Social Plurality and Religions in Post Disaster Societies

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25300021
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: Kimura Toshiaki 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (80322923)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 何 燕生 郡山女子大学短期大学部, 文化学科, 教授 (00292186) ; 高倉 浩樹 東北大学, 東北アジア研究センター, 教授 (00305400) ; 佐島 隆 大阪国際大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (40192596) ; 阿部 友紀 東北大学, 文学研究科, 専門研究員 (90645821)
• Research Collaborator: Sukru Aslan ミマル・シナン芸工大学, 社会学部, 教授 ; MIN LI 四川大学, 道教文化研究センター, 教授 ; Suhadi ガジャマダ大学, 大学院学部宗教学・間文化学研究センター, 講師
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 災害と宗教 / 復興 / 宗教的多様性 / 東・東南アジア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

1.In order to analyze the influence of disaster to the religious plurality in affected area on macro level, we focused on the transition of the number of the facilities of religions in affected area. We collected the data of Kobe, Miyagi, Fukushima, Iwate (Japan), Aceh, Nias, Sumatra Barat, Yograkarta and Taiwan and clarify the pattern of the transition of religious balance between major and minor religions before and after great disaster.
2.Based on these results, we tried to show the background and the influence of religious aid to these transition in detail by ethnographic studies on each area.
3.In addition, holding international conferences four times, we shared these results with the local research institutions (ex. Gadjah Mada Univ. Indonesia, Sichuan Univ. China, Mimal Sinan Umiv. Turkey) and discussed the role of humanistic and social sciences to facilitate religious aid taking religious plurality into account.

Free Research Field

宗教学