Philosopher
Jason Josephson Storm
Overview
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm (né Josephson) is an American academic, philosopher, social scientist, and author. He is currently Professor in the Department of Religion and chair in Science and Technology Studies at Williams College. He also holds affiliated positions in Asian studies and Comparative Literature at Williams College. Storm's research focuses on Japanese religions, European intellectual history from 1600 to the present, and theory in religious studies. His more recent work has discussed disenchantment and philosophy of social science.
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, The Invention of Religion in Japan, earned the 2013 "Distinguished Book Award" from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and was a finalist for the American Academy of Religion's "Best First Book" award in the History of Religions. His third book, Metamodernism: The Future of Theory, won the 2022 award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Constructive-Reflexive Studies) by the American Academy of Religion. Benjamin G. Robinson, a scholar of religion and race, has described Storm's work as "seminal."
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Philosophers who discussed Jason Josephson Storm
Ideas Jason Josephson Storm discusses
- Harvard Divinity School
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Analytic philosophy
- Philosophy of social science
- Korea
- Edward Said
- Modernity
- Max Weber
- Superstition
- Occult
- Boston
- Post-structuralism
- Science
- Sigmund Freud
- Stanford University
- Mysticism
- Brill Publishers
- Continental philosophy
- Secularization
- Philosophy Now
- Philosophy of science
- Natural science
- Disenchantment
- Western esotericism
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of language.