| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Women tend to constitute the majority of members in most Japanese religious organizations, where they extensively engage in relief and social welfare activities at a grassroots level. This research aimed to investigate women’s volunteer activities sponsored by Japanese religious organizations from a gender perspective, testing the hypothesis that religious volunteering works as a gateway for women’s expanded social participation, thus encouraging empowerment and democratization. Based on extensive field research, the framework for the analysis of the role of faith-based volunteering in fostering empowerment and democratization draws upon two analytical approaches:the Access Model theorized by Wisner et al.(2004);and the empowerment thesis (Kabeer 1999). The results show that Japanese religious civil society contributes to cultivating democratic habits and advancing leadership, also promoting gender equality and fostering women entrepreneurship in Japanese informal and formal economy.
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