Researcher Database - AKAI TOSHIO | Kobe Gakuin University

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AKAI TOSHIO

Department / Course

Kobe Gakuin University The Faculty of Humanities and Sciences Department of Humanities

Job Professor

Academic background
1981/03 Degree Acquisition

Business career
2000/04 ～	Professor Kobe Gakuin University The Faculty of Humanities and Sciences Department of Humanities

Book and thesis
2024	Books	Empire, religion, and identity : modern South Asia and the global circulation of ideas (Co-authored)
2023/08	Papers	Chela's Body, a New Analysis of Early Years of Dublin Lodge, the Theosophical Society,pp.61-82
2020/06	Papers	The Mother's Four-Year Stay in Japan, a Research Note Mother India LXXIII (6-7),pp.112-117
2020	Books	The Cosmic Movement, Sources, Contexts, Impact,pp.431-452 (Co-authored)
2019/03	Papers	On the “Foreign Journals and Periodicals” in Matsugaoka Library, a Brief Survey of the Published Materials DT and Beatrice Suzuki Collected The Annual Report of Researches of the Public Interest Matsugaoka Bunko Foundation 33,pp.49-61
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Academic conference presentation
2022/09/10	Shinichi Yoshinaga's Study on Theosophy (Japanese Association for Religious Studies)
2022/06/05	COVID Restriction and Indian Cinema
2022/04/10	A Mystic’s Service either for the Nation or the World; the Instance When AE Decided to Leave Ireland (6th Annual Festival of AE Russell Appreciation Society, Lurgan)
2021/07/27	Where Japan’s mediumship intersected Western occultism (EASAS European Association for South Asian Studies)
2019/10/12	Tamijuro Kume and International Lodge Tokyo (2019 International Theosophical History Conference)
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Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
2023/04/01 ～ 2027/03/31	Media Development and Cinematic Features of Indian Films Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Present specialized field
Anglo-Irish Literature, Film Study, Area studies keyword(Anglo-Irish Literature、Film Study、Modern Fantasy、Theosophy、Indian Cinema)

Belonging society
	THE YEATS SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Activity in society
2018/11/17 ～ 2018/11/17	Scryabin and Theosophy
2017/12/09 ～ 2017/12/10	Workshop: “Asia, Buddhism, and Theosophy”
2017/03/21 ～ 2017/03/22	The Cosmic Movement: Origins, Contexts and Impact, Research Workshop of the Israeli Science Foundation and the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2017/03/07 ～ 2017/03/11	Modernity and Esoteric Networks Theosophy, Arts, Literature and Politics Conference & Round-table Workshop