| Project/Area Number |
22K01100
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 04030:Cultural anthropology and folklore-related
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
Slater David 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (70296888)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | archive / oral narrative / refugees / civic engagement / religious / spirituality |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
What is the role of personal religious spirituality as manifest across different religions in one of the most challenged populations on earth: refugee asylum seekers from the Global South? We will employ original approach, what we have call "spiritual life inquiry" methods of oral narrative research with 3 very different displaced populations now living in Tokyo (Ugandan Christians, Syrian Muslims and Burmese Buddhists). We will conduct semi-structured interviews using open-ended dialogical sessions we have developed with other refugee populations since 2017.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
1) We have fully revised the primary research product video on religious life of refugees. 2) We have added great to our core product, Refugee Voices Japan website, with more than 4 more profiles of more than 40,000 words and 30 video clips in both English and Japanese. 3) Joint publication with Fukuoka on the relationship between research and support. 4) A set of papers entitled with students of the project entitled "Giving students something worth researching: Involving undergraduate students in research at Sophia University" on the pedagogical foundations of project. 5) We have added almost 150 hours of new interview footage, with thousands of hours of transcription.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
We have reached and exceeded the goals that we have set for this project. In addition to finishing the extended video on religion for refugee asylum seekers (the primary focus of this last grant), we are happy to say that this has been shown at classrooms around the world. Our reputation has expanded to Europe where were were features on a special issue on the pedagogy of refugees and oral narrative archive. We have also been invited to submit a peer-reviewed journal on the relationship among scholarly work and civic support. These publication were not expected as our goal was primarily data collection and website dissemination so we were happy to be so fortunate.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The biggest challenges encountered was the high labor demands we brought on ourselves to produce materials that oriented not just to narrowly academic audiences but also to a wider, civic set of stakeholders. The style of writing, the use of different media (visual and video) and the dissemination are all different from what we are used to. But reaching these wider audience is one of the primary goals of our efforts, and we very much brought this challenge on to ourselves.
Our project is in excellent shape, as we have collected a lot of original data for future scholarly and civic dissemination, and have developed a reputation inside and beyond Japan that provides us with an much valued audience.
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