学位
修士（社会学・社会調査論）、博士（社会学）
学歴
英国ケント大学社会学部博士課程修了
英国ケント大学社会学部修士課程修了
専門分野
社会学
研究テーマ
近代の知識体系、ポストコロニアル理論、脱コロニアル思想、宗教概念論、社会学理論
所属学会
Critical Religion Association (http://criticalreligion.org/) 、European Sociological Association、International Sociological Association 、日本社会学会、North American Association for the Study of Religion
主な担当科目
社会学概説
主な業績
書籍：
‘Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing the Modern Myth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
私たち国際結婚しました（共著）（秀明大学出版、2019年）
The Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan: Shukyo and Temple Buddhism（Palgrave Macmillan、2018年）
マスクと日本人（秀明出版会、2012年）
「少子化」はリスクか（秀明出版会、2011年）
女性専用車両の社会学（秀明出版会、2009年）
主な学術論文：
“My Preliminary Journey through the World of J. Z. Smith”. In Remembering J. Z. Smith: A Career and its Consequence, edited by Emily D. Crews and Russell T. McCutcheon, pp. 144-150. （Sheffield: Equinox、2020年)
“The Harris Treaty (1858) and the Japanese Encounter with ‘Religion’”. In Critical Religion Reader, edited by Melanie Barbato, Cameron Montgomery and Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan. （Pembroke, Ontario, Canada: Studio Dreamshare Press、2020年)
“The Perry Expedition (1853-1854) and the Japanese Encounter with ‘Religion’”. In Critical Religion Reader, edited by Melanie Barbato, Cameron Montgomery and Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan.（Pembroke, Ontario, Canada: Studio Dreamshare Press、2020年)
“Problems of “Religion” in Japan, Part 2”. Religion Compass 14.11 (2020年)
“Problems of “Religion” in Japan, Part 1”. Religion Compass. 14.11 (2020年)
“Unintentionally Constructing ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Religions in Teaching Classical European Social Theories at a Japanese University”. In Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion, edited by Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian Hermann, 194-204. （Sheffield: Equinox 、2020年)
“Comparing ‘Religion’ and ‘Nonreligion’: Towards a Critique of Modernity”. Method and Theory in the Studies of Religion 32.4-5 : 455-463. (2020年)
““Religion” and “Politics”: A Japanese Case. Implicit Religion””. Implicit Religion 22(3-4): 413-428. (2020年)
“Historicizing the Category of “Religion” in Sociological Theories: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim”. Critical Research on Religion, 7(1), 24-37. （2019年）
“Contexualizing ‘Religion’ of Young Karl Max: A Preliminary Analysis”. Critical Research on Religion 5(2): 170-186. (2017年)
“American Imperialism and the Japanese Encounter with “Religion”: 1853-1858”. Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 82(2): 838-869. （2016年）
“Critical Reflections on the Religious-Secular Dichotomy in Japan”. In Making Religion, edited by Kocku von Stuckrad and Frans Wijsen. （Netherlands: Brill、2016年）
“Critical Reflections on the Category of Religion in Contemporary Sociological Discourse”. Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 28(1): 21-36.（2015年）
“Why do the Japanese Wear Masks?”. Electronic Journal of Japanese Studies, article 8 in 2014.
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol14/iss2/horii.html （2014年）
“Risk, ritual and health responsibilisation: Japan’s ‘safety blanket’ of surgical face mask-wearing”. Sociology of Health and Illness Vol. 38 issue 8 November 2012. （共著、2012年）
“Constructing sexual risk: ‘Chikan’, collapsing male authority and the emergence of women-only train carriages in Japan”. Health, Risk & Society Vol. 14, No. 1, February 2012, 41-55. （共著、2012年）
“Deprofessionalisation of Buddhist Priests in Contemporary Japan”. In Researching Twenty-first Century Japan: New Directions and Approaches for the Electronic Age, edited by Timothy Iles and Peter Matanle. （Lexington Books、2012年）
Deprofessionalisation of Buddhist priests: a socio-industrial study of a religious profession. Electronic Journal of Japanese Studies, article 2 in 2006.
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/2006/Horii.html（2006年）
学術ブログへの投稿：
Are There ‘Religion’ and ‘the Secular’ in Premodern Japan? NSRN Blog, 9 July 2018. https://nsrn.net/2018/07/09/are-there-religion-and-the-secular-in-premodern-japan/
Something I Learned from J.Z. Smith: Mitsutoshi Horii. Bulletin for the Study of Religion February 21, 2018. http://bulletin.equinoxpub.com/2018/02/something-i-learned-from-j-z-smith-mitsutoshi-horii/
The Harris Treaty (1858) and the Japanese Encounter to ‘Religion’, Critical Religion Association 14 May 2016 https://criticalreligion.org/2016/05/14/the-harris-treaty-1858-and-the-japanese-encounter-to-religion/
The Perry Expedition (1853-1854) and the Japanese Encounter with “Religion”, Critical Religion Association 18 January 2016 http://criticalreligion.org/2016/01/18/the-perry-expedition-1853-1854-and-the-japanese-encounter-with-religion/
‘Religion’ in Sociology, Critical Religion Association 12 August 2015. http://criticalreligion.org/2015/08/12/religion-in-sociology/
On ‘The Sacred Project of Sociology’, Critical Religion Association 4 May 2015. http://criticalreligion.org/2015/05/04/on-the-sacred-project-of-american-sociology/
A Sociology of Religion Category: A Japanese Case, Critical Religion Association 14 April 2014. http://criticalreligion.org/2014/04/14/a-sociology-of-religion-category-a-japanese-case/