Jason Josephson Storm - Knowledge (XXG)

687:, which describes sociology itself in sociological terms. Reflexive Religious Studies addresses the way that "that academic social science produces feedback in culture in such a way that it produces greater coherence in the social sphere that it then studies." More specifically Reflexive Religious Studies "examine those societies in which the category “religion" and its entangled differentiations (e.g., the distinction between religion and the secular) have begun to function as concepts" and it describes how the academic study of religion "actually reverberates in the religious field, revitalizing and even producing religions." 668:

Building on ideas in his 2012 book, Storm has developed a trinaristic approach to examining the relationship between secularism, superstition, and religion that he argues is applicable more generally. This trinary contrasts to earlier social-scientific accounts of secularization, which tend to

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Storm has written three books and over thirty academic essays in English. He has also published articles in French and Japanese, and translated academic essays and primary sources from Japanese to English. His first book,

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and disenchantment as theoretical and sociological phenomena and argues that they have not been correlated in European history. According to Storm, these data challenge traditional definitions of

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presuppose a binary between religion and secularism. According to Storm, the trinaristic formulation may allow for a more refined theorization of secularism, secularization, and modernity.

499:, Storm expanded this argument to examine how Japanese thinkers in the Meiji era adopted Western categories of religion, science, and superstition. Storm examined the origins of 591:

in the social sciences. The book argues that social-scientific data do not support the idea of a widespread loss of belief in magic in the West. The book distinguishes between

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offered new intellectual-historical interpretations of sociological theorists commonly associated with disenchantment. The book argued that many of these thinkers, including

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and exclusive similarity, which Storm coined to describe Japanese methods of conceiving religious difference, have been applied in research on South Asian religions.

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in this light. The book also examined the confluence of Japanese religious thought, political theory, science, and philology in movements such as the

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Much of Storm's early writing on Japanese religions built on his doctoral research. This writing particularly examined how the categories of

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Larsen, Timothy (Fall 2019). "Featured Review:The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences".

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with "Critical Religion" or the "critical study of religion", an approach in religious studies that challenges the stability of

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won the prestigious book award for "Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion" (Constructive Reflexive Studies) from the

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Storm has also been a proponent of what he calls "Reflexive Religious Studies," inspired by the "reflexive sociology" of

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and theory in religious studies. Some of his work in this field seeks to extend and generalize concepts developed in

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made "major conceptual contributions" to what Schewel terms the "Construct Narrative" of the definition of religion.

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Japan. For example, the paper "When Buddhism became a 'Religion'," one of Storm's most cited papers according to

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devoted an issue to further discussing and applying Storm's idea in other subfields of religious studies.

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In his book introducing different concepts of religion, Benjamin Schewel claimed that Storm's work in

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won the 2022 award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Constructive-Reflexive Studies) by the

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Taming Demons: The Anti-Superstition Campaign and the Invention of Religion in Japan (1853–1920)

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Taming Demons: The Anti-Superstition Campaign and the Invention of Religion in Japan (1853–1920)

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from 1600 to the present, and theory in religious studies. His more recent work has discussed

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publication, Storm discussed the thesis and main arguments of the book in articles for

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