Notes on Contributors
Micah Auerback is associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of A Storied Sage: Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha (2016).
Martin Baumann is professor for the Study of Religions at the University of Lucerne. He specializes in the fields of Buddhist and Hindu traditions beyond Asia, diaspora studies and plurality of religions in modern societies. He has published on these topics, including the textbook Religion und Migration (with Alexander Nagel, Nomos 2023), the article “Eastern Religions and Europe”, in: Grace Davie, Lucian Leustean (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe (Oxford University Press 2021), and co-authored with Rebekka Khaliefi “Muslim and Buddhist Youths in Switzerland: Individualising Religion and Striving for Recognition?” (Social Inclusion, 2020).
Mick Deneckere specializes in modern Japanese Buddhism and focuses on the endeavours of various modern Japanese Buddhist intellectuals following their study trips to Europe in the 1870s. She has contributed to the edited volumes Modern Buddhism in Japan (Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 2014) and Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West (Bloomsbury 2020) and has published in several journals, including Global Intellectual History. She is currently finalising a book on Shin Buddhism and Japanese modernity as an affiliated researcher with the Institute of Japanese Studies at Ghent University and teaches courses on Buddhism and Eastern religions at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven.
Catherine Fhima is an historian based at the Centre de Recherches historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Her research focuses on the identities of Jewish and French writers and intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century. She has published, in collaboration with Roland Lardinois, articles on Sylvain Lévi, Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Émile Durkheim. Her publications include: “Une configuration littéraire: des écrivains juifs et français entre 1890–1930” (Questions de communication, 2021), and “Judeity. Identity and Otherness: Jews in France circa 1900”, in Béatrice Delaurenti and Thomas Le Roux (eds), Cultures of Contagion (MIT Press, 2021).
Hans Martin Krämer is professor of Japanese Studies at Heidelberg University. He specializes in modern Japanese history and has published on various aspects of the history of Japanese religions, covering Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan (Hawai‘i UP, 2021) and Theosophy Across Boundaries: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement (SUNY Press, 2020), and the article “An Anti-Secularist Pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–1920” (Modern Asian Studies, 2022).
Roland Lardinois is a sociologist at the CNRS, member of the Centre d’Etudes Sud Asiatiques et Himalayennes (CESAH) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). His research deals with contemporary India and also with the history of Indology in France. He has edited different volumes of orientalist correspondence and published articles, in collaboration with Catherine Fhima, on Sylvain Lévi, Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Émile Durkheim. His publications include: Sylvain Lévi et l’entrée du sanskrit au Collège de France (École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2018) and a volume edited in collaboration with Charles Gadea, Les Mondes de l’ingénieur en Inde (XIXe-XXIe siècle) (Classiques Garnier, 2022).
Stephan Kigensan Licha is Assistant Professor of Japanese Buddhism at the University of Chincago. He received his PhD from SOAS in 2012 and specializes in the intellectual history of Japanese Buddhism, with an emphasis on the interactions between the premodern tantric, Tendai, and Zen traditions, and the global history of Buddhist modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His publications include the monograph, Esoteric Zen: Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan (Brill, 2023), “The Small Vehicle: The Construction of Hinayana and Japan’s Modern Buddhism” (Monumenta Nipponica, 2022), and “Premodern Japanese Zen” (Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2023).
Suzanne Marchand is LSU Systems Boyd (University) Professor of European Intellectual History at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Marchand obtained her BA from UC Berkeley in 1984, and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992. She served as assistant and then associate professor at Princeton University before moving to LSU in 1999. She is the author of Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750–1870 (Princeton, 1996), German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Race, Religion, and Scholarship (Cambridge, 2009), and Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton, 2020).
Ōmi Toshihiro is professor in the department of literature, Musashino University, Japan. He specializes in modern Japanese religions, especially Shin Buddhism. He is the author of Kindai Bukkyō no naka no shinshū (2014), Butsuzō to Nihonjin (2018), Kagakuka suru bukkyō (2020), and the translator of the Japanese version of D.T. Suzuki’s Zen and Japanese Culture (2022).
Jakub Zamorski is assistant professor and lecturer in East Asian Buddhism at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He researches and publishes on doctrinal and intellectual history of Pure Land Buddhism in early modern and modern China and Japan, on the reception of Buddhist logic and epistemology in East Asia and occasionally on other topics related to Chinese and Japanese Buddhist thought. He has contributed articles to e.g. Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies and Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, as well as chapters in edited volumes and essays in encyclopedias (e.g. chapter on Chinese Pure Land doctrine in Brill Encyclopedia of Buddhism, forthcoming).