Panel 5 – New Directions in the Study of Religion in the ‘Opening of Japan‘

Esra Almas
Tatars in Interwar Japan: Unlikely Agents of Modernity
Nile Green
A Persianate Japanology? The Indo-Iranian Encounter with Meiji Japan
Chinami Oka
One is Two, Two is One, and Hence, God Is ‘Bi-Sexual’: A Transnational, Religious, and Intellectual History of Arai Ōsui and Civil War Losers in Meiji Japan
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This talk is part of the “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’” Two-day international graduate conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Ishin at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. For our full list of speakers, please see reopeningtheopening.wordpress.com