Nobutaka Inoue
Nobutaka Inoue ( Japanese 井上 順 孝 , Inoue Nobutaka ; * 1948 ) has been a professor at the Faculty of Shinto Studies at Kokugakuin University since 2002 , as well as director of the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics (IJCC; Japanese 日本 文化 研究)所 , Nihon bunka kenkyūkai ).
Inoue wrote his dissertation on “ Arguments Regarding Religious Freedom in the Early Meiji Period ” at the University of Tokyo , where he first studied philosophy but then switched to religious studies .
From 1974 to 1982 Inoue was a university assistant in the philosophy faculty of the University of Tokyo. From 1982 to 1986 he worked as a full-time editor, from 1986 to 1992 as assistant professor and from 1992 to 2002 as full professor at the IJCC. In 2019 Inoue was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Inoue's research focus is religious studies , in particular the sociology of religion , comparative research on New Religious Movements , modern Shinto studies, sectarian Shinto and religious instruction .
Inoue also leads the work on the gradual translation of Shinto jiten (the standard encyclopedia on Shinto) by the IJCC into English and the associated publication on the World Wide Web under a Creative Commons license .
Web links
- Personal homepage - Japanese and partly English
- Obsolete biography on Kokugakuin's website from 1994 - English
- Inoue's articles in English in the Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion series
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Inoue, Nobutaka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 井上 順 孝 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese religious scholar and professor of Shinto studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |