2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on Transition of a Family and the Community from Changing thePractice of Burial

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22530582
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Meijo University
Principal Investigator	ANDO Kiyomi 名城大学, 人間学部, 教授 (60367745)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	MIYAJIMA Hidemitu (50200176) ITO Toshikazu (50247681)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	現代家族 / 墓制 / 継承 / 次世代 / コミュニティ / 寺院 / 流動性
Research Abstract	This study explores changing family attitudes toward burial and relationship with a temple/danka , which is used to support cohesion in the community. Using interview as a qualitative data and survey as a quantitative investigation, I found that the relationship between a family and a temple has changed from a family as one unit to an individual member due to transforming the practice of burial, which is related to changing Japanese modern family itself, and the change has been tangible in thesuccessional problem of the burial.

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