Helen Hardacre
Helen Hardacre (1949- ) is an American academic and Japanologist. At Harvard University, she is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society.
Hardacre is the daughter of British historian Paul H. Hardacre;[1] and like her father, Hardacre would be awarded a Gugghenheim fellowship.[2]
Career
She was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1995 through 1998.[3] Her interests include Japanese society and religion and the ramifications of potential constitutional amendments on the future of religion in Japan.[4]
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Helen Hardacre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 80+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings[5]
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- Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan : Reiyūkai Kyōdan (1983)
- The Religion of Japan's Korean Minority : the Preservation of Ethnic Identity (1984)
- Kurozumikyō and the New Religions of Japan (1985)
- Maitreya, the Future Buddha (1988)
- Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan (1988)
- Shintō and the State, 1868-1988 (1989)
- Asian Visions of Authority Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia (1994)
- New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (1997)
- The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States (1998)
- Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: a Study of the Southern Kantō Region, using late Edo and early Meiji Gazetteers (2002)
Notes
- ^ "Retired Vanderbilt professor, Paul Hardacre, passes away," Vanderbilt Hustler, June 18, 2010.
- ^ Guggenheim fellows, Paul H. Hardacre (1957), Helen Hardacre (2003)
- ^ RIJS, Director
- ^ Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA), 2005 Conference, keynote speaker bio notes
- ^ WorldCat Identities: Hardacre, Helen 1949-
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