2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Singapore as a Pluralistic Nation and Its Religio-cultural Policies for Ethnic Harmony
Project/Area Number |
19K00075
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 01030:Religious studies-related
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Research Institution | Tohoku University |
Principal Investigator |
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
保坂 俊司 中央大学, 国際情報学部, 教授 (80245274)
竹村 嘉晃 国立民族学博物館, 学術資源研究開発センター, 外来研究員 (80517045)
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | シンガポール / 宗教間理解 / 宗教間対話 / 宗教政策 / 文化政策 / 多元社会 / 宗教多元主義 / 複合民族国家 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Having Singapore as the main subject of research, this project aims to investigate the policies and mechanisms for building and maintaining harmonious relationships between groups, based on an analysis of the current state of complicated inter-ethnic and inter-religious relationships. It was planned to capture it from a compound perspective. However, the corona infection that surfaced in the second half of the first year became a major obstacle to progress. Contrary to expectations, the members were forced to conduct online research activities, but they were able to put their ingenuity into practice and achieve results. In a sense, we are fortunate that during this time, we were able to encounter unexpected situations, such as the response of religious facilities to COVID-19 and the transformation of rituals under the pandemic, and were able to gain a new awareness of issues.
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Free Research Field |
南アジア研究、移民研究(インド系移民集団を中心に)
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
民族間の調和的関係は宗教間の調和的関係と不可分である。シンガポールを含むマラヤ世界は、典型的な民族縦割り構造をなし、民族と宗教の対応関係も錯綜している。諸集団が相互排除的な関係にとどまるかぎり、コミュナル対立の火種は潜在し、他者理解に裏打ちされた集団間の和諧は遠のく。本研究では、この観点から、地域社会に併存する集団間にいかにして不和が起こり、またいかにすれば調和的関係が構築され得るかについて、理念と実践の両面から考究され、集団間の平和的共存の鍵としての社会的包摂の実現可能性が検討された。今回の研究成果は、多元社会に踏み台筒ある日本への示唆を含むものとして学術的価値は小さくない。
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