Kenta AWAZU
Visiting Researcher, Institute for Grief Care Studies, Sophia University
Visiting Researcher, Institute for Grief Care Studies, Sophia University / Lecturer, Human Resource Development Course
Anthropology of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Comparative Culture
Studied abroad at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, from 1997-98; subsequently earned PhD credits from Soka University in 1999. PhD (Sociology). After working at the National Museum of Japanese History and the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, is now currently a Visting Researcher at the Institute for Grief Care Studies at Sophia University.
Anthropology of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Comparative Culture
Studied abroad at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, from 1997-98; subsequently earned PhD credits from Soka University in 1999. PhD (Sociology). After working at the National Museum of Japanese History and the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, is now currently a Visting Researcher at the Institute for Grief Care Studies at Sophia University.
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Papers
"Remembering the Dead in Silence: Formation and Transformation of National Mourning in Modern Japan," New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 36: Iss. 2, Article 15., 2024
The Cultural Aspects of Disaster in Japan: Silent Tributes to the Dead and Memorial Rocks, Asian Journal of Religion and Society, Vol. 4, No. 1., 2016
Rituals of Silence: The Shaping of Memorial Services in Wartime and Postwar Japan, Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture, 37, 2013.
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