2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Religion and Gender: Research of the Control of Sexuality/Gender and Cultural Structure
| Project/Area Number |
13837033
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
ジェンダー
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Osaka University (2003)
Aichi Gakuin University (2001-2002) |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
ITOH Kimio Osaka University, Human Science, Professor, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (00159865)
|
|---|
| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KANEKO Juri Tenri University, Oyasato Institute for the Study of Religion, 附属おやさと研究所, 研究員
SAKURAI Yoshihide Hokkaido University, Literature, Assistant Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 助教授 (50196135)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
|
| Keywords | religious movements / control of sexuality / cultural structure / gender normatively / religious institution / gender hierarchy |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
This Research Project; is an articulated structure of gender/sexuality control and cultural structure through communications between religious studies and gender studies. Each member of the project maintained fieldwork on religious movements and the institutions, and tried to reconstruct religious experiences based on the interviews of the members of the religious institution. So that, finally, this project could describe basic issues of gender and religious studies. The characteristic points are listed below:
1) Empirical research : almost all of the studies on religion and gender have maintained an analysis and criticism of it's traditions. However, our purpose was to obtain a description through discourses and activities of religious institutions and it's members.
2) Communitality : for pointing out the relations between religious activities and social structure, we tried to describe various faces by combining issues that each project member had researched.
3) Gender balance : many cases of gender studies consist of only women and criticize women's situations. However, this project consisted of both women and men.
4) Cultural character and globalization : we tried to compare the situation of Japan with the rest of the world/area, not only each gender situation of religious movements.
|
