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Jørn Borup (1966-)

Jørn Borup is a scholar of religion specializing in Buddhism. He earned his Ph.D. with a project on contemporary Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism (published by Brill in a revised version), and has since then done research on Zen and spirituality, Pure Land and secularization and Soka Gakkai and business. Buddhism in the West has been another major focus with projects on transnational/diaspora Buddhism (Japanese Americans in Hawaii and Vietnamese in Denmark) and 10 years of mapping Buddhism in Denmark. He has participated in cooperative research projects on modern Buddhism, religious diversity, and the circulations of religious ideas and practices between East and West ('Eastspirit'). He is mainly interested in contemporary religion using sociological and anthropological methods, but as a trained historian of religion he is also including textual studies and historical perspectives. He is based in Denmark as an associate professor at the Dept. of the Study of Religion at Aarhus University, but takes any opportunity to go to Japan (and Asia) for fieldwork.
https://au.academia.edu/jornBorup

Selected publications in English

Zen and the Art of Inverting Orientalism: Religious Studies and Genealogical Networks
by Jørn Borup
In: New Approches to the Study of Religion, eds. Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne,
Berlin: Verlag de Gruyter, 2004, Volume 1, Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, pp. 451-487.

 

Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism - Myoshinji, a living religion
by Jørn Borup
Brill 2008, based on previous Ph.D. dissertation

 

Contemporary Buddhist priests and clergy
by Jørn Borup
In: Inken Prohl and John Nelson (eds.) Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions 2012, pp: 107-132.

 

Easternization of the East? Zen and Spirituality as Distinct Cultural Narratives in Japan
by Jørn Borup
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015, Vol.16, pp.70-93

 

Branding Buddha - Mediatized and Commodified Buddhism as Cultural Narrative
by Jørn Borup
Journal of Global Buddhism, 2016, Vol.17, pp.41-55

 

From Elite Zen to Popular Zen: Readings of Text and Practice in Japan and the West
by Jørn Borup