Helen Hardacre

 ( 1949 Births ) 

In 1980, she began her academic career at Princeton University's Department of Religion and taught there until 1989. She then spent two years at the School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia. She then moved to Harvard in 1992 and stayed there since then. She is currently the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at the Departement of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University.

She was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1995 through 1998.RIJS, Director Her interests include Japanese society and religion and the ramifications of potential constitutional amendments on the future of religion in Japan.Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA), 2005 Conference, keynote speaker bio notes

She, like her father, a Los Angeles-born historian of Britain, "Retired Vanderbilt professor, Paul Hardacre, passes away," Vanderbilt Hustler, June 18, 2010. would be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (2003). Guggenheim fellows, Paul H. Hardacre (1957), Helen Hardacre (2003) In 2014, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018, she awarded the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Government of Japan,

• Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan : Reiyūkai Kyōdan (1983)
• The Religion of Japan's Korean Minority : the Preservation of Ethnic Identity (1984)
• Kurozumikyō and the New Religions of Japan (1985)
• Maitreya, the Future Buddha (1988)
• Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan (1988)
• Shintō and the State, 1868-1988 (1989)
• Asian Visions of Authority Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia (1994)
• New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (1997)
• The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States (1998)
• Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: a Study of the Southern Kantō Region, using late Edo and early Meiji Gazetteers (2002)
• Shinto: A History (2017)

• Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (2018)

• Ambros, Barbara and Duncan Williams with Regan E. Murphy (2009). " Special Issue Honoring Helen Hardacre," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 36/1: 1–9.