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Brian D. Ruppert
(Ph.D. Princeton)
Head of Department
Associate Professor EALC and Religious Studies:
Religion and the state in Japan, methodology and history of
East Asian religions, gender in Japanese religions, Buddhism
in Japanese cultural history.
217-244-4012
ruppert@uiuc.edu |
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Professor Ruppert
specializes in the history of Japanese religion; early and
medieval Japanese cultural history; popular religion in premodern
Japan; Buddhism in premodern Japan; and religion and the state
in premodern Japan. His current research interests include
practices and representations of ritual gift-giving and exchange
in medieval Japan; and the development of Buddhist temple
treasuries and manuscript collections. Professor Ruppert is
the author of Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power
in Early Medieval Japan (Harvard University Asia Center
and Harvard UP, 2000), "Sin or Crime? Buddhism, Indebtedness,
and the Construction of Social Relations in Early Medieval
Japan" (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
28.1-2, 2001), "Pearl in the Shrine: A Genealogy of the
Buddhist Jewel of the Japanese Sovereign" (Japanese
Journal of Religious Studies 29.1-2, 2002), "Buddhist
Rainmaking in Early Japan: The Dragon King and the Ritual
Careers of Esoteric Buddhist Monks" (History
of Religions 42.2, 2002), "Shari shinko to zoyo/shuseki/joho
no nihon chusei shi" (Relic Veneration and Gift-giving/Accumulation/Information
in Medieval Japanese History, in IMAI Masaharu, ed., Chusei
Bukkyo no tenkai to sono kiban, Daizo Press, 2002), and
numerous other articles in English and Japanese. His most
recent articles include: "Buddhism in Japan," in
The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., Editor in Chief,
Lindsay Jones, Gale/Macmillan Reference (2005), and "Chusei
zenki ni okeru kiu oyobi kiuki ruiju: Shougyoho ni kansuru
ichikosatsu" (Rain Prayer and Rain-prayer Document Categorization:
An Examination of the Rite of the Scripture of Rain Prayer),
in Kamikawa Michio and Kakuzensho Kenkyukai, eds., Kakuzen
sho no kenkyu (2004).
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