D. Max Moerman
C.V.

Education

A.B. 1986 Columbia College, Religion

Ph.D. 1999 Stanford University, Religious Studies

Selected Publications and Papers

Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005.

“The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion.” In Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan, ed. Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.

“Passage to Fudaraku: Suicide and Salvation in Premodern Japanese Buddhism.” In The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, ed. Jacqueline I. Stone. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.

“Japanese Buddhism” In The Columbia Companion to Asian Religions, ed. Robert A. F. Thurman. New York: Columbia University Press, in press.

“The Life of the Death of the Buddha: The Parivirvana in Japanese Iconography.”  In The Life of the Buddha: New Directions in Research, ed. Phyllis Granoff and Sonya Quintanilla. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, in press.

"The Ideology of Landscape and the Theater of State: Imperial Pilgrimage to Kumano." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 24 3-4 (Fall 1997).

Works in Progress

Geographies of the Imagination: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map. Under contract with Harvard University Asia Center.