Helen Hardacre
Helen Hardacre (born May 20, 1949) is an American academic and Japanologist. At Harvard University, she is the Reischauer Professor of Japanese Religions and Society.
Early life
[change | change source]Hardacre is the daughter of British historian Paul H. Hardacre.[1]
Her research was supported by a Gugghenheim fellowship.[2]
Career
[change | change source]Hardacre was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1995 through 1998.[3]
Her research interests focused on religion in Japan and the history of Japan.[4]
Selected works
[change | change source]In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Helen Hardacre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 80+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings[5]
- Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan : Reiyūkai Kyōdan, 1983
- The Religion of Japan's Korean Minority : the Preservation of Ethnic Identity, 1984
- Kurozumikyō and the New Religions of Japan, 1985
- Maitreya, the Future Buddha, 1988
- Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan, 1988
- Shintō and the State, 1868-1988, 1989
- Asian Visions of Authority Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia, 1994
- New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan, 1997
- The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States, 1998
- Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: a Study of the Southern Kantō Region, using late Edo and early Meiji Gazetteers, 2002
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ "Retired Vanderbilt professor, Paul Hardacre, passes away," Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine Vanderbilt Hustler, June 18, 2010.
- ↑ "Allan B. Burdick – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2023-08-21. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS), Director Archived 2012-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA), 2005 Conference, keynote speaker bio notes Archived 2006-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ WorldCat Identities Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: Hardacre, Helen 1949-
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