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Jun'ichi Isomae (1961 - ) is a scholar of Japanese religious studies and critical theorist. He currently works as a professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken). He has worked extensively in the field of Japanese religion, Japanese myths, critical Shinto studies, and postcolonial studies.

Biography
Isomae was born in Ibaraki prefecture and obtained a B.A. in Japanese History and Archaeology from the Faculty of Humanities, Shizuoka University. Then he joined the Ph.D. program in the field of Religious studies at the Graduate School of Humanities, the University of Tokyo. After dropping out of the Ph.D. program in 1991, he worked as an Assistant Professor, at the Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo; then at Japan Women's University before joining International Research Center for Japanese Studies as an Associate Professor in 2007. He became a professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in 2015. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2010 with a dissertation titled "Religious Discourses and their Lineages in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shinto."

Monograph

 * ISOMAE Jun'ichi, Disquiet Voices of the Dead: On the Religious practice in Northeast Japan, Kawadeshobo-Shinsha, 2015.04
 * ISOMAE Jun'ichi, Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō, Brill, 2014.06
 * ISOMAE Jun'ichi, Iki no Shiko: Tasha, Gaibusei, Kokyo [Thoughts on Threshold: Others, Exteriority and Homes], 2013.07
 * ISOMAE Jun'ichi, Death of the Concept `Religion' or Religious Studies, University Press of Tokyo, 2012.07
 * ISOMAE Jun'ichi, Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture, Equinox Publishing, 2010

External Link

 * 国際日本文化研究センター|磯前順一