Ernils Larsson
Postdoctoral position at Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS)
- E-mail:
- ernils.larsson@teol.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3C
751 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Teologiska institutionen
Box 511
751 20 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Ernils Larsson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, where he is currently working on the project "From Secular Institution to Religious Organzation: Shrine Shinto in Postwar Japan", funded through the Swedish Research Council. His research focuses primarily on questions related to religion, law, and politics in postwar Japan.
Larsson holds a PhD degree in the history of religions from the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University.
Publications
Recent publications
- The Naha Confucius Temple lawsuit and religion-making in Japan’s courts of law (2024)
- Religion and World Politics (2023)
- Addressing the Shinto establishment (2023)
- Public Shrine Ritual or Private Religion? (2023)
- Covenantal Pluralism in “Homogenous” Japan: Finding a Space for Religious Pluralism (2022)
All publications
Articles
- The Naha Confucius Temple lawsuit and religion-making in Japan’s courts of law (2024)
- Religion and World Politics (2023)
- Addressing the Shinto establishment (2023)
- Covenantal Pluralism in “Homogenous” Japan: Finding a Space for Religious Pluralism (2022)
- “Cutting Up a Chicken with a Cow-Cleaver” (2022)
- Shintō in the History and Culture of Japan by Ronald S. Green (2022)
- Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese "New" Religion (2019)
- Review: Larsson on Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan" (2019)
- Review: "The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism" by Mitsutoshi Horii (2018)
- Jinja Honchō and the Politics of Constitutional Reform in Japan (2017)
- Nationalismen på frammarsch i Japan (2016)
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