Hi all,

You are invited to join for the below public lecture through my Anthropology of Japan course at the University of Colorado Boulder. Please register in advance!

Best,

Kate

Public lecture: Wed, Mar 20, 2024

12:20-1:10pm MT, on Zoom

Register in advance:

Registration: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtfuCqqTIrG9cNae-ndyBHEXnxAWman4kR

 

Religion, Politics, Law, and Media: The Case of the Unification Church in Japan

Dr. Levi McLaughlin

Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University

 

McLaughlin will introduce Japan's diverse religious landscape by showing how people's everyday interactions with Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and other religious sites, as well as within politics and other spheres, instantiate religion in Japanese contexts. He will discuss historical processes that inform dispositions that guide Japanese people's religious interactions, examine distinctive ambiguities that surround "religion" as a Japanese category, and highlight new challenges that have emerged in the wake of the July 2022 murder of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, in connection to controversies surrounding the Unification Church in Japan. Finally, he will introduce more recent developments in the ways religion and politics are changing as efforts to dissolve the Unification Church proceed through the courts, taking into account perspectives from church adherents and their various opponents.

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Kathryn E. Goldfarb
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Colorado at Boulder
1350 Pleasant St.
Boulder, CO 80309
Hale Science 350 | Campus Box 233 UCB
Office: Hale Science 466
Office phone: 303.492.1589
kathryn.goldfarb@colorado.edu