Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Janine Sawada
Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of East Asian Studies
Research Interests
Buddhism, Edo, Fuji Shinkō, History, Italy (Rome), Japan, Mt. Fuji, Neo-Confucianism, New Religions, Popular Religion, Religion, Shingaku, Shugendō, Tokugawa
Biography
Janine Sawada specializes in the religious and intellectual history of early modern Japan. She is currently studying the religious movement dedicated to Mt. Fuji (later called Fujiko) with particular attention to the role of prayer rituals (kaji kito) in its formative phases, during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.