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UGORETZ,Kaitlyn
 
Organization
Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture Assistant Professor
Title
Assistant Professor
Homepage
www.ugoretzresearch.org
Main Research Subjects
長期研究：グローバル化・ディジタル化ーグローバル神道コミュニティーについて
Major field
日本宗教、神道学、メディアとテクノロジー、ポップカルチャー、ディジタル宗教、人類学

Degree

  • 東アジア文化文学修士 (Master of Arts in East Asian Languages and Civilizations) ( 2017.5   ペンシルバニア大学 (University of Pennsylvania )

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    Master

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Religious studies  / Shinto, globalization, digital religion, popular culture

Education

  • ペンシルバニア大学 (University of Pennsylvania)   東アジア言語文化 (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

    - 2017.5

  • ペンシルバニア大学 (University of Pennsylvania)   東アジア言語文化 (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

    - 2017.5

Professional Memberships

  • American Academy of Religion, Association for Asian Studies

Committee Memberships

  •   American Academy of Religion, Association for Asian Studies  

       

Papers

  • Do Kentucky Kami Drink Bourbon? Exploring Parallel Glocalization in Global Shinto Offerings

    Religions   13 ( 3 )   1 - 15   2022.3

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    Publisher：MDPI  

    Scholars of Japanese religion have recently drawn attention to the global repositioning,
    “greening”, and international popularization of Shinto. However, research on Shinto ritual practice
    and material religion continues to focus predominantly on cases located within the borders of the
    Japanese state. This article explores the globalization of Shinto through transnational practitioners’
    strategic glocalization of everyday ritual practices outside of Japan. Drawing upon digital ethnographic fieldwork conducted in online Shinto communities, I examine three case studies centering on
    traditional ritual offerings made at the domestic altar (kamidana): rice, sake, and sakaki branches. I
    investigate how transnational Shinto communities hold in tension a multiplicity of particularistic
    understandings of Shinto locality and authenticity when it comes to domestic ritual practice. While
    relativistic approaches to glocalization locate the sacred and authentic in an archetypical or idealized form of Japanese tradition rooted in its environment, creolization and transformation valorize
    the particularities of one’s personal surroundings and circumstances. Examining these strategies
    alongside recent and historical cases in Shinto ritual at shrines within Japan, I propose that attending
    to processes of “parallel glocalization” helps to illuminate the quasi-fictive notion of the religious
    “homeland” and close the perceived gap in authenticity between ritual practices at home and abroad.

  • Demystifying Remote Research in Anthropology and Asian Studies

    Asia Pacific Perspectives   17 ( 1 )   52 - 71   2021.8

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    Physically cut off from locations and archives central to our work due to restrictions in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, area studies scholars must reimagine what constitutes rigorous and responsible research in their respective disciplines. The practice of remote research, however, is not a new one. Digital ethnography, an admittedly niche subdiscipline of anthropology, has long been grappling with the issues of how to value and conduct remote research. This essay explores a number of misconceptions regarding digital and remote research that may aid in contextualizing and coming to terms with the anxieties the broader scholarly community faces. I suggest that we strive in this moment not simply to adapt and adopt remote research as a temporary fix until we can resume business as usual, but to integrate it into our disciplinary frameworks as a legitimate and valuable mode of research.

  • Media and Technology

    Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions   2021.3

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  • Case Study—World-Wide Shintō: The Globalization of ‘Japanese’ Religion

    Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions   2021.3

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    Publisher：Bloomsbury Academic  

  • From Ise to the World in a Time of Pandemic

    PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies   17 ( 1 )   45 - 61   2021.1

  • China English: A Developing, Functional, and Legitimate World English Variety

    Sino-Platonic Papers   264   123 - 140   2016.5

  • Who Cares for the Care Workers?: A Case Study of the Feminization of Foreign Workers in Japan

    Wharton Asia Review   7 ( 2 )   12 - 22   2016.4

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Books

  • Digital Shinto Communities

    （ Role： Sole author）

    　The Database of Religious History  2021.11 

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    Book type：Dictionary, encyclopedia

MISC

  • Anime is packed with spirituality and gaining popularity among Gen Z

    Religion News Service   2022.10

  • Shinto religion has long been entangled with Japan’s politics – and Shinzo Abe was associated with many of its groups

    The Conversation   2022.7

  • Japan’s Shinto religion is going global and attracting online followers

    The Conversation   2022.2

  • Gagaku and Japanese Religions: An Exhibition

    2021.9

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    Publisher：Santa Barbara Museum of Art  

  • The untidiness of Marie Kondo’s eclectic spirituality

    Religion News Service   2021.8

  • ホワッツ神道？神道入門

    2021.7

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    Publisher：國學院大學博物館  

  • Fearful Resonances: Critiquing Arlington and American Civil Religion through the Yasukuni Problem

    Critical Asian Studies   2021.3

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Presentations

  • 現代神道のグローバル化

    南山サロン  2023.7  南山宗教文化研究所

  • Smashing the Silo: Avenues for Teaching the Public about Japan

    2023.2  Kyushu University IMAP

  • Patchwork Ethnography, Elusive Archives, and the Burdens of Risk and Care

    Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference  2023.2  Dr. Paula R. Curtis

  • Domesticating the Kami: Tracing Shinto’s Globalization Through Material Culture

    2023.1  University of Rochester

  • World-Wide Shinto

    2022.12  University of Pennsylvania

  • Why care about Japanese religions?

    American Academy of Religion Annual Conference  2022.11  Society for the Study of Japanese Religions

  • ‘Blessed by the YouTube Gods’: Theorizing the Deification of the YouTube algorithm and Sacred Economy of Attention

    American Academy of Religion Annual Conference  2022.11 

  • Animating Japanese Religion: Exploring Shinto through Pop Culture

    2022.10  Furman University

  • Shinto Shrines’ Digital Responses to Socially-Distanced Ritual

    Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)  2022.8 

  • Do We Have the Technology?: Living into Infrastructural Inequalities to Rebuild a Better Academy

    Digital Orientalist Annual Conference   2022.6  Digital Orientalist

  • The Academic Online: Making Asian Studies Digitally Present

    Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference  2022.3  Dr. Paula R. Curtis

  • Ethnography of Japanese Religions Online: Methods for Bridging Digital Divides

    2021.11  Kyushu University IMAP

  • Shinto in the Time of Coronavirus

    2021.10  Lawrence University

  • Anime and Pilgrimage Culture in Japan

    2021.10  Lawrence University

  • Animating Religion: Shinto in Japanese Popular Culture

    2021.10  Five College Center for East Asian Studies

  • Shinto: Exploring Japan’s ‘Way of the Kami

    2021.9  Five College Center for East Asian Studies

  • Worshipping the Kami at a Distance: Global Shinto and the COVID-19 Pandemic

    2021.6  German Institute for Japanese Studies

  • World-Wide Shinto

    2021.4  University of Pennsylvania

  • Modern Shinto

    2021.4  University of Cincinnati

  • World-Wide Shinto

    2021.4  North Carolina State University

  • Your Name and the Religion of Anime

    2021.4  University of North Carolina

  • Terra Japonica: Locating Sacred Nature in An Emerging Global Shinto Paradigm

    Syncopating Religion: Global Visions Through East and Southeast Asia Symposium  2021.4  University of California Humanities Research Initiative

  • Shinto Outside of Contemporary Japan

    2021.3  University of Pennsylvania

  • Hacking Fieldnotes: Using Scrible to Study Online Communities

    Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference  2021.3 

  • Applying Patchwork Ethnography to Research in Contemporary Japan: A Roundtable on Positionality, Networks, and ‘Piecing Together’ One’s Field

    Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies  2021.1 

  • Logging in to the Field: Tips and Tools for Digital Qualitative Research

    Research at a Distance: Japan Studies in an age of Covid-19 Workshop  2021.1  University of Melbourne

  • (Re)locating the Sacred: Examining the Transnational Production of Shintō Space

    Mapping the Territory: Religion, Place, and Space in Asian Humanities Symposium  2021.1  University of California Humanities Research Initiative

  • Altared Ontologies: Sacred Anxieties in the Glocalization of Shinto Traditions

    American Academy of Religion Annual Conference  2020.12 

  • Building Digital Shinto

    2020.10  Skidmore College

  • Shinto in the Time of Coronavirus: Japanese Religion Online During a Global Pandemic

    New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference  2020.10 

  • 国際神道信者の「伊勢」に対する感想

    ‘Ise and Japan’ Study Program Symposium  2020.3  皇學館大学

  • Drawing on Shinto? Online Shinto Communities’ Responses to the Religious in Hayao Miyazaki’s Anime

    American Academy of Religion Annual Conference  2019.11 

  • Authority, Access, Archive: Constructing the Digital Shinto Canon

    Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies  2019.10 

  • Domesticating Shinto: Materialities of Kami Worship Beyond Japan

    University of Pennsylvania Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia  2019.4 

  • World-Wide Shinto: Inventing a Global, Digital Religious Community

    New York Conference on Asian Studies  2018.9 

  • Characterizing the Barbarian: Chinese Exonyms and Eurasian Relations

    University of Pennsylvania Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia  2018.4 

  • Interrogating Indigeneity: Defining the Boundaries of Participation in Shinto

    Columbia University Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia  2017.2 

  • What is Indigeneity?: Questioning the Narrative Roots of Shinto

    "What Isn’t Shinto?" Symposium  2016.9  Dr. Jolyon Baraka Thomas

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Awards

  • Wilbur M. Fridell Memorial Award for the Study of Japanese Religions

    2021   University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Religious Studies  

  • New England Association for Asian Studies Conference Graduate Student Paper Prize

    2020   New England Association for Asian Studies  

Research Projects

  • World-Wide Shinto

    2023

    Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.)  P.E.O. Scholar Award 

  • Eat Pray Anime

    2022

    American Academic of Religion  Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant  

  • GAMING+ Project

    2021

    UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center  Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Graduate Collaborative Award 

  • GAMING+ Project

    2021

    UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies  UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies Mainstreaming Taiwan Studies Research Grant 

  • World-Wide Shinto

    2020

    University of California, Santa Barbara Graduate Division  Japan Foundation/UCSB Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award  

  • World-Wide Shinto

    2020

    Social Science Research Council  Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship  

  • World-Wide Shinto

    2019

    University of California, Santa Barbara Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies  UCSB Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies Summer Fieldwork Grant  

  • グローバル化・ディジタル化ーグローバル神道コミュニティーについて

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    博士論文は、ディジタルエスノグラフィーに通じて神道のグローバル化とオンライン神道コミュニティーの発展についてを研究しています。

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Other

  • 「Deep Drinks]というポッドキャストのインタビュー

    2023

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    研究についてのポッドキャストインタビュー

  • 発表ー“What Is Shinto?”

    2022

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    小中高の連携 (Greely Middle School, Cumberland, ME USA)

  • 「Beyond Japan]というポッドキャストのインタビュー

    2022

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    研究についてのポッドキャストインタビュー

  • 「Japanese History Hidden in Our Screens]というポッドキャストのインタビュー

    2022

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    研究についてのポッドキャストインタビュー

  • 「Springtide Research Institute]のインスタグラムインタビュー

    2022

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    研究についてのインスタグラムインタビュー

  • 「Japan Station]というポッドキャストのインタビュー

    2021

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    研究についてのポッドキャストインタビュー

  • 「Classical Ideas]というポッドキャストのインタビュー

    2021

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    研究についてのポッドキャストインタビュー

  • 発表ー"Philosophical Traditions of Ancient China"

    2019

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    小中高の連携 (Laguna Blanca School, Hope Ranch, CA USA)

  • As The Spirit Moves You: How Studio Ghibli Films Leave Room for A Range of Religious Interpretations

    2019

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    「Beyond the Tangles]という宗教に関するブログため研究についてのエッセイ

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