Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at SOAS: Members

Lucia Dolce

Chair, Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions

Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations

Tel: 020 7898 4217
Email: ld16@soas.ac.uk
Room: 342
Office Hours: Term 2 : Thursdays 3:00-4:00
On Sabbatical:Term 1 2017/18

Meri Arichi

History of Japanese Art, Buddhist Art of Japan in context

Tel: 020 7898 4463
Email: ma70@soas.ac.uk
Room: B302
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm

Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen

Japanese politics, religion and civil society in Japan, anthropology of politics, and social theory.

Email: af3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 502
Office Hours: Fridays 13:30-14:30, and by appointment

Fabio Gygi

Japanese society, material culture, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural history

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4417
Email: fg5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 562
Office Hours: Tuesdays 16.00-18.00/By Email Appointment

Japanese religions; pilgrimage studies; ritual enunciation, religious materiality and spirit possession; design practices and politics of urban space; generative semiotics, linguistic anthropology and actor-network-theory.

Email: tp26@soas.ac.uk
Room: T402

Antonello Palumbo

Ideological history of pre-modern China; Chinese religions, notably Taoism and Buddhism; history of the Buddhist canon in China; Manichaeism and Iranian influences in medieval China; Chinese cultural relations with Central Asia

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4768
Email: ap47@soas.ac.uk
Room: 345
Office Hours: Fridays 3:00-5:00pm

Timon Screech

History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4453
Email: ts8@soas.ac.uk
Room: B408
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm

Cosimo Zene

Anthropology of religion, theory in the study of religions, continental philosophy, Gramsci and religion, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, minorities (Dalits), mysticism and heresy, non-Western Christianities, Mediterranean anthropology; South-Asia (India, Bangladesh), Sardinia, world philosophies.