2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Globalizing Chinese Buddhism: Ideologies of Values, Ethnics, and Lifestyles
| Project/Area Number |
16KT0094
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
|
| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
|---|
| Section | 特設分野 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Global Studies
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Sophia University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
Wank David 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (60245793)
|
|---|
| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
足羽 與志子 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 教授 (30231111)
FARRER GRACIA 早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究科), 教授 (70436062)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2016-07-19 – 2020-03-31
|
| Keywords | Buddhism / religion as culture / globalization of culture / ideoscape / state and religion / Chinese Buddhism / global studies / secularism |
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The project investigates the concept of ideoscape (A. Appadurai) of transnational flows of values, ethics, and ideologies of globalizing Chinese Buddhism through fieldwork in sites in Asia, North America, and Europe. Key findings were elucidating 1) processes of the ideoscape in terms of actors and cultural content, 2) the Chinese state's promotion of Chinese Buddhism as religion and culture as part of the Belt and Road Initiative in Asia and the West. Findings are forthcoming in the book The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Communities of Buddhism in Modern China (Columbia UP) and in articles that have been published or are in progress.
The project activated a scholarly network for the study of globalizing Chinese Buddhism and theoretical issues in global studies. To establish the network, we created and participated in numerous workshops and discussions, and organized organized the international conference "Metamorphosis of Buddhism in New Era China" held in Paris, March 2019.
|
| Free Research Field |
Sociology and Global Studies
|
| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The project: 1) illuminates the globalization of Buddhism as religion and culture in the modern world; 2) shows how the Chinese state globally promotes Chinese Buddhism as religion and culture for its geopolitical aims; 3) establishes a transnational scholarly network to study Chinese Buddhism.
|
