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Lecture at the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden): The Occult and the Revival of Mikkyō: The Religious Landscape of 1970s Japan (11 June)

A lecture by Sangyun Han, visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and PhD candidate at Tohoku University in Japan. This lecture focuses on the revival of esoteric Buddhism in postwar Japan. Considering both the Western ‘New Age’ trend and the Japanese ‘Occult Boom’, the speaker explores how occult-related ideas influenced the reevaluation and

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[Workshop] Esotericism and Japan: Recent Developments

Lecture at the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden): The Occult and the Revival of Mikkyō: The Religious Landscape of 1970s Japan (11 June)

HHP Workshop: Religion and the Occult in Modern Japan (June 21)

CFP: Esotericism and Global Visual Culture, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 5–6 October 2024

[Lecture]Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (22 Nov 2023, University of Tokyo)

[Lecture] Disciples of Hell: The History of Satanism (17 Nov 2023, Tohoku U)

Pedagogy and Esotericism (hybrid workshop, 20 September 2023)

Research workshop on Aleister Crowley (University of Tokyo)

Symposium about Yoshinaga Shin’ichi at the 31st Meeting of the Society for the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhist History (in japanese)

Workshop (in-person, in Japanese) on Recent trends in studies of esotericism and spirituality

East Asian Network for the Academic Study of Esotericism