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Biography
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John K. Nelson
Associate Professor: Theology and Religious Studies
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John Nelson is an Associate Professor of East Asian religions in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco. He also serves as Director of the Asian Studies degree program at USF. Nelson is the author of two books on Shinto in contemporary Japan (A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine [1996], and Enduring Identities: the Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan [2000], numerous articles, and has produced two short documentary videos, "Spirits of the State: Japan's Yasukuni Shrine" (2005) and "Japan's Rituals of Remembrance: 50 Years after the Pacific War" (1997).
He has most recently received extended research fellowships from the Japan Foundation (2006), as well as the the Social Science Research Council, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Niwano Foundation. He spent the fall of 2006 on academic leave in Japan researching Buddhist temple and household altars, as well as socially engaged Buddhism at the grassroots level.
As a cultural anthropologist, Nelson's research and publications explore the interaction between religion and politics in East Asia, with a current emphasis on rapid social change and the use of religion as a resource for making sense of contemporary life. He is also interested in transnationalism, constructions of gender and cultural identity, social memory, and visual anthropology and culture.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5093
Fax: (415) 422-5356
Email: nelsonj@usfca.edu
Office: KA 159
Office Hours: Monday, 10:30am-11:00am, 1:30pm-3:30pm and by appt.
John Nelson CV John Nelson Publications
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