Several weeks back after my Twitter thread on Kondō Marie exploded, I spoke with Tristan Grunow about the KonMari phenomenon and why I think people miss something important when they reduce her tidying method to her “Shintō roots” or describe it as “Shintō animism.”
Read MoreRecently I had the opportunity to sit down with Tristan Grunow of UBC to talk with him about religious responses to the Meiji political transition. In a conversation that hinges on the keyword anxiety, we talked about…
Read MoreThe last few weeks I’ve had a lot of engagement on Twitter with a thread I posted on January 17 about reactions to Kondō Marie’s hit show Tidying Up. I’m posting the thread below, and I’ve written up a longer piece that just went live at the Marginalia Review of Books.
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