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Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm

Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm is chair & associate professor of religion at Williams College. Josephson-Storm received his PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University in 2006 and has held visiting positions at Princeton University, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris and Ruhr Universität, Germany. He is the author of the award-winning The Invention of Religion in Japan (2012), The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity and the Birth of the Human Sciences (2017), and “Absolute Disruption: The Future of Theory after Postmodernism” (in progress).

Is this all there is

What it isn’t: Or, historical periodization by erasure

Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm·

January 24, 2018

“What epoch is this we are entering or have entered? What is this time? What time is it?” To answer,…

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Book introductions

The Myth of Disenchantment: An Introduction

Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm·

May 23, 2017

A great many theorists have argued that precisely what makes the modern world “modern” is that people no longer believe…

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The Modern Spirit of Asia

Modern spirits

Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm·

May 8, 2014

The Modern Spirit of Asia is like a brilliant pencil sketch for an uncompleted oil painting. Something inspiring appears in…

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