Marcus Jacobus Teeuwen

Professor - Japan Studies
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Ongoing research

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Tags: Japan, Japanese, Buddhism, Shintoism

Publications

  • Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen, eds., The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion, 398 pp., London and New York: 2006. (Mark Teeuwen, "Introduction: Japan's culture of secrecy from a comparative perspective", pp. 1-34; Mark Teeuwen, "Knowing vs. owning a secret: Secrecy in medieval Japan seen through the sokui kanjô enthronement unction", pp. 172-203.
  • Shinto: Japans eldste myter, i serien Verdens Hellige Skrifter, utvalg, oversettelse og innledende essay av Mark Teeuwen, XL+140 sider, De norske Bokklubbene, Gyldendal 2005.
  • Shinto: een geschiedenis van japanse goden en heiligdommen, 104 pp., Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2004.
  • Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli, eds., Buddhas and kami in Japan: Honji suijaku as a combinatory paradigm, vii+370 pp., RoutledgeCurzon, London and New York 2003. (Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli, “Introduction: combinatory religion and the honji suijaku paradigm in pre-modern Japan”, pp. 1-53; Mark Teeuwen, “The creation of a honji suijaku deity: Amaterasu as the Judge of the Dead”, pp. 115-144.)
  • Mark Teeuwen and Bernhard Scheid, eds., Tracing Shinto in the history of kami worship, 237 pp., special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 29-3/4, Fall 2002. (Mark Teeuwen, “From jindô to Shinto: A concept takes shape”, pp. 233-264.)
  • John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, eds., Shinto in history: Ways of the kami, 368 pp., Curzon Press and Hawai’i University Press, 2000. (Mark Teeuwen, “The kami in esoteric Buddhist thought and practice”, pp. 95-116.)
  • Mark Teeuwen & Hendrik van der Veere, Nakatomi Harae Kunge: Purification and Enlightenment in Late Heian Japan, monograph, vi+118 pages, iudicium verlag, München 1998.
  • Watarai Shinto: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise, 471 pages, Research School CNWS, Leiden 1996.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 (2022). Kyoto’s Gion Festival in Late Classical and Medieval Times: Actors, Legends, and Meanings. Religions. ISSN 2077-1444. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2020). On writing the history of Shinto. In Pye, Michael (Eds.), Exploring Shinto. Equinox Publishing. ISSN 9781781799598. p. 57–78.
  • 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.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Amaterasu Ômikami. In Silk, Jonathan A. (Eds.), Brill's Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Vol. II: Lives. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-90-04-29937-5. p. 923–929.
  • 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.
  • 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 & Rots, Aike Peter (2017). Introduction: Formations of the secular in Japan. Japan Review. ISSN 0915-0986. 30, p. 3–20.
  • 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). Shintō no gainenka to yūtopia. In Hishinuma, Tatsuya (Eds.), Shintō o kangaeru, Gendai Shisō 45-2. Seidosha. ISSN 9784791713363. p. 8–14.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Wildman Nakai, Kate (2014). Buyô Inshi and His Times. In Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Wildman Nakai, Kate (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.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). Early modern secularism? Views on religion in Seji kenbunroku (1816). Japan Review. ISSN 0915-0986. 25, p. 3–20.
  • 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. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004231078. p. 1–28. doi: 10.1163/9789004255685_002.
  • 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. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004231078. p. 51–76.
  • Azegami, Naoki & Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Local shrines and the creation of "State Shinto". Religion. ISSN 0048-721X. 42(1), p. 63–85.
  • 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 978-0-8133-4483-6. p. 66–76.
  • 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. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004216730. p. 109–128.
  • 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. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004216730. p. 1–12. doi: 10.1163/9789004229013_002.
  • 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.
  • 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 978-82-7099-630-8. p. 209–228.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2010). Jindô to Shintô no seiritsu ni tsuite no hikaku kôsatsu. Nihon shisôshi kenkyû. ISSN 0386-8974. 42, p. 1–34.

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  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2023). Kyoto's Gion festival: A social history. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350229921. 261 p.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Rots, Aike Peter (2020). Sacred Heritage in Japan. Routledge. ISBN 9780367217709. 210 p.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus; Miyazaki, Fumiko & Wildman Nakai, Kate (2020). Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231196901. 416 p.
  • 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.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Breen, John (2017). A social history of the Ise shrines: Divine capital. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474272797. 302 p.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Breen, John (2014). Lo shinto - una nuova storia. Astrolabio. ISBN 9788834016671. 280 p.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Wildman Nakai, Kate (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.
  • Blezer, Henk & Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). Buddhism and Nativism: Framing Identity Discourse in Buddhist Environments. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004231078. 290 p.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Beerens, Anna (2012). Uncharted waters: Intellectual life in the Edo period. Essays in honour of W.J. Boot. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004216730.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Breen, John (2009). A new history of Shinto. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405155151. 264 p.

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  • Heide, Eldar & Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2023). 49. Kunne Danmark gjeninnført heidendomen i 1864? Samtale om åsatru, shinto og Japan 1868 med historikar Mark Teeuwen. [Radio]. Podkasten Tru og meining i gammal tid. https://pod.link/1635.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2023). Hanamatsuri: A late-medieval rural festival and its Edo-period transformation.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2023). Matsuri in depopulating Japan: What is keeping so many of them alive?
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2023). Shinto and Buddhism. In Silk, Jonathan A. (Eds.), Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, vol. IV, History: Central and East Asia. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004546752. p. 537–551.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2022). Crocodiles in early imperial mythohistory? The riddle of the ancient wani.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2022). Review: Yoshida Kazuhiko, ed., Shinbutsu yûgô no Higashi Ajia shi. Japanese journal of religious studies. ISSN 0304-1042. 49(1), p. 151–156.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2021). From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, "Kokugaku," and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Gideon Fujiwara (review). Monumenta Nipponica. ISSN 0027-0741. 76(2), p. 382–385.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2021). The 2020 Gion festival: re-inventing authenticity.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2020). Kyoto's Gion float parade as heritage: between culture, religion, and faith. In Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus & Rots, Aike Peter (Ed.), Sacred Heritage in Japan. Routledge. ISSN 9780367217709. p. 134–158.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. ISSN 0073-0548. 79(1/2), p. 335–344.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Religion and the secular in Edo-period Japan.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Crucifying Christians and burning books -- Osaka, 1829.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). When faith becomes heritage -- and ceases to be religion?
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Heritage policies and the separation of state and religion in Japan: Principles, practice, and effects.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Kindai no kiki o norikoeta yamahoko junkō.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Keihan Kirishitan jiken to yōjutsu: yakunin no atsui me to sameta me.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2019). Christian sorcerers crucified: Reconsidering the Keihan Kirishitan incident of 1827-29.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2018). Controlling laypeople's faith, or controlling priests? On the 1665 Shrine Clauses and the Ise Shrines.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2018). Toshi sairei no sei to zoku: Kyōto no Gion matsuri to seikyō bunri.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2018). Minzoku shūkyō no gainenka.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2018). Buddhism and the administration of faith in Edo Japan.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). How to write Japanese in Chinese.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). Christians in the Kansai, 1829: outline and sources.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). The languages of Japan: Classical and medieval views on words and writing.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2017). The quest for the primordial Script of the Gods in early modern Japan.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2016). Was the classical Great Tasting (Daijōsai) a sea ritual?
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2016). Review, "The Greatest Problem": Religion and State Formation in Meiji Japan by Trent E. Maxey. Journal of Japanese Studies. ISSN 0095-6848. 42(2), p. 412–417.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2016). 混沌の始めを守るー度会行忠の混沌論と徳政 (Konton no hajime o mamoru: Watarai Yukitada no kontonron to tokusei). In Breen, John (Eds.), Hen'yō suru seichi Ise (Ise: historical reconstructions of a sacred site). Shibunkaku Shuppan. ISSN 9784784218363. p. 123–134.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2016). Amaterasu: Kami fluidity in ancient, medieval, and early modern Japan.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2015). Esben Andreasen and Jørn Borup, Japansk religion. Journal of Religion in Japan. ISSN 2211-8330. 4(2-3), p. 281–284.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2015). 1827-29: Christians in the Kansai!
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2015). The Ise shrines: Meanings, agents, and business models.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2015). Review: Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603-1912. Monumenta Nipponica. ISSN 0027-0741. 70(1), p. 135–141.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2015). Objectification and the logic of the gift.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2015). “Shinto secular,” or religious Shinto nationalism?
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2014). Review: A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics, by Fabio Rambelli. Monumenta Nipponica. ISSN 0027-0741. 69(2), p. 259–263.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2014). Japanese religion: a terminal patient? Kokusai shinpojūmu. ISSN 0915-2822. p. 243–246.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2014). Edo period secularism?
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2014). Religion and its antonyms in Meiji Japan.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2014). Laozi and the emergence of Shinto at Ise.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). Shogun: samurai-regimer gjennom tidene.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). The reordering of the Ise shrines in early Edo.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2013). Early Ise and the origin of the sengû system.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Nation, religion and identity according to a late-Edo samurai.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Japanese religion -- a terminal patient?
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Premodern secularism? A samurai's views on Buddhism and the Way of Heaven.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Restoring historicity to Shinto: The case of Ise.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Ôkuni Takamasa: Internationalizing Japan by Converting the West.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2012). Abstinence Princess Possessed: A "New Religion" in mid-Heian Ise?
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2011). The touchy sun-goddess of classical Ise, in myth and ritual.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2011). Shinto. In Juergensmeyer, Mark & Roof, Wade Clark (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Sage Publications. ISSN 9780761927297.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2011). The bizarre origination myth of the Ise shrines.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2011). Okuni Takamasa: The Divine Principle. In Heisig, James W.; Kasulis, Thomas P. & Maraldo, John C. (Ed.), Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. University of Hawai'i Press. ISSN 9780824835521. p. 523–535.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2010). Rethinking Medieval Shinto. Special issue, The Book Asia Extreme-16 (2006-2007). Japanese journal of religious studies. ISSN 0304-1042. 37(2), p. 389–U336.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2010). Priests, money and women: Religion in Seji kenbunroku. The Netherlands-Japan Review. 2.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2010). "On the Tôkawa riverbank, we turned our faces towards Amaterasu and did worship": The origins of the Ise shrines.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2009). Forget India -- Buddhism started in Japan.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2009). Comparative perspectives on secrecy.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2009). Priests, money and women: religion in Seji Kenbunroku.
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2009). Hikaku jindôron e no izanai (The comparative study of "jindô").
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2009). Inseiki no Ise (The Ise shrines in the Insei period).
  • Teeuwen, Marcus Jacobus (2014). Oxford Bibliographies: Buddhism and Shinto. Oxford University Press.

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