Religious Anthropological Study on generation of Spirituality in Things and Places

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520082
• 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: Nagatani Chiyoko 九州大学, 比較社会文化研究科(研究院), 准教授 (20450207)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 場所 / アニミズム / スピリチュアリティ / 中国 / 日本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In China today, religion and religious customs have been reevaluated. This study aimed to clerify how people's and the officials' view for religion has been changing through positive research about how people treat religious things and religious places. the research reviealed that there exists strong political power to restrict the places allowed for religious activities. However, it was also obvious that there are some people who try to create new religious meeting places and to see secular world itself as an religious cultivation places. The study indicates there exists new style of religiousity and its places in Contemporary China.

Free Research Field

宗教人類学