James Carter Dobbins (1949– ) is an American academic,
Japanologist
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and professor of religion and East Asian studies at
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of highe ...
in
Oberlin, Ohio
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.
Early life
In 1971, Dobbins was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree at
Rhodes College
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. He earned a Master of Arts at
Yale University
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in 1976; and was granted a Ph.D. at Yale in 1984.
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faculty bio
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Career
Dobbins is the James H Fairchild Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Dobbins, OCLC
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encompasses roughly 8 works in 20+ publications in 3 languages and 700+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities
Dobbins, James C. 1949-
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* ''The Emergence of Orthodoxy: a Historical Study of Heresy in the Early Jōdo Shinshū'' (1984)
* ''From Inspiration to Institution: The Rise of Sectarian Identity in Jōdo shinshū'' (1986)
* ''Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan (1989)
* 恵信尼の書簡: 仏教に生きた中世の女性 (1989)
* ''The Legacy of Kuroda Toshio'' (1996)
* ''Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan'' (2004)
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* "Women's Birth in Pure Land as Women: Intimations from the Letters of Eshinni," ''The Eastern Buddhist,'' Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 108-22.
* "The Biography of Shinran: Apotheosis of a Japanese Buddhist Visionary," ''History of Religions,'' Vol. 30, No. 2 (November 1990), pp. 179-96.
* "From Inspiration to Institution: The Rise of Sectarian Identity in Jodo Shinsho," ''Monumenta Nipponica,'' Vol. 41, No. 3 (Autumn 1986), pp. 330–43.
Notes
Historians of Japan
American Japanologists
Living people
1949 births
American religion academics
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