Elisabetta Porcu
Elisabetta Porcu is Associate Professor of Asian religions and Head of Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Cape Town. Before moving to South Africa, she worked at universities in Kyoto (2004-2010) and taught Japanese religions at the University of Leipzig (2010-2014). She has been Visiting Research Scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto (2013-2014), Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hawaii (2013), and Visiting Professor at Kyushu University, and undertook extensive fieldwork in Japan (2004-2010; 2012; 2013-2014; 2016-2017; 2018). She is currently working on a monograph on the Gion Festival in Kyoto.
Elisabetta is an NRF (South Africa's National Research Foundation) B-rated researcher and the current President of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA).
She is the founding editor of the Journal of Religion in Japan (Brill) http://www.brill.com/jrj.
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3074-5754
Address: University of Cape Town
Department for the Study of Religions
5.36.1 Leslie Social Sciences Building
Upper Campus
Cape Town 7700
South Africa
Elisabetta is an NRF (South Africa's National Research Foundation) B-rated researcher and the current President of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA).
She is the founding editor of the Journal of Religion in Japan (Brill) http://www.brill.com/jrj.
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3074-5754
Address: University of Cape Town
Department for the Study of Religions
5.36.1 Leslie Social Sciences Building
Upper Campus
Cape Town 7700
South Africa
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Keywords: Gion Festival; glocalization; festivals; matsuri; locality; UNESCO; tourism
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
https://brill.com/view/journals/jrj/9/1-3/jrj.9.issue-1-3.xml
Keywords: religion in Japan, Japanese Buddhism, second modernity, individualization, Ulrich Beck, Honkōji
Keywords: Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist temples, branding, popular culture, consumerism, Ryōhōji, pop characters, Hello Kitty, marketing strategies
The paper can be accessed through: https://brill.com/view/journals/jrj/1/1/article-p83_6.xml
Keywords: Gion Festival; glocalization; festivals; matsuri; locality; UNESCO; tourism
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
https://brill.com/view/journals/jrj/9/1-3/jrj.9.issue-1-3.xml
Keywords: religion in Japan, Japanese Buddhism, second modernity, individualization, Ulrich Beck, Honkōji
Keywords: Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist temples, branding, popular culture, consumerism, Ryōhōji, pop characters, Hello Kitty, marketing strategies
The paper can be accessed through: https://brill.com/view/journals/jrj/1/1/article-p83_6.xml
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Published in The Japan Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations Bulletin (2015).