Religion, Migration, and Identity: The Case of the South Asian Diaspora Population

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23401048
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: TSUJI TERUYUKI 国立民族学博物館, 民族社会研究部, 外来研究員 (20546832)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 宗教 / 移民 / ディアスポラ / 共生 / 社会関係資本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has addressed how the South Asian immigrants and diasporas have reconstructed their religious "traditions" and how the realigned religious faith and practices have affected their social capital development, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Trinidad and South Florida. This study has revealed intricate political and pragmatic relationships between differently-identified religious groups over their devotion to the single Marian statue, while based on ethnographic research at the oldest and largest Indo-Caribbean Hindu temple in South Florida, it has presented a heuristic and critical case for comparison with the earlier studies, which explore the South Asian communities in the traditional settlements such as New York.

Free Research Field

文化人類学・民俗学・社会学