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David (Max) Moerman
Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
D. Max Moerman, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, joined the faculty of Barnard College in 1998. Professor Moerman is also affiliated with Barnard's Comparative Literature Program.
He is the Associate Director of the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture, Columbia University, and of the Columbia Center for Japanese Religions.Selected Publications
“Dying Like the Buddha: Intervisuality and the Cultic Image,” Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America Vol. 28 (2007-2008): 25-57.
Geographies of the Imagination: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map (Harvard University Asia Center, under contract).
"Japanese Buddhism," The Columbia Companion to Asian Religions, R. A. F. Thurman ed., (New York: Columbia University Press, in press).
"The Life of the Death of the Buddha: The Parivirvana in Japanese Iconography," The Life of the Buddha: New Directions in Research, P. Granoff and S. Quintanilla eds. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, in press).
"The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion," Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan, M. Adolphson and E. Kamens eds. (Honolulu: University of Hawaií Press, 2007).
"Passage to Fudaraku: Suicide and Salvation in Premodern Japanese Buddhism," The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, J. I. Stone ed., (Honolulu: University of Hawaií Press, 2007).
Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005).
"The Ideology of Landscape and the Theater of State: Imperial Pilgrimage to Kumano," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies Vol. 24, No. 3-4 (Fall 1997): 347–374.212.854.5540
EDUCATION:
AB, Columbia University
PhD, Stanford University
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Pre-modern Japanese culture
Buddhism