University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
69115 Heidelberg "
Germany

Email:

andreeva[at]asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4364

Fax:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4341

About Anna Andreeva

Anna Andreeva joined the project on Medicine and Religion in Premodern East Asia as a research fellow in April 2010. She has earned her doctorate at University of Cambridge in 2006. She spent a year at Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, before returning to Cambridge to take up a position of Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Japanese Religions at Girton College in 2007. Her research interests include the history of cultic sites, religious doctrines, rituals and practices of premodern Japan, particularly those related to Esoteric Buddhism and worship of native deities, kami. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on the religious history of Mt Miwa.

Her next project will be dedicated to cultural history of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing, while tracing the cross-cultural development and transmission of medical knowledge, particularly that related to female body and gender, in premodern Japan. This project will also investigate the porous boundaries between ritual and religious practices related to medical treatments and the emergence of medicine as a scientific discourse in early modern Japan.

Further information

Profile at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

Projects

• C11 Medicine and Religion
• Professorship Cultural Economic History

Curriculum vitae

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural and religious history of Japan and East Asia, sacred sites, pilgrimage, rituals, economies of the sacred, history of science and medicine

Cultural mobility, the nature of time and conceptual metaphors in their historical context.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010-2012   Research Fellow, Assistant Professor in Japanese History, Karl Jaspers Centre, University of Heidelberg

2007-2010  Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Japanese Religions, Girton College, University of Cambridge

2006-2007  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard

ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC POSTS

2011 Convener of Section on Religion and History of Ideas, European Association of Japanese Studies, Tallinn, Estonia

2009-2011 Member of the Council, British Association of Japanese Studies

2006-2009 Member, Association of Asian Studies (AAS)

2007-2009 Member, American Academy of Religion (AAR)

2005-2006 Coordinator, Postgraduate forum "East Asia in History" (Cambridge)

2003-present Member of European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)

2003-present External Member of the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions (CSJR), SOAS, University of London

Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge

Research Associate, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard

Selected publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2011 "The Karmic Origins of the Morning-Bear Mountain": preliminary research notes on "Asamayama engi", Pacific World 3/12 (Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, third series, no. 12, pp. 171-190)

2011 "Miwaryû no seiritsu 三輪流の成立 (The Formation of the Miwa Lineage). In "Chûsei shinwa, chûsei jingi, shintô no sekai" 中世神話・神祇、神道の世界 ( "Medieval Myths and Medieval Kami Worship"), ed. by Itô Satoshi. In "Chûsei bungaku to rinsetsu shogaku" 中世文学と隣接諸学, series on Medieval Literature and the Adjoining Disciplines (5 vols). (Tokyo: Chikurinsha, pp. 221-239)

2011 "The Origins of the Great Miwa Deity: The transformation of a sacred mountain in pre-modern Japan", Monumenta Nipponica 65/2: 245-295 

2011 "The Deity of Miwa and Tendai esoteric thought". In "Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia", eds. Charles Orzech, Hendrik Soerensen, Richard Payne. Handbook of Oriental Studies, China 24 (Brill: Leiden), pp. 854-862

2010 "Medieval Shinto: New Discoveries and Perspectives". In "Religion Compass", Volume 4, Issue 11, pp. 679-693. Blackwell Publishing Ltd (November 2010), permalink at Wiley online library

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2010.00243.x/abstract

2010 "The Origins of the Miwa Lineage". In "Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie" 16 (2006-2007), sp. ed. “Re-thinking Medieval Shinto: In homage to Allan Grapard”, pp. 71-90.

2009 "Miwaryû kankei shiryô ni mirareru mondaiten: Chûsei Shintô no tekusuto, hisetsu, girei wo chûshin ni" (Problems in the study of materials attributed to the Miwa lineage: texts, secret theories and rituals of Medieval Shinto). In "Global Stature of Japanese Religious Texts", ed. Abe Yasurô (Nagoya University: Graduate School of Letters, 2008), pp. 256-264

2006 "Saidaiji Monks and Esoteric Kami Worship at Ise and Miwa". In "Japanese Journal of Religious Studies" 33/2, pp. 349-377 (Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture)

http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/751.pdf