PD Dr. Ugo Dessi, M.A.

PD Dr. Ugo Dessi, M.A.

ugo.dessi@univie.ac.at

  • Ugo Dessì is adjunct professor (Privatdozent) at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Leipzig University (Germany)
  • Senior research fellow at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies (HCAS) "Multiple Secularities: Beyond the West, Beyond Modernity" at Leipzig University (Germany)
  • Honorary research associate at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town (South Africa). 

 

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He has published widely on Shin Buddhism, including Ethics and Society in Contemporary Shin Buddhism (LIT 2007), and on the interplay of Japanese Religions with global dynamics, including Japanese Religions and Globalization (Routledge 2013) and The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach (Routledge 2017). His last book Religioni e globalizzazione. Un’introduzione (Carocci 2019) is a critical introduction to the comparative study of religion under globalization. While at the Department of Religious Studies he is involved in the research project The Globalization of East Asian Religions in Comparative Perspective.