Sunday, 9 April | 9:45
The Reiki Healing of Japanese Americans in 1930s-1940s Hawaii
Justin B. Stein, PhD (University of Toronto, Study of Religion), is a historian of Japanese spiritual and religious practices. His forthcoming book, Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, expected 2023) examines the historical production and development of Reiki out of transnational exchanges between Japan and the U.S. between the 1920s and the 1970s. He is on the faculty of Asian Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia. He has also practiced Reiki for over twenty years.
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