Tomoko Masuzawa is professor emerita of comparative literature and history at the
University of Michigan
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. In 1979, she received her MA in religious studies at
Yale University
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. Masuzawa received her PhD in religious studies from
University of California Santa Barbara
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in 1985. European intellectual history (19th century), discourses on religion, history of religion, and psychoanalysis are Masuzawa’s fields of study.
Bibliography
* ''In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion'' (1993)
* "Culture" in Mark C. Taylor (ed.), ''Critical Terms for Religious Studies'' (1998)
* "Origin" in Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon (eds.), ''Guide to the Study of Religion'' (1999)
* "From Empire to Utopia: Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon" in ''Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique'' (1999)
* ''The Invention of World Religions or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism'' (2005)
References
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External links
Masuzawa Guggenheim Fellowship 2010
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University of Michigan faculty
American philosophers
American academics of Japanese descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people