Allan Grapard

Allan Georges Grapard (born June 6, 1944, Normandy, France; died December 8, 2025, Hilo, Hawaii, United States ) was a French academic, historian and Japanologist.

Early life Grapard earned his Ph.D. at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.

Career In 1985, Grapard came to University of California, Santa Barbara as a visiting professor in Japanese religions; and in 1986, he was invited to join the faculty of the Religious Studies Department.

Today Grapard was Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies (EALCS) at the same institute. "Japanese religiosity is grounded in specific sites at which beliefs and practices were combined."

Japan's Ignored Cultural Revolution: the Separation of Shinto and Buddhist Divinities in Meiji (shimbutsu bunri) and a Case Study: Tonomine (1984) Kukai: la vérité finale des trois enseignements (1985) Voltaire and East Asia: a Few Reflections on the Nature of Humanism (1985) Lotus in the Mountain, Mountain in the Lotus: Rokugō kaizan Nimmon daibosatsu hongi (1986) The Protocol of the Gods: a Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History (1992) The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo (1992) Mountain Mandalas: Shugendō in Kyushu (2016)

Articles "Institution, Ritual, and Ideology: The Twenty-Two Shrine-Temple Multiplexes of Heian Japan." History of Religions, 27 (1988): 246-269