Janine Sawada, Department of Religious Studies

314 Gilmore Hall • Iowa City, IA 52242 • 319-335-2164

Curriculum Vitae
Janine Tasca Anderson Sawada

Business Address:
308 Gilmore Hall
Department of Religious Studies
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: 319-335-2160
E-mail: j-sawada@uiowa.edu

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Education
Ph.D., Japanese and Chinese Religions, Columbia University, 1990
M.Phil., Japanese and Chinese Religions, Columbia University, 1986
M.T.S., History of Religion, Harvard University, 1981
B.A., Philosophy, Reed College

Positions
Professor, Religious Studies, 2006-; International Programs, UI 2006-
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, 1999-2006; International Programs, UI, 2005-2006
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, UI, 1994-99
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Grinnell Col1ege, 1990-94

SCHOLARSHIP

Books
Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004. 388 pp.

Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai’i Press, 1993. 256 pp.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“Sexual Relations as Religious Practice in the Late Tokugawa Period: Fujidō.” Journal of Japanese Studies 32.2 (Summer 2006): 341-366.

“Ishida Baigan’s Learning of the Mind and the Way of the Merchant.” In Sources of Japanese Tradition, Second Edition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000. Comp. W. T. de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 294-307.

“The Confucian Linguistic Community in Late Tokugawa Japan.” In Confucian Spirituality, Vol. II. Ed. Tu Wei-ming and Mary Evelyn Tucker. World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, 11B. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 2004. 270-288.

“Tokugawa Religious History: Studies in Western Languages.” Early Modern Japan 10.1 (Spring 2002):39-64.

“Bibliography: Religion and Thought in Early Modern Japan.” In consultation with James McMullen. Early Modern Japan 10.1 (Spring 2002): 72-85.

"The Shingaku of Nakazawa Dôni." In Religions of Japan in Practice. Ed. George Tanabe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

“Political Waves in the Zen Sea: The Engakuji Circle in Early Meiji Japan.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 25.1-2 (Spring 1998): 117-150.

“Mind and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Religions: Misogi-kyô and Maruyama-kyô.” Philosophy East and West 48.1 (Spring 1998): 108-141.

"Religious Conflict in Bakumatsu Japan: Zen Master Imakita Kôsen and Confucian Scholar Higashi Takusha." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 21.2-3 (June-Sept. 1994): 211-230.

"'No Eye: A Word to the Wise': Teshima Toan's Commentary on Ikkyû's Mizu kagami." The Eastern Buddhist, n.s., 24.2 (Autumn 1991): 98-122.

Selected Presentations
“‘Civilization and Enlightenment’” from the Perspective of Mt. Fuji Devotionalism: Maruyamakyō.” Research presentation. Symposium on “Promoting and Resisting Westernization in Meiji Japan.” Scripps College, September 15-17, 2006.

“Physical Disciplines in Late Tokugawa Religion.” Research presentation. Panel on “Varieties of Tokugawa Religion,” World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, March 28, 2005.

“Divination as Cultivation.” Research presentation. Panel on “The Early Modern Characteristics of Tokugawa Religion,” American Academy of Religion, Toronto, Nov. 24, 2002.

“‘Shinto’ in Relation to Other Interpretive Traditions in Tokugawa Japan.” Research presentation, Symposium on “New Perspectives in the Study of Shinto,” Columbia University, New York, Oct. 3, 2002.

“The Religious Cultivation of Gender Equilibrium in Nineteenth-Century Japan.” Research presentation. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, Nov. 19, 1999.

“The Rhetoric of Practice in Early Meiji Rinzai Zen.” Research paper. The International Association of Buddhist Studies, Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 27, 1999.

“Lay and Monastic Boundaries in Early Meiji Rinzai Zen.” Research presentation, Ctr. for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, May 5, 1997.

“Confucian Traditions and Japanese Religious Movements.” Fifth Annual Japan Foundation Symposium of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, co-sponsored by the Ctr. for Japanese Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley, April 6, 1996.

Field Research
Japan: 2002; 1998-99; 1996; 1993-94; 1992; 1986-87. Korea: 1982.
Italy: 2003; 2004.

Selected Grants And Awards
2004 UI Global Scholar
2001 UI Arts and Humanities
1998-99 SSRC/JSPS
1993-94 Japan Foundation
1989-90 Mrs. Giles Whiting
1986-87 Japan Foundation; Fulbright-Hays (declined)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (abridged)

Liaison, UI Crossing Borders Program, Department of Religious Studies, 2006-
President, Society for the Study of Japanese Religions, 1999-2005.
UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Advisory Committee, 2000-
UI International Studies undergraduate mentor, 2003-
Steering committee, East Asian Religions Consultation, AAR, 1992-1997.

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