Naohito Miura

Naohito Miura is a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, specializing in East Asian Religions with a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. His research focuses on Japanese religions, new religious movements, and the ethnographic study of religion. He received his BA in International Relations from Pomona College and MDiv from Harvard Divinity School.

His dissertation examines the transnational expansion of Sekai Meshia Kyo, a Japanese new religion founded by Okada Mokichi, through fieldwork and archival research conducted in Angola, Brazil, and Japan.