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Godart Gerard Rainier Clinton
Section
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Job title
Professor
Degree

  • Ｍ．Ａ（ルーヴェン・カトリック大学）

  • 修士（日本語・日本文化学）（大阪外国語大学）

  • Ｐｈ．Ｄ．（シカゴ大学）

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東北大学 国際日本研究 近代日本ゼミ

http://web.tohoku.ac.jp/modern-japan/

Research History 5

  • 2025/04 - Present
    Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies　Professor

  • 2018/04 - 2025/03
    Tohoku University　Graduate School of International Cultural Studies　Associate Professor

  • 2015/10 - 2018/03
    Hokkaido University　Modern Japan Studies Program　Lecturer

  • 2011 - 2015
    University of Southern California　Department of History　Assistant Professor

  • 2009 - 2011
    University of Cambridge & Needham Research Institute　Postdoctoral Researcher

Education 2

  • The University of Chicago　Department of History

    2004 - 2009

  • Osaka University of Foreign Studies (Now: Osaka University)　M.A. in Japanese Studies

    2002 - 2004

Professional Memberships 5

  • 宗教学会

    2020 - Present

  • 近代仏教研究会

    2015/06 - Present

  • 日本学研究会

    2020 -

  • Association for Asian Studies

  • American Historical Association

Research Interests 5

  • Military History

  • Intellectual History

  • History of Science

  • Japanese Religions

  • Modern Japanese History

Research Areas 1

  • Humanities & social sciences / History of thought /

Awards 1

  1. Fellowship, 2014-2015

    D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science in East-Asia

Papers 14

  1. Science and Religion

    Clinton Godar

    Matthew D. McMullen, Jolyon Baraka Thomas （編）The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, University of Hawai'i Press　167-181　2024/10

  2. ユートピアと帝国の狭間——小泉菊枝の『満州人の少女』と日蓮主義

    クリントン ゴダール

    伊東剛史、森田直子（編）『共感の感情史』、平凡社　253-277　2023/10

  3. 近代日本の進化論と宗教

    クリントン ゴダール

    『日本思想史学』　3-11　2022/09

  4. “On Buddhist Marriage, by Tanaka Chigaku” Invited Peer-reviewed

    G. Clinton Godart

    227-246　2021

  5. The Clash Between Nichirenism and Japanism: The East-Asia League Movement during the Japan-China War Invited

    Modern Buddhist Thought and Japanism　253-282　2020/09

  6. Future War and Future Peace after 1919: Ishiwara Kanji and the Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of World War I Invited Peer-reviewed

    Tosh Minohara, Evan Dawley (Eds), Beyond Versailles: Reverberations of the 1919 New Order in East-Asia” in Asia London Lexington Books

    227-245　2020/06

  7. The Reception of Evolutionary Theory Invited

    344-350　2018/08

  8. Teaching History and Religion of Modern Japan to Mixed-Classes of Japanese and Foreign Students at Hokkaido University

    Japan in the World, the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach December 2016 Symposium Proceedings　137-142　2016/12

  9. Herbert Spencer in Japan: Boom and Bust of A Theory (1868-1911) Invited Peer-reviewed

    Bernard Lightman (Ed.), Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist (Leiden: Brill, 2015)　56-77　2015/06

  10. Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity Rethinking Ishiwara Kanji's East Asia League Movement Peer-reviewed

    G. Clinton Godart

    JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES　42　(2)　235-274　2015

    ISSN： 0304-1042

  11. Tezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and Buddhism Peer-reviewed

    Mechademia (University of Minnesota Press)　34-47　2013/11

  12. Philosophy” or “Religion”? The Confrontation with Foreign Categories in Late Nineteenth Century Japan Peer-reviewed

    Journal of the History of Ideas　69　(1)　71-91　2008/01

  13. From moss animals of philosophy: Oka Asajiro, modern Japan's pioneer in the philosophy of biology and evolutionary theory

    Studies in Japanese philosophy　(4)　75-99　2007/11

    Publisher:

  14. Tracing the Circle of Truth: Inoue Enryō on the History of Philosophy and Buddhism Peer-reviewed

    The Eastern Buddhist　(36)　106-133　2004/12

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Books and Other Publications 2

  1. ダーウィン、仏教、神 : 近代日本の進化論と宗教

    Godart, G. Clinton, 碧海, 寿広

    人文書院　2020/12

    ISBN: 9784409041147

  2. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan

    GODART, Gerard Rainier Clinton

    Hawai'i University Press & The Weatherhead Institute at Columbia University　2017/01

Presentations 10

  1. "Without the Salvation of Women, No Living Faith in the Lotus Sutra" - Koizumi Kikue’s Nichirenism"

    G. Clinton Godart

    European Association of Japanese Studies　2021/08/26

  2. “Lotus of Steel: Nichirenism in the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy” Invited

    G. Clinton Godart

    International Symposium on Japanese Studies 2020　2020/02/07

  3. Women in Nichirenism and the East-Asia League Movement in the Early Showa Period

    G. Clinton Godart

    2019/11/02

  4. Religious Receptions of Darwinism in Modern Japan Invited

    G. Clinton Godart

    Second East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (EASSR)　2019/08/27

  5. Aspiring to Singularity: Nichirenist hopes for the Unification of Space, Gender, and Mind

    G. Clinton Godart

    Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Asia Conference　2019/07/01

  6. 「近代日本の東亜連盟運動と日蓮主義の再考」

    クリントン ゴダール

    第二回 南開大学－東北大学学術交流会国際日本学フォーラム　2018/09/21

  7. “Future War and "Future Peace after 1919: The Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of the First World War”

    G. Clinton Godart

    ICAS Conference, Chiang Mai (Thailand)　2017/07/22

  8. “Future War, "Future Peace after 1919: The Imperial Japanese Army in the Wake of the First World War”

    G. Clinton Godart

    European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) Conference

  9. “Nichirenist Navalism: Ogasawara Naganari, Nichiren Buddhism, and the Imperial Japanese Navy”

    G. Clinton Godart

    The Twentieth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)

  10. 海軍と日蓮主義：小笠原長生を中心にして

    クリントン ゴダール

    日本近代仏教史研究会研究大会

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Research Projects 1

  1. Transgressive Nichirenism: Transnationalism, Gender, Spirituality

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2019/04 - 2023/03

Media Coverage 1

  1. 進化論めぐる生存競争

    読売新聞

    2021/02/21

    Type: Newspaper, magazine