Mark Teeuwen

Mark J. Teeuwen (Marcus Jacobus Teeuwen, born 9 February 1966, Eindhoven) is a Dutch academic and Japanologist. He is an expert in Japanese religious practices, and he is a professor at the University of Oslo. In a 2002 essay called From Jindō to Shinto: A Concept Takes Shape, he traced the evolution of the term "Shinto" from the reconstructed pronunciation Jindō at the time of the Nihon Shoki until today, describing the changes its meaning has gone through.

Early life Teeuwen was awarded his MA at the University of Leiden in 1989. His earned a Ph.D. at Leiden in 1996.

Teeuwen's work is influenced by the writings of Toshio Kuroda.

Watarai Shintô: an Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise (1996) Nakatomi Harae Kunge: Purification and Enlightenment in Late-Heian Japan (1998) Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami (1999), with John Breen Buddhas and Kami in Japan 'honji suijaku' as a Combinatory Paradigm (2002) Tracing Shinto in the History of Kami Worship (2002), with Bernhard Scheid Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm (2002) Tracing Shinto in the History of Kami Worship (2002) Shinto, a Short History (2003) Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as Combinatory Paradigm (2003), with Fabio Rambelli Shinto: een geschiedenis van Japanse goden en heiligdommen (2004) The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006) A New History of Shinto (2010), with John Breen Kyoto's Gion Festival: A Social History (2023)

Articles "Comparative perspectives on the emergence of jindō and Shinto," Bulletin of SOAS, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2007, pp. 373–402. "Kokugaku vs. Nativism," Monumenta Nipponica 61–2, Summer 2006, pp. 227–24.