Projects and publications
- Bachelet, Sébastien. 2025. The Adventure: Violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco. Manchester University Press.
- Hagan, Maria and Sébastien Bachelet. 2024. “Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco.” Antipode, 56: 1308-1328. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13019
- Baffelli, Erica. 2023. “Fear and the construction of minority religions in Japan.” Religion, State and Society 51 (3): 223-237 https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2023.2212579
- Baffelli, Erica. 2022. “Living Aum: Austerities, Emotion, and the Feeling Community of Former Aum Shinrikyō Member.” Nova Religio 25 (3): 7–31. 10.1525/nr.2022.25.3.7
- Gaitanidis, Ioannis. 2024. “The Co-constitution of Bad Religion and Unethical Sales: Fear at the Heart of Japan’s ‘Spiritual Sales’.” Implicit Religion 25 (3-4): 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.27205 [doi.org]
- Graf, Tim. 2021 “Japanese Temple Buddhism during COVID-19.” Bulletin
of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture 45: 21–47. https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/3/issue/45/article/164. - Majeed, Raamy. 2025. “National Humiliation: Emotion, Narrative, and Conflict.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1): 287-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12759.
- Majeed, Raamy. 2020. “The new LeDoux: Survival circuits and the surplus meaning of ‘fear’.” The Philosophical Quarterly 70 (281): 809-829. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa009.
- McLaughlin, Levi. Forthcoming. 2025. "Perennial Fears, Novel Responses: The Unification Church in Japan after the Abe Assassination." In Pekkanen, Robert J., Kenneth McElwain, and Daniel M. Smith, eds. Japan Decides 2025: The Japanese Lower House Election. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Schröer, Frederik. 2024. “Affective Entanglements: Human-Nonhuman Relations in Buddhist Ecologies of Feeling” Journal of Global Buddhism 25 (1): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.jgb.2024.3812.
- Schröer, Frederik and Laura Otis. 2024. “Feeling Environments: Emotions Beyond Human Interiority” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 49, (1): 138-58. https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2023.49.1.138 [doi.org].
- Fischer, Djio Juliette, Frederik Schröer, Saskia Denecke, Lawrence Murphy, and Simone Kühn. 2024. “Are We Afraid of the Woods? An Investigation of the Implicit and Explicit Fear Reactions to Forests.” Environmental Research 260: 119573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.119573.
- Zagaria, Valentina. 2019. “The Morally Fraught Harga: Migration Blame Games in a Tunisian Border Town.” The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 37 (2): 57-73. https://doi.org/10.3167/cja.2019.370205
- Watanabe, Chika. Forthcoming. Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness along the Ring of Fire. Stanford University Press.
Partners
- The University of Manchester (School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and School of Social Sciences)
- University of Oslo (Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
- University of Copenhagen (Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies)
Steering group
Erica Baffelli is Professor of Japanese Studies at The University of Manchester (UK). Her recent research projects focused on religion in contemporary Japan, religion and media, new and minority religions, religion, gender and violence, and Buddhism and emotions.
She currently PI on a Leverhulme Research Project on "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" (RPG-2023-030, 2023-2027).