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Kazuhisa Takeda is an assistant professor of the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D in Lain American Area Studies in 2006 from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Takeda’s research concerns the historical evolution of Native American Christianization in South America under Spanish rule, during the 16th to 18th centuries. He focuses particularly on Jesuit mission history, seeking to clarify the development of globalization since the "Discovery" of America in 1492, from the viewpoint of Christian expansion and its socio-cultural impact upon the indigenous South American peoples. Takeda has visited several countries since 1996, and as for Spanish speaking areas, he has acquired a great deal of experience. In Argentina in particular he lived in Buenos Aires an entire year, namely the whole of 2010, and he lived in the city of Seville in Spain during the year 2012-2013. Both these sojourns were financially supported by the postdoctoral research fellowship program of the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). Takeda also lived in the USA for six months in 2006 as a research fellow of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and he spent a month in 2009 as an academic visitor at Oxford University. In August 2006 Takeda participated as a speaker in the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825, held at Harvard University, where the topic was, “The Transit of Christianity, 1500-1825.” |
| Area |
Humanities |
| Discipline |
History |
| Research Field |
History of Europe and America |
| Keywords - Research Field |
Christianity, Missions, Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Latin America |
| Keywords - Discipline |
History of Christianity, Global History, History of Religion, Anthropological History |
| Date of Birth |
11/ 25/ 1977 |
| Languages Spoken |
Japanese, English, Spanish, Basic Portuguese |
Curriculum Vitae
Essay (letter of intention)
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