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gion at Florida State University, teaching Japanese religions. Her research focus is the social
history of knowledge in Heian and Kamakura Japan, centering on the intersection of religion and
science.
Lee Butler is an independent scholar of late medieval and early modern Japan. His early work cen-
tered on the place of Japan’s imperial court during the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and
resulted in the monograph Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680: Resilience and Renewal
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William E. Deal holds a joint appointment in Cognitive Science and Religious Studies at Case
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study of religion, the cognitive science of religion and ethics, comparative religious ethics, and
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David EasonJT"TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPSJOUIF$PMMFHFPG'PSFJHO4UVEJFTBU,BOTBJ(BJEBJ6OJWFS-
sity. His main area of research concerns late medieval and early modern legal and cultural history
with a focus on conflict and dispute resolution. He received his Doctorate in History from the
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Century” and is currently at work on a larger study that examines the interplay between legal
codes, violence, and emotional rhetoric in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth- century Japan.
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demic Title. His current research traces the history of Japanese tea from its origins in the late 700s
until the present, examining how the cultivar was farmed, exchanged, and received into Japanese
society. He currently resides in Cape Town, South Africa.
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