Tomoko Masuzawa Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	Contemporary philosophy
Institutions:	University of Michigan Department of Comparative Literature Department of History

Tomoko Masuzawa (1979 - present) is professor emerita of Comparative Literature and History at the University of Michigan. In 1979, she received her MA in religious studies at Yale University. Masuzawa received her PhD in Religious Studies from University of California Santa Barbara in 1985. European intellectual history (19th century), discourses on religion, history of religion, and psychoanalysis are Masuzawa's fields of study.

Bibliography

• In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion (1993)
• "Culture" in Mark C. Taylor (ed.), Critical Terms for Religious Studies (1998)
• "Origin" in Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon (eds.), Guide to the Study of Religion (1999)
• "From Empire to Utopia: Effacement of Colonial Markings in Lost Horizon" in Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique (1999)
• The Invention of World Religions or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (2005)

References

Works cited

• Mozumder. Mohammad Golam Nabi. 2011. Interrogating Post-Secularism: Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Talal Asad. MA. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. University of Pittsburgh. 1 November 2018.

External links

• Masuzawa Guggenheim Fellowship 2010
• The University of Alabama - Department of Religious Studies
• Profile at the University of Michigan