Dahl, Shayne

Banting Postdoctoral Researcher

History and Religion Department

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shayne.dahl@uleth.ca

About Me

Past Appointments
2021-2022, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

2019-2021, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Religious Studies, McMaster University

2018-2020, Assistant Professor (limited term appointment), Sociology and Anthropology, University of Prince Edward Island

2017tLecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Scarborough

Education
2019tPh.D., Anthropology, University of Toronto
Diss.: Mountains of Time: Historical Consciousness and Sacred Mountains in Japan

2012tM.A., Anthropology, Trent University
Thesis: Knowing Means Connecting with the Source of Life: Knowledge and Ethics among the Blackfoot

2007tB.A. (Hons.), Religious Studies, University of Lethbridge
Honours Thesis: Sacrifice and Healing in Blackfoot Metaphysics

Publications

Journal Articles

2023 Sutra as Speech Act: Shugendo Rivalries and the Heart Sutra in Northeastern Japan. Pacific World 4(4): 5-24.

2023tAscetic Ressentiment: Historical Consciousness and Mountain Politics in Northeastern Japan. History and Anthropology 34:3, 353-371.

2020tBuddhist Mummy or "Living Buddha"? The Politics of Immortality in Japanese Buddhism. Anthropological Forum 30(3): 292-312.

2017tSummits Where Souls Gather: Mountain Pilgrimage in Post-disaster Japan. Journal of Religion in Japan 6 (1): 27-53.

2013 Sleep, Dreams, and the Imagination: Psychosocial Adaptations to an Ever-Changing World. Co-authored with Roger I. Lohmann. Reviews in Anthropology 42(2): 56-84.

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Book Reviews

2022tDefining Shugendō: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion, edited by Andrea Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli, and Carina Roth. Japan Review 36.

2020t野蛮から高貴へ : 日 本戦後思想の中の東北地方、一九四五―二〇一一
[Reprint of "Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945-2011," by Nathan Hopson]. 日本研究 [Japan Research] 61: 179-182.

2019tEnnobling Japan's Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945-2011, by Nathan Hopson. Japan Review 32: 199-201.

2014tAscetic Practices in Japanese Religion, by Tullio Federico Lobetti. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 41 (2): 416-418.

In The Media

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