Curriculum Vitae

Hiroyuki KUROSAKI
Professor at the Faculty of Shinto Studies, Kokugakuin University
4-10-28, Higashi, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-8440 JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-5466-4452
Fax: +81-3-5466-0208
E-mail: hkuro@kokugakuin.ac.jp, (private) noir@st.rim.or.jp

Areas of Interest

History of religions in modern Japan, the process of biography, narrative and communication in Japanese religious tradition (especially in Shin sect), computer-mediated communication and its impacts on contemporary religions, development of the computer-aided research method in humanities.

Education

April 1993 - March 1996

Graduate Faculty of Letters (Religious Studies), Taisho University, as a Doctoral candidate.

April 1989 - March 1992

Graduate Faculty of Letters (Religious Studies), University of Tokyo.
M.A. in Religious Studies.
M.A. thesis titled: "Shûkyôteki kyôdôsei to monogatari: Shinshûkei kyôdan ni okeru sono tenkai (Religious community and narrative: its development in the branch group of the Shin sect)."

April 1985 - March 1989

University of Tokyo.
B.A. in Religious Studies.

Academic Employment

April 2015 - present

Professor at the Faculty of Shinto Studies, Kokugakuin University.

April 2007 - March 2015

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Shinto Studies, Kokugakuin University.

April 2003 - March 2007

Full-time Lecturer at the Faculty of Shinto Studies, Kokugakuin University.

April 1997 - March 2003

Permanent lecturer at the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.

April 2002 - March 2005

Part time lecturer at Taisho University.

April 1997 - March 2002

Part time instructor at the Faculty of Letters (Computer Literacy Education), Taisho University.

April 1996 - March 1997

Adjunct lecturer at the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.

April 1995 - March 1997

Part time lecturer (COE (= Center of Excellence) researcher) at the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Teaching Experience

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October 2000 - January 2001

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 2: Using the spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel), in Taisho University.

October 2000 - January 2001

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 3: Writing academic reports using computers, in Taisho University.

April 2000 - July 2000

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 1: Basics of using the personal computer, in Taisho University.

April 2000 - July 2000

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 3: Designing web pages, in Taisho University.

October 1999 - January 2000

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 3: Designing web pages, in Taisho University.

October 1999 - January 2000

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 4: Designing advanced web pages, in Taisho University.

April 1999 - July 1999

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 3: Writing academic reports using computers, in Taisho University.

April 1999 - July 1999

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 3: Designing web pages, in Taisho University.

October 1998 - January 1999

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 3-O, 3-H: Writing academic reports using computers, in Taisho University.

October 1998 - January 1999

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 3-D, 3-E: Designing web pages, in Taisho University.

October 1998 - January 1999

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 2: Using the spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel), in Taisho University.

April 1998 - July 1998

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 2: Using the spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel), in Taisho University.

April 1998 - July 1998

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 1: Basics of using the personal computer, in Taisho University.

October 1997 - January 1998

Computer literacy (Hyôgen gijutsu B) 1: Basics of using the personal computer, in Taisho University.

April 1997 - July 1997

Information processing: Writing with the personal computer, in Taisho University.

Publications

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Research Report

• Kurosaki Hiroyuki (ed.), Fukamizu Kenshin, Kasai Kenta, Kawashima Kenji, and Tamura Takanori. The Spread of Electronic Networking and the Transformation of Religion. Tokyo: Kurosaki Hiroyuki, 2000. [Introduction] (in Japanese)

Book

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• Daigakusei no tame no jôhô riterashî (Information Literacy for the University Students). Kashiwa: Michi Shobô, 1999. (Co-author, edited by Taisho Daigaku Joho Kyoiku Kenkyukai)

Articles

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• "Gendai no media komyunikêshon ni okeru shûkyôteki kyôdôsei: kirisutokyô kei mêringu risuto no baai (Religious Communality in Contemporary Media Communication: A Case of One of the Christian Mailing Lists)," in Ôtani Eiichi, Kawamata Toshinori and Kikuchi Hiroo (eds.), Kôchiku sareru shinnen: shûkyô shakaigaku no akuchuaritî wo motomete (Constructing Belief: Searching the Actuality of the Sociology of Religion), Tokyo: Harvest-sha, 2000. (in Japanese)
• "Nihon shûkyô ni okeru intânetto riyô no shakai teki bunmyaku (Social Contexts of the Internet Usage in Japanese Religions)," Kokugakuin daigaku nihon bunka kenkyûsho kiyô 85 (2000): 592(1)-579(14). (in Japanese)
• "Nihon shûkyô no intânetto riyô no hikaku bunseki ni mukete: jinja webusaito no baai (Toward the comparative study of Internet usage by Japanese religions: Shinto shrine websites)," Kokugakuin daigaku nihon bunka kenkyûsho kiyô 83 (1999): 434(35)-421(48). (in Japanese)
• "Myôkôninden no chihei to kindai (The horizon of Myôkôninden and the modernity)," in Oda Jun'ichi (ed.), Monogatari no hasseigaku (Genesis of narrative), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foregin Studies, 1997, 41-50. (in Japanese)
• "Hori Ichirô no Nippon Bukkyo bunkashi kenkû (On Hori Ichirô's study concerning the cultural history of Japanese Buddhism)," Bukkyo bunka gakkai kiyô 4-5 (1996): 179-196. (in Japanese)
• "Taishô Shôwa zenki no myôkôninden to Suzuki Daisetz (Myôkôninden (biography of Shin-sect adherents) in Taisho and Showa period and Suzuki Daisetz)," Taishô Daigaku daigakuin kenkyû ronshû 19 (1995): 179-192. (in Japanese)
• "Myôkôninden hensanshi saikô: Taishô ki Shinshû shinja genkôroku wo tegakari ni shite (Rethinking myôkôninden, biography of Shin-sect adherents)," Tôkyô Daigaku shûkyôgaku nenpô 11 (1994): 81-93. (in Japanese)

Annotated Bibliography

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• SHIMAZONO Susumu and ISOMAE Jun'ichi (eds.), Tôkyô Teikoku Daigaku shintô kenkyûshitsu kyûzôsho: Mokuroku oyobi kaisetsu (Annotated bibliography of works in the collection of the Shinto Research Office of Tokyo Imperial University). Tokyo: Tôkyôdô Shuppan, 1996, pp.141-142 (with HAYASHI Makoto), 142-144, 168-171 (with ENDO Jun), 315-316 (with ISOMAE), 326 (with HAYASHI), 328-340, 341-344 (with HAYASHI), 388-395 (with ENDO), 432-400 (with IKEZAWA Masaru and WADA Mitsutoshi), 459-502. ISBN4-490-20293-8 (in Japanese)

Research Report

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• "Konpyûta nettowâku no fukyû to shûkyôteki kôi no hen'yô ni kansuru chôsa kenkyû (The expansion of the computer networks and the transformation of religious acts). " Denki tsûshin fukyû zaidan kenkyû chôsa hôkokusho 14-I (2000): 143-153. (in Japanese) (Co-authored by Kasai Kenta, Tamura Takanori and Fukamizu Kenshin)

Oral Presentation

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Book Reviews

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• "Tosa Masaki cho, Intânetto to shûkyô ((Book Review) TOSA Masaki, Religions in the Internet," Shûkyô kenkyû (Journal of Religious Studies) 322: 204-207. (in Japanese)

Affiliations

• Japanese Association for Religious Studies
• Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society
• Research Society of Buddhism and Cultural Heritage (Japan)
• Nihon Kindai Bukkyôshi Kenkyûkai (Japan)

Language Skills

• Japanese: Native proficiency.
• English: read academic books and papers, read and write brief letters. Between 1995 and 1997, communicated with visiting foreign researchers in ILCAA. Since 1997, exchange English e-mails with visitors of the IJCC website.
• French: Elementary proficiency.