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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 2 February 2021 and 4 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Wind-up Winter. Peer reviewers: Editor9879.

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PORTRAIT OF KITAGAWA

Russian Wikipedia has a portrait of Daisuke Kitagawa, the brother of Joseph M., on its page. This is unfortunate. I couldn't locate a portrait of Joseph for class, but eventually found one. There is a photo-archive at the library of the University of Chicago. Here is a link to a search of Kitagawa images.

http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?keywords=kitagawa

I suggest that editors insert the following image of Kitagawa, taken when he was dean of the Divinity School ; I don't know what its copyright status is, but it certainly fits the noteworthy standard and it is verifiably the man.

http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/ucpa/series1/derivatives_series1/apf1-10252r.jpg

Matthew Baldwin (talk) 19:38, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Edits

I intend to add more to the brief introduction about Kitagawa's personal life. For example, in the official University of Chicago Divinity School publication (named Criterion), articles such as "Perfect in Dress and Address" by Nancy Auer Falk and H. Byron Earhart elaborate on Kitagawa's family (i.e. his father was an episcopal priest), Kitagawa's influences (i.e. William Rainey Harper), Kitagawa's opinions (i.e. he "reserved his harshest criticism for the agencies and policies charged to contend with refugees, and the racism" (Falk and Earhart, 16)), and Kitagawa's eventual death (i.e. he specified that at his funeral he would not allow eulogies). Another article in Criterion, titled "Vocation and Maturity", is a brief autobiographical account which includes Kitagawa's thoughts on what he was like as a child.

I intend to implement these changes by adding a section on the Wikipedia page titled: "Early Life", followed by "Dean of University of Chicago", followed by "Retirement", and ending with "Legacy and Scholarly Contributions".

In the legacy and scholarly contribution section, I would utilize sources such as (Ludwig, Theodore. Transitions and Transformations in the History of Religions: Essays in Honor of Joseph M. Kitagawa. E.J. Brill, 1980.) where they mention how one of his greatest accomplishments was his “interpretation of specific religious traditions in terms of the interplay between the universal and the particularistic dimensions of those traditions” (Ludwig, 12). I believe Ludwig's book to be a trustable source because it was edited by Joseph Kitagawa and Frank E. Reynolds (a respected history of religions professor/scholar at the University of Chicago). There are surely more ideas that he has pioneered, but I am currently just starting to explore this topic.

I plan to make these changes over the next 2-3 weeks, and would be grateful if other editors could weigh in on my proposed changes on this talk page or on my personal talk page.

Wind-up Winter (talk) 16:54, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]