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Marcus Jacobus Teeuwen

Professor - Japan Studies
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Phone +47 22 85 67 61
Room 313 PAM
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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 P. A. Munchs hus 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Research interests

History of religion in Japan (with a focus on Shinto), social history, matsuri festivals

Tags: Japan, Japanese, Buddhism, Shinto

Publications

  • 2025 (forthcoming): “Saimon recitations: A medieval worldview? Two examples from Oku Mikawa.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.

    “On the place of ‘meaning’ in traditional festivals: The hanamatsuri of Oku Mikawa.” Asian Ethnology.

  • 2024: “Religion in Tokugawa Japan”. In The New Cambridge History of Japan, Vol II, pp. 443-477.

  • 2023: Kyoto’s Gion festival: A social history. London: Bloomsbury. 261 pages.

    Festivals in Asia: patronage, play, and piety, special issue, Religion 53/3, edited with Moumita Sen and Aike P. Rots.

  • 2021: “Shinto in the 1660s and 1670s: The Shrine Clauses of 1665 as an expression of Domain Shinto.” In Stefan Köck et al, eds, Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 151-163.

    “Faith as Authenticity: Kyoto’s Gion Festival in 2020.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 48/1, pp. 125-163.

  • 2020: Sacred heritage in Japan. Edited with Aike Rots. Routledge.

    Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident. With Kate W. Nakai and Fumiko Miyazaki. Columbia UP. 364 pages.

  • 2017: A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine capital. London: Bloomsbury. Co-authored with John Breen. 302 pp.

    Formations of the Secular in Japan. Special issue of Japan Review (30). Co-edited with Aike P. Rots.

  • 2014: Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: “An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard” by an Edo Samurai. Co-authored and co-edited with Kate W. Nakai. Columbia University Press. 473 pp.

  • 2013: Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments. Co-edited with Henk Blezer. Brill Academic Publishers. 290 pp.

  • 2012: Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period. Co-edited with Anna Beerens. Brill. 259 pp.

  • 2010: A New History of Shinto. Co-authored with John Breen. Wiley-Blackwell. 264 pp. (Translated into Italian, Lo Shinto: Una Nuova Storia, Roma: Ubaldini 2014)

  • 2006: Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen, eds., The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion, 398 pp., London and New York: Routledge.
  • 2005:  Shinto: Japans eldste myter, i serien Verdens Hellige Skrifter, utvalg, oversettelse og innledende essay av Mark Teeuwen, XL+140 sider, De norske Bokklubbene, Gyldendal.
  • 2003: Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli, eds., Buddhas and kami in Japan: Honji suijaku as a combinatory paradigm, vii+370 pp., London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. 
  • 1996: Watarai Shinto: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise, PhD thesis, 471 pages, Leiden: Research School CNWS 1996.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus; Kazuhiko, Yoshida; Rambelli, Fabio & Stone, Jacqueline (2026). Eigo to Nihongo de "shinbutsu shûgô" o saikô suru: eigoyaku o megutte. 0917818X. ISSN 0917-818X. 35, p. 49–80. doi: https:/nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/5/issue/357/article/2447. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2025). Prayer, Play, and Patronage in Festivals: An Alternative Approach to Oku-Mikawa's Hanamatsuri. Asian Ethnology. ISSN 1882-6865. 84(2), p. 383–404. doi: https:/asianethnology.scholasticahq.com/article/155121-prayer-play-and-patronage-in-festivals-an-alternative-approach-to-oku-mikawa-s-_hanamatsuri_. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2025). Saimon recitations: Two examples from Oku Mikawa. Japanese journal of religious studies. ISSN 0304-1042. 52, p. 33–78. doi: 10.18874/jjrs.52.2025.33-78. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2024). Religion in the Tokugawa period. In Howell, David L. (Eds.), The new Cambridge history of Japan volume II Early modern Japan in Asia and the world, c. 1580-1877. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108283748. p. 443–477. doi: 10.1017/9781108283748. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2023). Kyoto's Gion festival: a longue durée history of patronage, piety, and play. Religion. ISSN 0048-721X. 53(3), p. 554–575. doi: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211399. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus; Sen, Moumita & Rots, Aike Peter (2023). Festivals in Asia: patronage, play, and piety. Religion. ISSN 0048-721X. 53(3), p. 387–405. doi: 10.1080/0048721X.2023.2211395. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2022). Kyoto’s Gion Festival in Late Classical and Medieval Times: Actors, Legends, and Meanings. Religions. 13(6). doi: 10.3390/rel13060545. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2021). Faith as authenticity: Kyoto's Gion festival in 2020. Japanese journal of religious studies. ISSN 0304-1042. 48(1), p. 125–163. doi: 10.18874/jjrs.48.1.2021.125-163. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2021). Shinto in the 1660s and 1670s: The Shrine Clauses of 1665 as an Expression of Domain Shinto. In Köck, Stefan; Pickl-Kolaczia, Brigitte & Scheid, Bernhard (Ed.), Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350181069. p. 151–162. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Rots, Aike Peter (2020). Heritage-Making and the Transformation of Religion in Modern Japan. In Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Rots, Aike Peter (Ed.), Sacred Heritage in Japan. Routledge. ISSN 9780367217709. p. 1–17. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2020). On writing the history of Shinto. In Pye, Michael (Eds.), Exploring Shinto. Equinox Publishing. ISSN 9781781799598. p. 57–78. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2020). 'Gion'e yamahoko rengôkai kiroku' ni miru senji - senryôki no Gion matsuri: hendôki ni okeru toshi sairei no igi to kachi o kangaeru. Jinbun gakuho. ISSN 0386-8729. 115, p. 223–237. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Amaterasu Ômikami. In Silk, Jonathan A. (Eds.), Brill's Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Vol. II: Lives. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004299375. p. 923–929. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2018). Imperial Sea Magic? The Sea Kami and the Great Tasting (daijosai) at the Early Yamato Court. In Rambelli, Fabio (Eds.), The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350062856. p. 3–14. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Rots, Aike Peter (2017). Introduction: Formations of the secular in Japan. Japan Review. ISSN 0915-0986. 30, p. 3–20. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). Clashing models: ritual unity versus religious diversity. Japan Review. ISSN 0915-0986. 30, p. 39–62. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). Review article: Izumo, Ise, and modern Shinto. Japanese journal of religious studies. ISSN 0304-1042. 44(2), p. 325–332. doi: 10.18874/jjrs.44.2.2017.325-332. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). Shintō no gainenka to yūtopia. In Hishinuma, Tatsuya (Eds.), Shintō o kangaeru, Gendai Shisō 45-2. Seidosha. ISSN 9784791713363. p. 8–14. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). Buddhist modernities: modernism and its limits. In Havnevik, Hanna; Hüsken, Ute; Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus; Tikhonov, Vladimir & Wellens, Koen (Ed.), Buddhist Modernities: Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World. Routledge. ISSN 9781138687844. p. 1–12. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2015). The Laozi and the emergence of Shinto at Ise. In Richey, Jeffrey L. (Eds.), Daoism in Japan: Chinese traditions and their influence on Japanese religious culture. Routledge. ISSN 9781138786493. p. 103–126. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Nakai, Kate Wildman (2014). Buyô Inshi and His Times. In Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Nakai, Kate Wildman (Ed.), Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: "An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard" by an Edo Samurai. Columbia University Press. ISSN 9780231166447. p. 1–33. doi: 10.7312/columbia/9780231166447.003.0008. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2014). Japanese religion: a terminal patient? Kokusai shinpojūmu. ISSN 0915-2822. p. 243–246. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). Early modern secularism? Views on religion in Seji kenbunroku (1816). Japan Review. ISSN 0915-0986. 25, p. 3–20. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Blezer, Henk (2013). Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments. In Blezer, Henk & Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (Ed.), Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004231078. p. 1–28. doi: 10.1163/9789004255685_002. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). The Buddhist roots of Japanese nativism. In Blezer, Henk & Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (Ed.), Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004231078. p. 51–76. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). The Way of Heaven in 1816: Ideology or rhetoric? In Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Beerens, Anna (Ed.), Uncharted waters: Intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W.J. Boot. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004216730. p. 109–128. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Beerens, Anna (2012). Introduction: Aspects of intellectual life in Edo Japan. In Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Beerens, Anna (Ed.), Uncharted waters: Intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W.J. Boot. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004216730. p. 1–12. doi: 10.1163/9789004229013_002. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). What used to be called Shinto: The question of Japan's indigenous religion. In Friday, Karl F. (Eds.), Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850. Westview Press. ISSN 9780813344836. p. 66–76. Full text in Research Archive
  • Azegami, Naoki & Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Local shrines and the creation of "State Shinto". Religion. ISSN 0048-721X. 42(1), p. 63–85. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2011). Materialisert opplysning. Religiøse gjenstander som et vindu mot japansk buddhisme. In Naguib, Saphinaz Amal & Rogan, Bjarne (Ed.), Materiell kultur & kulturens materialitet. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270996308. p. 209–228. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2011). Shinto and Native Studies. In Heisig, James W.; Kasulis, Thomas P. & Maraldo, John C. (Ed.), Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. University of Hawai'i Press. ISSN 9780824835521. p. 457–466. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2010). Jindô to Shintô no seiritsu ni tsuite no hikaku kôsatsu. Nihon shisôshi kenkyû. ISSN 0386-8974. 42, p. 1–34. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2023). Kyoto's Gion festival: A social history. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350229921. 261 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Rots, Aike Peter (2020). Sacred Heritage in Japan. Routledge. ISBN 9780367217709. 210 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus; Miyazaki, Fumiko & Nakai, Kate Wildman (2020). Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231196901. 416 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Breen, John (2017). A social history of the Ise shrines: Divine capital. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474272797. 302 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Havnevik, Hanna; Hüsken, Ute; Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus; Tikhonov, Vladimir & Wellens, Koen (2017). Buddhist Modernities: Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World. Routledge. ISBN 9781138687844. 302 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Nakai, Kate Wildman (2014). Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: "An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard" by an Edo Samurai. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231166447. 473 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Breen, John (2014). Lo shinto - una nuova storia. Astrolabio. ISBN 9788834016671. 280 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Blezer, Henk & Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments. De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9789004231078. 290 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Beerens, Anna (2012). Uncharted waters: Intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W.J. Boot. De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9789004216730. Full text in Research Archive

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