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Handrio Nurhan

Boston University, United States

Handrio Nurhan is broadly interested in contemporary Buddhist movements in East and Southeast Asia. Trained in philosophy and now anthropology, he is currently researching on Japan’s largest modernist Buddhist movement, Soka Gakkai, through the lens of ethics, materiality, and identity. Whereas the movement has been mostly studied through focusing on modernist elements such as beliefs and social actions, Handrio is interested in how the role of material practices including powerful efficacious objects, profoundly affects the ethical constitution and identity of Soka Gakkai members in their day-to-day lives.

Besides academic research, Handrio is an ardent fan of opera and a collector of operatic tenor voices from the earliest recordings of Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza to Piotr Beczala and Juan Diego Flórez. Handrio is a tenor himself and can be heard at youtube.com/@nurhandrio

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