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)

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