Profiles

Associate Professor TOISHIBA Shiho
Affiliations :
- Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
- Division of Department of Global Humanities
- Comparative and Cross-Cultural Studies Course
- Department of Religious Studies


- Research, History
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- Courses
- Religious Studies (Advanced Lecture); Science of Religions (General Lecture); Science of Religions (Special Lecture)
- Personal History
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Born 1984, Sapporo
Graduated from the College of Comparative Culture, University of Tsukuba
Received an M.A. in Religious Studies at the Graduate School of Advanced Literary Studies, Taisho University
Completed the full-term (5-year) doctoral program in Philosophy at the Graduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Awarded DC and PD Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Career:
Corporate worker (5 years)
Researcher, International Institute for the Study of Religions
Research Fellow (PD), The Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University
Part-time Lecturer
Apr. 2022 Appointed to current position
- Degree
- Ph.D (Literature)
- Field
- Religious Studies; Sociology of Religion; History of Religion in Contemporary Japan
- Research Subject
- Ancestor worship, funeral rites, and burial systems in modern and contemporary Japan
- Affiliation
- Japanese Association for Religious Studies; The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society; The Folklore Society of Japan; University of Tsukuba Philosophical Association
- Database of Researchers Information
- https://www.r-info.tohoku.ac.jp/ja/01b22a8a37af640ba4215147802730c6.html