Imperial history study of the concept of religion in modern East Asia

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770024
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: Kim Taehoon 立命館大学, 文学部, 任期制講師 (10608706)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 帝国宗教 / 近代宗教 / 宗教概念 / 植民地朝鮮 / 植民地宗教

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of the study lies in seeing colonial korea's religion from the perspective of imperial history. The two main achievements go like this. First, it finds the significant importance of the religious documents studied and written by the Japanese Government General of Korea. it leads Korean historians to pay special attention to the documents, resulting many reprinting and publication of the papers. Second, it presents a new perspective called "imperial religion" to the modern religious history studies. This study is widened into "imperial Shinto" in the Japanese academic worlds and make a contribution to the study of modern history of religion.

Free Research Field

近代宗教史