| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The research relied on archival research and fieldwork in Italy, Austria and Japan. Fieldwork in Italy was carried out in August-September and March; fieldwork in Japan in February, August and September. In Italy, I interviewed several exorcists and carried out participant observation during Roman Catholic exorcisms in Central Italy. I started a long-term collaboration especially with a possessed woman, who allowed me to follow her case and to publish about it. We are working on publishing her story together.
In Japan, fieldwork has focused mainly on Kenmi Jinja (Tokushima Pref). The fieldwork has given very good results both about (inugami) possession and ritual healing.
By interviewing also psychiatrists and specialist in biomedicine in both contexts, I understood the dynamics through which possession emerges in the interaction between medicine and religious healing.Research results were published internationally and I started working on a monograph to be published in 2019.
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