• Search Research Projects
  • Search Researchers
  • How to Use
  1. Back to project page

1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Religio-historical Study of religious World of Meaning in Contemporary Popular Religions of Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 04301004
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Religious studies
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

ARAKI Michio  Univ.of Tsukuba, Instit.of Phil., Prof., 哲学思想学系, 教授 (60103032)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HOSHIKAWA Keiji  Univ.of Info., Dept of Lib.Info., Lecturer, 図書館情報学部, 講師 (10173585)
NAKANO Tsuyoshi  Soka Univ., Dept.of Lit., Prof., 文学部, 教授 (00164252)
YAMANAKA Hiroshi  Aichi Gakuin Univ., Dept.of Lit., Asst.Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (40201842)
SHIMAZONO Susumu  Univ.of Tokyo, Dept.of Lit., Prof., 文学部, 教授 (20143620)
IKEGAMI Yoshimasa  Univ.of Tsukuba, Instit.of Phil., Asst Prof., 哲学思想学系, 助教授 (60122925)
Project Period (FY) 1992 – 1994
KeywordsPopular Religions / New Religions / Folk Religions / Soteriology / Religious Experiences / Faith-Healing / Mental Training / Politics and Religion
Research Abstract

This project has attemted to grasp the religious world of meaning of people of modern Japan who live their life in critical cultural historical conditions of the last changing society, how it has looked at the human and the world, and what the religious salvation has been meant to be, among those "new religions" and folk religions that have emerged from the late 19th century till today. Araki and Ikegami, starting from those new religions of Konko and Tenri, and ending in World-Messianity, Mahikari and Pentecostal Christian groups of Okinawa, collected data on their faith-healing and religious experience, to understand the deeper meaning of their soteriological structure and to reexamine each methodology, and to grasp the characteristics of contemporary religious salvation in comparison with those of ancient archaic religions of Koyasan, Yoshino and Ise. Shimazono and Ichikawa dealt with those types of group that emphasize experiencialistic tendency in mental training and life attitude … More in combination with contemporary secularism. Nakano constructed a theoretical framework to analyze the power relations between religion and politics in those gigantic religious organizations including Sokaggakai. Hoshikawa made a research on those imported religions popular in urban areas, especially Transcendental Meditatation, focusing on the problem of understanding and verbalization of religious experience. And Yamanaka made a critical reassessment of the theory of science and sociology of religion on the basis of popular religion materials.
One of the most important discoveries of this project is that the historical process of the development of modern popular-folk religion as a whole is closely related to the impact of the modern West as well as the introduction of Western culture and civilization in Japansese society, which in itself is a part of the entire development of modern Western history which was based upon cultural contact of the West with the non-West started in Columbian explorations in 500 years ago. Our research project in the next stage must examine the whole development of modernization and Westernization of Japan as the introduction of the modern West in various aspects of Japanese life, including religion and science, in comparison and relations with the westernization of the other part of the globe. Less

  • Research Products

    (32 results)

All Other

All Publications (32 results)

  • [Publications] 荒木美智雄: "現代の来世観" 岩波講座・日本文学と仏教. 第3巻. 291-318 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 荒木美智雄: "New Religions in Japan as Cultural and Historical Problems" Proceedings of IAHR Conference in Beijin. 84-102 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 荒木美智雄: "民衆宗教としての世界救世教" 岡田茂吉研究. 2. 1-17 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 市川 裕: "経典と現代" 岩波講座 日本文学と仏教. 第6巻. 289-312 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 島薗 進: "心なおしと言葉:新宗教における語呂合わせの機能をめぐって" 異文化コミュニケーション研究. 6. 1-20 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 池上良正: "Okinawan Shamanism and charismatic Christianity" The Japan Christian Review. 59. 69-78 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 中野 毅: "日本の宗教教団と経済活動" 東洋学術研究. 31-1. 52-67 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 山中 弘: "日本におけるM.ウエーバーの受容の系譜 宗教学の視点から" 愛知学院大学文学部紀要. 22. 193-212 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 山中 弘: "The Adaptation of M.Weber's Theories of Religion in Japan" Japanese Journal of Religio s Studies. 20-2・3. 206-228 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 星川啓慈: "他者の宗教体験の理解不可能性について" 宗教研究. 68. 65-85 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 星川啓慈: "日本における“Transcendental Meditation"運動" 図書館情報大学研究報告. 12. 1-27 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 井門富二夫(編): "占領と日本宗教" 未来社, 650 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 島薗 進: "現代救済教論" 青弓社, 254 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 池上良正: "民俗宗教と救い" 淡交社, 173 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 星川啓慈: "悟りの現象学" 法蔵館, 205 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 中野 毅(編): "友人葬を考える" 第三文明社, 224 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Araki, Michio: "The contemporary views of the Other World" Iwanami Koza : Japanese Literature and Buddhism. Vol.3. 291-318 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Araki, Michio: "New Religions in Japan as Cultural and Historical Problems" Preceedings of IAHR Conference in Beijin. 84-102 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Araki, Michio: "The World Messianity as a Popular Religion" The Studies of Mokichi Okada. Vol.2. 1-17 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Ichikawa, Hiroshi: "Scripture and Now" Iwanami Koza : Japanese Literature and Buddhism. Vol.6. 289-312 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Shimazono, Susumu: "The Functions of 'Puns' in Japanese New Religions" Journal of Cultural Communication. Vol.6. 1-20 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Ikegami, Yoshimasa: "Okinawan Shamanizm and Charismatic Christianity" The Japan Christian Review. Vol.59. 69-78 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Nakano, Tsuyoshi: "Japanese Religious Bodies and Their Economic Activities" Journal of Oriental Art and Science. Vol.31-1. 52-67 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Yomanaka, Hiroshi: "Max Weber and Religious Studies in Japan : With Special Reference to the Adaptation of his Theories of Religion" Transactions of the Institute of Cultural Studies, Aichi Gakuin Univ.Vol.22. 193-212 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Yamanaka, Hiroshi: "The Adaptation of M.Weber's Theories of Religion in Japan" Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Vol.20-2.3.206-228 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Hoshikawa, Keiji: "On the Impossibility of Understanding Other People's Religious Experience" Journal of Religious Studies. Vol.68-302. 65-85

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Hoshikawa, Keiji: ""Transcendental Meditation" Movement in Japan" Transactions of the Univ.of Lib.Info.Vol.12. 1-27

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Ikegami, Yoshimasa: Folk Religions and Salvation. Tanko-sha Co., Inc., 173 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Nakano, Tsuyoshi: Thinkng on Funerals Without Priests. The Third Civilization Co., Inc., 224 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Hoshikawa, Keiji: Phenomenology of Religious Awakening. Hozo-kan Co., Inc., 205 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Shimazono, Susumu: The Theories of Contemporary Religions and Soteriology. Seikyu-sha Co., Inc., 254 (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Ikado, Fujio (ed.): Occupation and Japanese Religions. Mirai-sha Co., Inc., 650 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

URL: 

Published: 1996-04-15  

Information User Guide FAQ News Terms of Use Attribution of KAKENHI

Powered by NII kakenhi