Background
At the time of Bloom’s birth, his mother had been a recent convert to a fundamentalist tradition of Christianity.
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Strategies for Modern Living: A commentary with the Text of the Tannisho
(Book by Alfred Bloom)
Book by Alfred Bloom
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The Life of Shinran Shonin: The Journey to Self-Acceptance
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Alfred Bloom
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After enlisting in the United States Army in 1944, Bloom studied Japanese at the University of Pennsylvania and performed his service in occupied Japan. Bloom began his academic life at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Bachelor, ThB) in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania from 1947 to 1951. He completed his theological training at Andover Newton Theological School (Bachelor's Degree, Master of Sacred Theology) in Newton, Massachusetts in 1953.
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Born 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bloom was the youngest child of a Jewish father. During this time he began to question, and then to abandon, the fundamentalist approach to the Bible which he had previously held. From 1959 to 1961, Bloom was Proctor for Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and Teaching Fellow in History of Religion, Harvard Divinity School.
Foreign a time, in 1961, he was lecturer in the History of religion at Newton Junior College in Newton, Massachusetts.
From 1961 to 1970, Bloom was Associate Professor of Religion, Department of religion at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Continuing his work at Manoa, he eventually took up the post of Professor of Religion there in 1974.
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