Department of Religioius Studies University of Missouri Department of Religious Studies

Edward Drott

Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: East Asian Religions
Email: drotte@missouri.edu

I received my Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. My research examines the role of the body in East Asian religion and religion's role in structuring the experience of the body. I am particularly interested in the nexus of religious and medical knowledge in pre-modern China and Japan. In 2002 I was awarded a fellowship by the Japanese Ministry of Education allowing me to conduct research at Kyoto University for eighteen months. In 2004 and 2005, I served as an instructor for the Antioch Buddhist Studies program in Kyoto. I spent the 2006-2007 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. From 2007 to 2009 I was a visiting member of the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. I am currently working on a manuscript based on my dissertation, which explores how religious ideologies and practices helped shape the experience of aging in medieval Japan.

Teaching

Religions of China and Japan
Modern Perspectives in the Study of Religion
The Body and Healing in Asian Religions


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