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Born in 1966 in Tokyo, Kasai has granted Ph.
D. at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University
of Tokyo, in 1999. After 7 years teaching experience at the Joetsu University
of Education (a national university in Niigata, Japan), he has accepted
this position as a research fellow in Center for Information on Religion.
He also teaches at Komazawa University and University of Sacred-Heart. In 2004, He has been in the United States as a visiting scholar of Boston University, Harvard University, and Univerisity of Southern California. His interest is on the historical
interaction between psychology and religion in general which reflects people's
spirit of the age. Many papers are written by him, including: "religiosity
in the intrapsychic space: a study of Alcoholic Anonymous," dissertation
to the University of Tokyo and published as Communality of Sobriety: People who believe in their recovery from alcoholism, Sekai-shiso sha, Kyoto. With Susumu Shimazono, Shinkichi Fukushima and Satoko Fujiwara, he edited Keywords for the Religious Studies, Yuhikaku, Tokyo. His "people who use the term 'spirituality'" in
Yasuo Yuasa, ed., Current situation of Spirituality, Jinbun-shoin, Kyoto is one of often quated paper of him; "Freudian
psychoanalytic theory of religion," Shimazono and Nishihira eds., Perspective
of the psychology of religion, University Press of Tokyo. |
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Naomi SATO
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Born in Kyoto 1971, completed Graduate School
of Letters at Kyoto University 2001, obtained Ph.D. by dissertation at
Kyoto University in 2003, Part-time Lecturer at Shuchiin University 2000-2005,
at Osaka University for Foreign Studies 2001-2005, at International Buddhist
University, Osaka from 2005.
Main Subject of Research: 1. rise of  Buddhism by studying 
Buddha who presides the Buddha-field in the East; 2. process of keeping
up and propagating Buddha's teaching after his death by studying the  ,
text of the last words of Buddha.
Doctoral Thesis: Comparative Study on Tibetan and Chinese Translations
of the  .
Main publication: 'Tibetan Sources of ', Bukkyo wo ikani manabuka,
compiled by Nippon Buddhist Research Association, Kyoto, 2001, 'Women and
the ', Journal of the History of Buddhism #41-1, 1998, etc. |
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