Bertova Anna D.

Languages

• Russian (native)
• Japanese (fluent)
• English (fluent)

Education:

• 2013: PhD student, Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Philosophy, SPbSU. PhD thesis in philosophy: “Christianity in Japan: An Attempt of Historical and Religious Analysis”.
• 2008-2010: Research program in Japanese Religious Art, Nagoya university, Japan.
• 2005-2007: Graduate program (MA), Faculty of Asian and African Studies, SPbSU.
• 2001-2005: Undergraduate program (BA), Faculty of Asian and African Studies, SPbSU.

Professional positions:

• Since 2024: Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory of Social Development of Asian and African Countries, SPbSU.
• 2015-2023: Senior Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy, SPbSU.
• 2013-2015: Assistant, Institute of Philosophy, SPbSU.
• 2008-2015: Lecturer, Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg.
• 2005-2008: Methodologist, Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy, St. Petersburg.

Research interests:

• Christianity in Japan and in the Far East countries
• History and culture of the Far East countries
• Religious and Philosophical traditions of the Far East countries

Teaching:

• History of Japanese Culture
• Japanese Art
• Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Countries of the Far East
• Japanese Language

Publications: over 40, including 1 monograph.

• Christianity in Japan: An Attempt of Historical and Religious Analysis. St. Petersburg: Nauka publ., 2017. (in Russian)
• On the Question of the Ancestor Veneration in the Contemporary Japanese Catholic Church // Asiatica: Trudy po filosofii i kul’turam Vostoka. 2017. No. 11-2. P. 65-80. (in Russian)
• Sources of the Holiness Movement in Japan // Asiatica: Trudy po filosofii i kul’turam Vostoka. 2018. No. 12-1. P. 136-154. (in Russian)
• The Samurai and Christianity: On the Question of Social Affiliation of Japanese Christians in the Second Half of the 19^th Century // International Journal of Cultural Research. 2018. No. 4 (33). P. 132-146. (in Russian)
• The Holy Scripture Through the Eyes of the Japanese Underground Christians: The Book “Tenchi Hajimari-no Koto” (“The Beginning of Heaven and Earth”) // State, Religion, Church in Russia and Abroad. 2018. V. 36. No. 4. P. 255-276. (in Russian)
• Development of the Concept of the Kingdom of God in the Thought of Ebina Danjo // Voprosy Filosofii. 2018. No. 3. P. 187-196. (in Russian)
• Development of the Concept of the Spiritual Connection Between the Japanese and the Jews in Japanese Christian Organizations // Asiatica: Trudy po filosofii i kul’turam Vostoka. 2019. V. 13. No. 2. P. 141-158. (in Russian)
• Specific Features of Burial Rites in Modern Japanese Christianity // Studia Culturae. 2019. No. 42. P. 77-93. (in Russian)
• Life and Thought of Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) // Asiatica: Trudy po filosofii i kul’turam Vostoka. 2020. Vol. 14. P. No. 2. P. 143-162. (in Russian)
• Christianity and Family Relations in Japan at the End of the 19^th – beginning of the 20^th Century // Religiya i Obshchestvo na Vostoke. No. 5. P. 243-272. (in Russian)
• Philosophical Ideas of Yanaihara Tadao: Nationalism, Pacifism and the Concept of the “Just War” // Voprosy Filosofii. 2021. No. 2. P. 187-197. (in Russian)
• The Tsuda Family and the Development of Education in Japan in Meiji Period // Asiatica: Trudy po filosofii i kul’turam Vostoka. 2022. V. 16. No. 1. P. 101-117. (in Russian)
• Culture of “Cuteness” (Kawaii) and Japanese Religions // International Journal of Cultural Research. 2023. No. 1 (50). P. 87-102. (in Russian)
• Japanese Catholic Church Before and During WWII: Catechisms of 1936 and 1942 // State, Religion, Church in Russia and Abroad. 2023. V. 41. No. 2. P. 217-239. (in Russian)
• Polemics on the Incompatibility of Christianity with Patriotism in Japan at the End of the 19^th Century // Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies. 2023. V. 39. No. 2. P. 393-405. (in Russian)