IAHR-WSN

This network has been founded in 2006 by IAHR Past President Rosalind I. J. Hackett and former IAHR Executive Committee member Morny Joy to provide a forum for women in Religious Studies throughout the world to be in contact with one another.

Women Scholars Network

Steering Committee

Noriko Kawahashi

Noriko Kawahashi

Nagoya Institute of Technology
Nagoya, Aichi,
Japan  466-8555

E-mail: kawahashi.noriko@nitech.ac.jp

 Areas of Specialization

  • Buddhism and women in contemporary Japan 

Areas of Interest

  • Religion and postcolonial feminism
  • Okinawan religions 

Major Relevant Publications

  • Noriko Kawahashi, "Gender Issues in Japanese Religions," in Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, Swanson and Chilson eds., U. of Hawaii Press, 2006
  • Noriko Kawahashi, "Japanese folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues," in A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, Jennifer Robertson ed., Blackwell, 2005
  • Noriko Kawahashi, "Gender and Japanese Religions", in Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., Macmillan Reference, 2005
  • Noriko Kawahashi and Kuroki Masako, eds., Special Issue on "Feminism and Religion in Contemporary Japan," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30/3-4, 2003
  • Noriko Kawahashi, Kayoko Komatsu, and Masako Kuroki, "Gendering Religious Studies: Reconstructing Religion and Gender Studies in Japan," in Gender, Religion, and Education in a Chaotic postmodern World, Gross, Davies, and Diab eds., Springer, 2013

Other Information of Interest

  • Member of the Board of Advisors of the International Institute for the Study of Religion in Tokyo.
  • Co-founder of the Tokai-Kanto Network for Women and Buddhism.