IAHR Executive Committee Members
Prof. Satoko Fujiwara
Department of Religious Studies
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology/Faculty of Letters
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN
Tel: +81-3-5841-3888
President: Satoko Fujiwara
Professor of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan.
B.A/M.A., Religious Studies, University of Tokyo.
Ph.D., History of Religions, the Divinity School, University of Chicago (Dissertation title: “The Emergence of the Sacred: A Historical and Theoretical Critique of a Key Concept in the Study of Religion”).
Fields of specialization: theories of religious studies, comparative study of religious education
Memberships in Professional Organizations:
- International Association for the History of Religions (Executive Committee member, 2010-present, Acting Secretary General 2017-2020, Secretary General 2020-2025))
- Science Council of Japan (Secretary of the Humanities and Social Sciences Section, 2016-2017, Vice-Chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Section, 2017-2019)
- Japanese Association for Religious Studies (President, 2024-present)
- The Japan Federation of Societies for the Study of Religions (General Secretary, 2010-present)
Selected Publications in English:
- Global Perspectives on the Concept of Science in the Study of Religions (co-edited with D. Chetty & K. Triplett), Equinox, forthcoming.
- Global Phenomenologies of Religion: An Oral History in Interviews (co-edited with D. Thurfjell & S. Engler), Equinox, 2021.
- “Academia” in The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, ed. by Jolyon B. Thomas and Matthew D. McMullen, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2024, 85–102.
- “An Analysis of Sixty Years of Numen: How Much Diversity Have We Achieved?” in NVMEN, the Academic Study of Religion, and the IAHR: Past, Present, and Prospects, ed. by T. Jensen and A. W. Geertz, Leiden: Brill, 2015, 391–414.
- “Japan” in Religious Studies: A Global View, ed. by Gregory D. Alles, Routledge, 2008, 191–217.