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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I’ll try my hand at interpreting the UFO phenomenon soon.

Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

No one tells you about the silence that follows the publication of your book. The silence before reviews. It’s a bardo for sure.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Glad to see interest in Shugendo.

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Dana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

SSJR is running another book talk! Please join us in two weeks for @sdahl.bsky.social's talk. Register here: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Poster for upcoming virtual bookshop. Text:
THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF JAPANESE RELIGIONS PRESENTS
SHUGENDŌ AND TIME: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEWA SANZAN

A VIRTUAL BOOK TALK W/
DR. SHAYNE DAHL, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

IN THIS TALK, DR. DAHL DISCUSSES KEY THEMES IN HIS FORTHCOMING BOOK, THE SECRET WORLD OF SHUGENDŌ: SACRED MOUNTAINS AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING IN POST-DISASTER JAPAN (2025, UNC PRESS). DAHL MAKES THE CASE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING CONTEMPORARY SHUGENDŌ AND JAPANESE RELIGIONS MORE BROADLY. DR, DAHL ALSO FOCUSES ON THE THEORETICAL SALIENCE OF TIME AS EXPRESSED THROUGH HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN LOCAL TOURISM AND MOUNTAIN ASCETIC TRAINING PROGRAMS, DURING ANNUAL MOUNTAIN ENTRY RITUALS, AND IN EXISTENTIAL REFLECTION FACILITATED BY THE CULTURE AND PRACTICE OF SHUGENDŌ IN THE POST-DISASTER PERIOD. DAHL ARGUES THAT SACRED MOUNTAINS SUCH AS DEWA SANZAN EMBODY SPATIOTEMPORAL ALTERITY WITHIN CAPITALIST MODERNITY AS THEY PROVIDE PEOPLE LIVING IN AN ANXIOUS PRESENT WITH A SPACE TO REFLECT ON AND RECONNECT WITH THE PAST, TO REJUVENATE THEIR OVERWORKED LIVES IN THE PRESENT, AND PRAY FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR JAPAN.

TUE. NOV. 11
6 PM U.S. PACIFIC TIME
9 PM U.S. EASTERN TIME
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WED. NOV. 12
3 AM CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME
10 AM JAPAN TIME

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Happy to announce I’ll be an Assistant Professor of Anthropology with the University of Calgary from Aug. 1!

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Anyone else watch “Hot Spot” ( #Japan #Netflix show)? Hilarious but very subtle!

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 29/05/2025

Very grateful to everyone for getting us to 22K followers - thanks, all! We're proud to call Bluesky our new social media home. If you love what we do, share this to help us spread the word about the Japan you don't learn about in anime.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Hi everyone - I’m seeking a new role beginning July 1, 2025. Budget cuts have led to the termination of my position & I would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities, please send me a message or comment below 🌎 I’m open to roles in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Early reviews for my book, “The Secret World of Shugendo: Sacred Mountains and the Search for Meaning in Post-Disaster Japan,” (UNC Press) are coming in. Written over the course of 12 years. Expected to hit the shelves Fall 2025.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’ve come to really enjoy the experience of exam invigilation. It’s a special kind of quiet in the class on exam day, a deep meditation students experience as they process everything you’ve taught them. Connecting the dots into constellations, forming a paradigm/worldview of their own.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Is the hardest part about writing a book letting it go?

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The holidays will be spent writing…. but the glory will be great when the book arrives.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

After the marathon of teaching comes the “body shutdown”: The illnesses that waited, like snakes coiled in the grass while you taught all semester, timing their attack the moment you submit final grades.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

One of the final steps in editing a manuscript is to change all the “more recently” sections into a general past tense … …because a decade or more may have passed since you first wrote that line.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Wrapped up my last class on Western Civ with a small reminder … You Are Here

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

remember the reason for the season

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’ve literally had this comment in my course evals from when I taught “The Buddhist Tradition.”

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

An advertisement for the East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities 2025 4-day virtual workshop hosted by the UPenn Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So it begins … I expect it is already possible to train AI with all of the texts related to religious figures of the past. Is there already an AI Buddha?

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Is there a treaty related to the land where you now live? I live in Treaty 7.

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Are you teaching Popular Culture? If so, what are your most popular assignments?

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Hello! 👋 I’m an archaeologist who studies the last 5,000 years of human history across eastern North America! I work primarily in the American Southeast, from Southern Appalachia to the Coast, on Ancestral Muskogean, Spanish Colonial, and Gullah-Geechee #archaeology!

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Some students submitted a petition protesting my effort to invigilate their assignment (to prevent AI use). The petition was itself written by AI…

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The snow has fallen. 3 more weeks of teaching. The final push! I’ve been teaching “Western Civilization” this term. It’s been a trip! Students resonated well with the VR experience in the class!

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Looking for your next read? Check out these new releases 📚⤵️ And don't forget you can save 30% during our holiday sale with code 01UNCP30 at checkout ❄️ uncpressblog.com/2024/11/19/n...

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New This Week: November 19th - UNC Press Blog

Looking for a good read that will both entertain and educate? If so you've come to the right place. This week we have a history of the local story behind Brown v. Board and a book challenging one of A...

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Not sure I've ever witnessed more anticipation for an edited volume than for this one, which is finally out as of yesterday. I suspect it'll make a splash... uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/oceani...

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Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History

Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feed…

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

On the way to Chavin de Huantar in #Peru in 2007. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav%C3... #Archaeology #Christianity

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The Mormon Temple in Cardston, Alberta (population: 3700)

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

About 1.5 hours drive from where I live is a magical place called “Waterton National Park.” It’s so beautiful. Wouldn’t it be awesome to host a conference here? 😎

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Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Any other profs out there moonlighting as a Judo coach?

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I also co-edit a new book series @uncpress.bsky.social called InterConnections: The Global 20th Century with the fabulous team of @juliairwin.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social and @dgershenowitz.bsky.social uncpress.org/series/inter...

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InterConnections: The Global 20th Century - University of North Carolina Press

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Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I made a Japanese Studies starter pack! Film, literature, sociology, history, cultural studies, translation, academic and academic-adjacent. Please reply if you want to be added (or removed)! go.bsky.app/AXJLiEA

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