Professor
Mark Mullins
Orcid identifier0000-0002-9017-0788
Professor - Japanese Studies
Asian Studies
Professor
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BIO
Mark R Mullins joined the University of Auckland as Professor of Japanese Studies in January 2013. Prior to this appointment, he was engaged in academic work in Japan for 27 years and taught at Shikoku Gakuin University, Meiji Gakuin University, and Sophia University, where he also served a three-year term as editor of Monumenta Nipponica. He completed his postgraduate studies in the sociology of religion and East Asian traditions at McMaster University (PhD 1985). His teaching and research focus is on the role of Japanese religions in modern societies both within and outside of Japan.
2024 Awarded the Pou Aronui Medal for Excellence in Humanities by the Royal Society Te Apārangi for a career of scholarship on religion in modern Japanese society, and decades of service that have positioned Aotearoa New Zealand at the forefront of global thinking on the sociology of religion.
2023 First Prize winner of the 2023 New Zealand Asian Studies Society Book Awards for Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, Vol. 16). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021.
2022 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies for Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, Vol. 16). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021.
2022 Awarded the He Kākā Tarahae: Faculty Individual Research Excellence Award for research programme in the sociology of Japanese religions.
2019 Awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, by the Japanese Government in recognition for his contribution to the development of the sociology of religion in Japan, research on Japan in New Zealand, and promotion of academic exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and New Zealand.
2016 Awarded Foreign Minister's Commendation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for contribution to and promotion of Japan-related research in New Zealand.
2005 Awarded 21st Joseph Roggendorf Book Award for the Japanese edition of Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements (University of Hawaii Press, 1998), published by Transview Press in Tokyo.
Responsibilities:
Director, Japan Studies Centre, New Zealand Asia Institute
Undergraduate Advisor, Asian Studies Programme
Committee/Professional groups/Services:
2022 - 2024 Member of the East Asia Advisory Board, Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C.
2022 - 2024 Advisor, Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality, Center on Religion in the Global East, Purdue University.
2019 - 2022 Executive Council Member, East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
2018 President, New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions
2017- Member of the Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Religion and Society, Korean Association for the Sociology of Religion
2017- Vice-President, New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions
2016- Editor, Book Series: Religion and Society in Asia Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan)
2016- Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Asian Christianity (Brill)
2013- Member of Advisory Board, Monumenta Nipponica (Sophia University)
2010-2012 Editor, Monumenta Nipponica: Studies in Japanese Culture (Sophia University)
1991 and 2007 Guest Co-editor, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
2004-2009 Associate Editor, Japanese Religions
1993-2005 Editorial Advisor, Echoes of Peace: Quarterly Bulletin of the Niwano Peace Foundation
2004-2016 Board Member, Japanese Association for Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise:
Sociology of Religion, Japanese religions and society, Christianity in Japan and East Asia, New Religious Movements, Religion-State Issues in Modern Japan
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND APPOINTMENTS
Professor - Japanese Studies
Faculty of Arts and Education, Asian Studies, New Zealand
Professor
Faculty of Arts and Education, Theol and Religious Studies, New Zealand
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor
The University of Auckland, Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts, New Zealand2013 - present
Senior Research Fellow
Leipzig University, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies (HCAS), Project: Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities", Leipzig, Germany1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2023
Professor, Theological and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts
University of Auckland, New ZealandJan 2019 - present
DEGREES
PhD (Religion and Society)
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada1985
MCS
Regent College, Vancouver, Canada1980
BA
New College, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States1977
LANGUAGES
Japanese
Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
FACULTY / INSTITUTE
Arts and Education
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
PhD/Doctoral Accredited Supervisor
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