Religious Study on Happiness - Social research in a Japanese local city

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370072
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Seki Kazutoshi 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 名誉教授 (50179321)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 宗教学 / 幸福の四象限 / マチバ / 無事 / 福分 / 時間の多層性 / ひととなり

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is aimed at an ethnographic research on pursuit of happiness in a Japanese local city Fukuoka. Hypothetical schema of four dimensions of happiness is framed through the analyses of folklore as habitus, of ‘iikitari’(oral tradition)　& ‘shikitari’(practices) & ‘hitotonari’(personhood) as triad, compared with rural society. Among the four dimensions of happiness, the fourth type ("happiness in between") deserves our special attention, not only as a type of religious personhood, but also as a typology of accommodating persons ('sewanin') in urban settings (altruism in daily lives).

Free Research Field

宗教学