A Comparative Literature Study on Theosophical Movement and its Pan-Asian Cultural Intercourse; the Conflict between the Harmony of the East and the West and the Surmounting Nationalism

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26284054
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in general
• Research Institution: Tama Art University
• Principal Investigator: Ando Reiji 多摩美術大学, 美術学部, 教授 (20445620)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 杉本 良男 国立民族学博物館, 民俗文化研究部, 名誉教授 (60148294) ; 吉永 進一 舞鶴工業高等専門学校, 人文科学部門, 教授 (90271600) ; 赤井 敏夫 神戸学院大学, 人文学部, 教授 (00192873) ; 稲賀 繁美 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 教授 (40203195) ; 橋本 順光 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (80334613) ; 岡本 佳子 国際基督教大学, アジア文化研究所, 研究員 (70468560) ; Capkova Helena 早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 助教 (80631332) ; 荘 千慧 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 特任助教(常勤) (50711123) ; 堀 まどか 大阪市立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (20586341)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 比較文学 / 比較宗教学 / トランスカルチュラル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Theosophy had not been a subject of academic research until recently when the importance of the role it played in the modernization of religion, art and politics came to be more widely recognized. In this research project, we succeeded in re-examining the global aspects of this role played by Theosophy, and succeeded in identifying novel areas of inquiry. The members of this project were able to collect precious primary material at home and abroad, and to foster new collaborations with foreign researchers. We held several conferences about Theosophy including the first international conference on such a topic to be organized on Japanese soil. Those meetings were attended by several scholars from around the world and Japan, and have resulted in the establishment of a transnational network of researchers from various disciples, which will surely function as the starting point of the new generation of Theosophical research.

Free Research Field

民俗学、宗教学、比較文学