"Analysis and Remodeling of the Relations between Religion and Society" International Study Group
This study group will bring together researchers from Asia, Western and Eastern Europe (including Russia) and North America to focus on themes of religion, including religion in contemporary Japanese society. The group aims to understand various issues in the international community that have religious underpinnings, and communicate internationally about the values of contemporary Japanese society.
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Members
Kazuhumi HAMAI
Professor, Department of Education and Culture, Faculty of Education, Teikyo University
War Sociology, Modern Japanese History
Tâm Ngô
Senior researcher, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Netherland &Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
Akira HASEGAWA
Professor, Faculty of Education and Culture, Akita University
Contemporary Russian History, Russian Image Culture
Sanami TAKAHASHI
Lecturer, Graduate School of Human Environment Studies, Kyushu University
Contemporary Russian History, Russian Orthodox Studies
Contemporary Russian History, Russian Orthodox Studies
Hisako KATO
Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Yamato University
Catholic Studies Modern and Contemporary Polish History
Susumu NONAKA
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University
Russian Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Russian Cultural Studies
Kenta AWAZU
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.
Dino Abazovic
Sociologist, Full Professor at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has also worked as the Director of the Human Rights Center of the University of Sarajevo and as the Academic Coordinator of the Religious Studies Program of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at University of Sarajevo. His research is focused on the role of organized religion in conflict and post-conflict societies, the political role of religion in post-socialist transition and religious revivalism, as well as a nexus between religious claims, transitional justice and human rights in emerging democracies.
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