Helen Hardacre

Helen Hardacre (born May 20, 1949) is an American academic and Japanologist.  At Harvard University, she is the Reischauer Professor of Japanese Religions and Society.

Early life
Hardacre is the daughter of British historian Paul H. Hardacre. "Retired Vanderbilt professor, Paul Hardacre, passes away,"  Vanderbilt Hustler, June 18, 2010.

Her research was supported by a Gugghenheim fellowship.

Career
Hardacre was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1995 through 1998.Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS), Director 

Her research interests focused on religion in Japan and the history of Japan.Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA),  2005 Conference, keynote speaker bio notes 

Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Helen Hardacre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 80+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings WorldCat Identities :  Hardacre, Helen 1949-  

 Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan : Reiyūkai Kyōdan, 1983
 The Religion of Japan's Korean Minority : the Preservation of Ethnic Identity, 1984
 Kurozumikyō and the New Religions of Japan, 1985
 Maitreya, the Future Buddha, 1988
 Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan, 1988
 Shintō and the State, 1868-1988, 1989
 Asian Visions of Authority Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia, 1994
 New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan, 1997
 The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States, 1998
 Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: a Study of the Southern Kantō Region, using late Edo and early Meiji Gazetteers, 2002

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Other websites
  Hardacre, Helen, 1949-  at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) 

Category:1949 births
Category:Living people
Category:American Japanologists
Category:American historians