
> Elisabetta Porcu and Paul B. Watt
>
>
> Elisabetta Porcu
> University of Leipzig
> Centre for Area Studies
> Thomaskirchhof 20
> 04109 Leipzig
> Germany
> email: elisabetta.porcu@uni-leipzig.de
>
>
> Paul Watt
> Center for International Education
> Waseda University
> 1-7-14-404 Nishi-Waseda
> Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0051
> Japan
> email: pwatt@aoni.waseda.jp
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