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Authored Books

Padoan, Tatsuma (2020) Towards a Semiotics of Pilgrimage: Ritual Space, Memory and Narration in Japan and Elsewhere. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Religion and Reason 56, Semiotics of Religion 1) (Forthcoming)

Book Chapters

Padoan, Tatsuma and Sedda, Franciscu (2018) 'Sémiotique et anthropologie.' In: Biglari, Amir and Roelens, Nathalie, (eds.), Sémiotique en interface. Paris: Éditions Kimé.

Padoan, Tatsuma (2015) 'Buddhism.' In: Laycock, Joseph P., (ed.), Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion Across Cultures. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, pp. 54-59.

Padoan, Tatsuma (2014) 'Hinter den Zeichen. Über Strategien der Verordnung und Verhandlung von Verhaltensregeln in der Tokioter U-Bahn.' In: Gleiter, Jörg H., (ed.), Symptom Design: Vom Zeigen und Sich-Zeigen der Dinge. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 183-209.

Padoan, Tatsuma (2012) 'Dei treni e dei riti. Politiche ferroviarie e memoria estetico-rituale nella Tokyo contemporanea [On Trains and Rites. Railway Policies and Aesthetic-Ritual Memory in Contemporary Tokyo].' In: Mangano, Dario and Mattozzi, Alvise, (eds.), La ricerca semiotica. Rome: Aracne, pp. 11-52.

Padoan, Tatsuma (2007) 'The Hybrid Power of the kami mandara. Polythetic Classifications and Anthropological Perspectives on the Combinatory Religion of Medieval Japan.' In: Shinto – In Search of Sincerity (Essays on Shinto, vol. 4). Tokyo: International Cultural Workshop, pp. 37-51.

Padoan, Tatsuma (2007) 'Sacred Economy and Transactional Religion: Dynamics of Power, Economics and Religion from Pre-modern to Contemporary Japanese Society.' In: Shinto – In Search of Sincerity (Essays on Shinto, vol. 4). Tokyo: International Cultural Workshop, pp. 6-15.

Journal Article

Padoan, Tatsuma (2014) 'Drawn by Images: Control, Subversion and Contamination in the Visual Discourse of Tokyo Metro.' Lexia: Journals of Semiotics, 17-18. pp. 579-599.

Padoan, Tatsuma (2008) 'Kami in Fabula: A Tentative Analysis of a Mediaeval Mythological Text.' SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions Newsletter (16-17). pp. 24-27.

Book Reviews

Padoan, Tatsuma (2012) 'Un pensiero tutto curve: su François Jullien [A Detour-Making Thought: On François Jullien].' Alfalibri (supplemento mensile di Alfabeta2) (17).