小林奈央子

KOBAYASHI Naoko is an Associate Professor at Aichi Gakuin University. She has extensively researched female ascetics practicing on Japan’s sacred mountains. She is the author of many articles on this topic. She co-edited with Kawahashi Noriko the special issue of Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, “Gendering Religious Practices in Japan” (vol. 44/1, 2017) and recently authored “Women, Case Study: Mountain Worship and Women” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions (2021).