Tomoko Masuzawa | Oaths, Lies, and Indemnity or How to Maintain Established Churches in a Pluralist State
Speaker Biography
Tomoko Masuzawa is Professor Emerita of History and of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Born and educated in Tokyo, she holds an MA (Yale) and a Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara) in Religious Studies. She is a scholar of European intellectual history, with a special interest in modern discourses on religion and the history of human sciences. She previously taught in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her representative publications include In Search of Dreamtime: the Quest for the Origin of Religion (1993), The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (2005), “The Bible as Literature?—Note on a Litigious Ferment of the Concept” (2013), “Striating Difference: From ‘Ceremonies and Customs’ to World Religions” (2014), and “Theology, the Fairy Queen” (2021). She has held a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship as well as a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ). She lives in New York City.
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