A Comparative Study on the Thought of Kompaku(soul and spirit) Outlook in Japan and Asia:Through the Analysis of the Relationship between Disaster and Hitogami(man-god)

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K02222
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Bukkyo University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Fumiko 佛教大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 非常勤講師 (80411122)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 宮嶋 純子 関西大学, 東西学術研究所, 非常勤研究員 (80612621)
• Research Collaborator: JI Miryong 韓国綜合芸術大学, 美術院, 講師 ; ONISHI Kazuhiko ベトナム社会科学院, 宗教研究院, 研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 霊魂 / 固有信仰 / 死者供養 / 国際交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In a society where Confucianism tends to dominate, the status of the dead has been ruled by the living because the decision of the living is superior. The people of that society have understood that the unmarried death of women and the war death of men are unfortunate deaths(harmful spirit) that require special treatment, according to the ideas that living people decide. Our research team, as a result of comparing them with the examples of their society, showed that various irregular phenomena occurred in Japanese society. In Japanese society, the influence of order by the living people was relatively modest. Therefore, the artificial rule to reorganize the personality of the dead did not hold. And this missing phenomenon is affecting the overall thought of Japanese society today, such as life culture and values.

Free Research Field

日本宗教史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本の文化現象の歴史的展開をアジア文化のグラデーションのなかで捉え直すことで、従来日本固有とだけ説明されてきた事柄に具体的生成過程があることがあきらかになった。日本の宗教が第一義として〈死の様式〉であることは、西欧的宗教概念に照らして低く評価されてきた。しかしながらこれは、アジアにひろがる魂魄観を前提としながら、自分たちの社会の特性に応じて変容・発展し、現在にまで至ったものである。このことを洞察し的確に捉えていく作業は、こんにち異文化と共存しうる社会を実現するうえできわめて重要である。