研究者詳細

教職員基本情報

氏名 Name	MUNSI，Roger Vanzila ( ムンシ　ロジェ　ヴァンジラ , MUNSI,Roger Vanzila )
所属 Organization	国際教養学部国際教養学科
職名 Academic Title	教授
個人または研究室WebページＵＲＬ URL	estrellaheiwa@wordpress
専攻分野 Area of specialization	文化人類学、歴史民俗資料学、社会学、宗教学
学会活動 Academic societies	南山学会 日本文化人類学学会 日本民俗学学会 宗教と社会学会 全国かくれキリシタン研究会 日本アフリカ学会 日本社会学会 日本比較文学会 ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES (AAS) WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION (WHA) SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF JAPANESE RELIGIONS (SSJR) AMERICAN ACADEMY OF(AAR) AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (AASR) ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN IN JAPAN (AJJ)
社会活動 Community services	.神言修道会の社会福祉的活動団体(JPIC委員会） .アフリカ研究会、アフリカサックル .コンゴの子どものために「平和学園」という学校建設を進める ．神言修道会のMER [Mission Education Research Activities Study Committee]活動検 討委員会 ．フランス語のミサ共同体 ．神言修道会の養成・教育委員会Formation/Education 　Committee
著書・学術論文数 No. of books/academic articles	総数 total number (20) 著書数 books (5) 学術論文数 articles (15)

出身学校

学校名 Univ.	卒業年月（日） Date of Graduation	卒業区分 Graduation    Classification2
Catholic University of Eastern Africa東アフリカカトリック大学社会科学部宗教学	1999年06月	卒業
University Saint Augustin of KinshasaFaculty of PhilosophyPhilosophy	1993年07月	卒業

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出身大学院

大学院名 Grad. School	修了課程 Courses    Completed	修了年月（日） Date of Completion	修了区分 Completion    Classification
神奈川大学大学院歴史民俗資料学研究科歴史民俗資料学専攻	博士後期課程	2008年03月	修了
神奈川大学大学院歴史民俗資料学研究科歴史民俗資料学専攻	博士前期課程	2004年03月	修了

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取得学位

　 　 　 　 　 　

学位区分 Degree    Classification	取得学位名 Degree name	学位論文名 Title of Thesis	学位授与機関 Organization    Conferring the Degree	取得年月（日） Date of Acquisition
博士	PhD 博士	かくれキリシタンの宗教活動とその社会的機能　　ー宗教観と都市文化との相互的影響ー	神奈川大学大学院歴史民俗資料学研究科歴史民俗資料学専攻博士後期課程	2008年03月
修士	MA 修士		神奈川大学大学院歴史民俗資料学研究科歴史民俗資料学専攻博士前期課程	2004年03月
学士	BA　学士		Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUAE)Social Sciences科学Theology and Religious Studies神学・宗教学研究	1999年03月
学士	BA　学士		Urbaniana Ponctifical UniversitySacred Theology　神学Sacred Theology　神学	1999年03月
学士	BA 学士		Universite Saint Augustin de Kinshasa大学哲学部哲学研究科	1994年07月
学士	BA 学士		Urbaniana Ponctifical University大学哲学部哲学科	1994年07月

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研究経歴

長期研究／短期研究 Long or Short    Term research	研究課題名 Research Topic
長期研究	Performing Hiddnness: Looking at the facets of the twentieth Karematsu Shrine Festival in Shimo-Kurosaki
概要（Abstract） The present-day remnants of Kakure Kirishitan practitioners are descendants of Japanese Catholics who were persecuted in the early 1600s and subsequently went underground, practicing secretly their faith for about 250 years. Ethnographic and historical evidence shows that their faith-based communities have drawn very deeply from the religious tradition and culture bequeathed to them by their deceased predecessors or righteous ancestors in faith, including mechanisms by which the ‘hiddenness’ has become part of their continued Christian life and worship (Munsi 2014:353). Here we would like instead to focus on the religiously committed communities of Shimo-Kurosaki, Kami-Kurosaki, and Shitsu (Nagasaki) to highlight the singularity of some salient aspects of the twentieth Karematsu Shrine Festival from the performance and event-centered ethnographic perspectives. Singularly important for our purposes is the understanding of how the concepts of indexicality and negotiation, the presence of social energy, and the facets of interfaith gathering are expressed and articulated by Kakure Kirishitan practitioners, Catholics, and Buddhists in a decidedly urban setting.
長期研究	Traditional Medicine of the Sakata People in Congo DRC
概要（Abstract） After an overview of the origins of healing practices in Sakata society gleaned from oral history, I will first focus on the meta-physical body-parts as conceptualized by the Sakata. Then I will conduct semi-structure interviews and formal/informal conversations on the physical body called Njore. Here I will be very much interested in three aspects: (1) the appearance (kelli), (2) the life principle (kenima), and the double body (kenyinyei). This information will potentially allow me to explore the theme of the “logic in the repertoire” of Sakata medicine. Two, four, or six parts of the body evoked in literature will be identified and explored in the field. Along with the data on ceramic vessels used for healing practice I hope that I will glean much ethnographic information from informants so that I can explore further this facet of the subject against the backdrop of the contrast visible versus invisible, which is a generative formula in the whole Sakata cosmology.
長期研究	Kakure Kirishitan Gravestones in Nagasaki Settings
概要（Abstract） This study provides an anthropological analysis of the most salient features of Kakure Kirishitan gravestones and landscapes in Nagasaki settings. The specific focus is on local patterns mirrored in the Kakure Kirishitan practitioners’ social contingencies, reinforcement history, and dynamically lived contexts. The synthesis suggests that Kakure Kirishitan survivors produced fundamental faith-practices, symbols of common cultural and religious identity, and cherished memories that have long established their gravestones as secondary sacred spaces of remembrance. The analysis reinforces the significance of the material and immaterial aspects highlighting the Kakure Kirishitan practitioners’ quintessential quest to idealize, establish, and maintain the human-divine harmony in their present localities. In general, therefore, this study has provided a refined interpretive tool for demonstrating how Kakure Kirishitan gravestones represent a specific sub-culture, often unspoken, but fully understood within a Christian and Japanese tradition.
長期研究	The Age-Old Ritual Practice of Ohatsuhoage: Intersection of Identities and Resources (Part I)
概要（Abstract） This study focuses on the Kakure Kirishitan survivors found in Nagasaki settings to reconfigure our actual understanding of the salient aspects and effects of their age-old ritual of Ohatsuhoage, using a micro-illustrative analysis. The synthesis suggested that the Ohatsuhoage ceremony constitutes a stable part of Kakure Kirishitan ideology, in which its followers critically take up membership in and identity with communities, which in turn serve as homes of these shared practices. Yet this collective ceremony essentially represents a religious practice that includes rice and sake offering and placatory gifts, prayers (Orasho), body movement, and communal meal sharing. Intriguingly, the potential of this ritually-prepared communal meal lies in its ability to shape participants’ psycho-religious imagination, reinforce their sense of belonging to community and collective memories and emotions, while at the same time grounding their identity formats and adaptation processes. Thus, for Kirishitan minorities, the Ohatsuhoage ceremony and its attendant beliefs continue to be historically deemed important and valuable enough to maintain their communities’ minimal religious and cultural survival in urban settings. In general, therefore, this study provided a refined interpretative tool for understanding how the old-age ritual of Ohatsuhoage has increasingly proven to be a definitive component of the various processes that ultimately enables Kakure Kirishitan survivors to be nurtured and resources by the strands of their long-standing spirituality and religion.
長期研究	The Age-Old Ritual Practice of Ohatsuhoage among the Kakure Kirishitan Survivors: Intersection of Identities and Resources (Part II)
概要（Abstract） This research highlights the singularity of the most salient features of the Ohatsuhoage ritual event that constitutes one of the most persistent and deeply ingrained aspects of Kakure Kirishitan survivors in Nagasaki. By bringing together these significant characteristics from the lived religious experiences of three Kakure Kirishitan communities, I attempt to forge a significant positive correlation between the corporate identities and ritual resources that the material gives evidence to. The synthesis demonstrates that the ritually-prepared communal meal—Ohatsuhoage—constitutes a stable part of Kakure Kirishitan dominant ideology in which its followers critically take up membership in and identity with the divine and human community. Intriguingly, its core elements conspire together to signal, shape, and heighten collective self-definition, psycho-religious imagination, cherished memories and emotions, while also grounding their identity formats and adaptation processes. The analysis reinforces the startling assumption that the Ohatsuhoage ritual event continues to be, for the most part of the actor-participants, an historical and valuable religious activity deemed important enough to maintain their minimal survival in urban settings. In general, therefore, this study provides a refined interpretative tool for further understanding how the Ohatsuhoage ritual activity has increasingly proved to be a definitive component of the various processes that ultimately enables Kakure Kirishitan survivors to be nurtured by the strands of their longstanding spirituality and religion in the flux of social change.
長期研究	Folk Belief and Traditions of the Supernatiral among the Kakure Kirishitan: Disclosing 'Japanized Catholicism'
概要（Abstract） This research focuses on aspects of folk belief and traditions of the supernatural experienced by the present-day remnants of Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians) in Nagasaki prefecture in Japan. The aim is to establish a firm basis on which it is justified to speak of a kind of ‘Japanized Catholicism’. Using ethnographic techniques, the results suggest that the Kakure Kirishitan’s religion includes a mixture of rituals, liturgies, symbols, and a few texts developed and adapted, during persecution times by their predecessors, from remnants of 16th century Portuguese Catholicism, often camouflaging them in forms borrowed from the surrounding visible forms of Buddhism and Shinto. Moreover, Kakure Kirishitan communities have re-emerged today in urban contexts as corporate religious minorities whose ongoing struggle is to accomplish transition while retaining continuity with of the past. On the whole, the evidence lends credence to the conclusion that ‘Kakure Kirishitanism’ is not a Japanese folk religion but rather ‘Japanized Catholicism’. Thus, because their religion in particular defines who they are, to change religions, for Kakure Kirishitan individuals, would mean giving up their identity and the support and security that are embodied in it. In general, therefore, it seems that essential elements in the sociological, psycho-religious and spiritual experience of the Kakure Kirishitan constitute their significance in Japan’s socio-religious tradition. Key words: Kakure Kirishitan, folk belief and traditions, supernatural, religious identity, ‘Japanized Catholicism’
長期研究	Kakure Kirishitan in Urban Contexts: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Survival Strategies
概要（Abstract） The Present-day remnants of Kakure Kirishitan represent a tiny, marginalized minority of the local populace, and their survival is in question. During field investigation, it also became evident that some Kakure Kirishitan communities continue to organize religiously, while others have either disbanded, or have enriched themselves just a little more. So far, however, there has been little discussion about this particular facet of the subject. It is therefore of signal importance that research be conducted to delineate the nature and extent of this issue, and the ways in which religiously committed Kakure Kirishitan communities have attempted to survive in a variety of real world settings. This article contributes to this inquiry by providing empirical evidence from Nagasaki districts, focusing on some of the specific survival strategies and practices implemented by Kakure Kirishitan communities to address often complex and fluctuating threats they are currently facing.
長期研究	The Matrilineal Kinship Ideology and Religious Forms Identifying and Preserving Sakata Society
概要（Abstract） The purpose of this ethnographic research is to offer a contribution to the analysis of the dominant sociological, cultural and religious patterns which actually secure the maintenance and survival of the society of the Basakata in contemporary setting. Initially, I will explore the question of whether the structuring processes by which the matrilineal kinship ideology and religious forms prove equally informative, in regard to their role and interrelationship in the Basakata lands. By using a mixed method approach, I hope to bring these two areas of social life of the Basakata into intelligible relationship in a single analysis. A further component of this analysis entails a narrative analysis of the distinct and apparently influential retention factors and their implications for today. The content of this paper is particularly significant in that there have been few other studies on this particular facet of the subject.
長期研究	キリシタン神社の歴史と現状ー地域社会の宗教観をめぐってー
概要（Abstract） 研究の目的と方法 本研究の主目的は、キリシタン神社の歴史と現在的考察への貢献を提供することである。それは具体的には、長崎市の渕町と黒崎町、および五島列島の新上五島町若松におけるキリシタン神社に関する歴史民俗資料学と文化人類学的考察であり、長年培ってきた現地調査と文献調査に基づく貴重な研究成果である。 今回は黒崎町の枯松神社（キリシタン神社）の特性を見出すとともに、かくれキリシタンを含む地域住民との関連性を論述することにある。ここで筆者は、2010年11月3日に行われる第11回枯松神社祭礼の社会組織的な側面に集中することを提議する。そうした点から、簡略にキリシタン神社の倫理と象徴的な側面にも触れることにする。後者は、前研究において深く検討されたものである（Munsi 2008）。 キリシタン神社の現状を観察した結果、地域住民の信仰形態に影響を与える文化的、社会的、宗教的側面が全体としておぼろげなら見えてきた。当該社会の法制度や歴史的・文化的背景に応じて、筆者は、次の考慮すべき属性を置き検討する。 1) キリシタン神社は、どのような文化的関心を表すのか、また、キリシタン神社の大祭礼がそのコミュニティ、あるいはかくれキリシタンのグループにおいて、どのような性格や位置づけを持ち、そしてそのためにどのような形式(構造)を取ってきたのか。 2) キリシタン神社の実態を把握するとともに、近年地域社会的変化の中で、かくれキリシタンがキリシタン神社、あるいはそれの持つ宗教的価値観を、どのように維持し、振舞っているか。
長期研究	かくれキリシタンの宗教活動とその社会的機能Religious Activities and Related Social Aspects of Kakure Kirishitan in Japan
概要（Abstract） 歴史的な迫害を受けつつ「キリスト教信者」として信仰を維持するために、外見的には形を変えながらも根幹の信仰の中身は変えることなく時を経てきた「かくれキリシタン」の信仰に興味をもち、彼らが現在に至るまで人類学的にどのような発展を遂げた、また、どのように信仰文化や社会組織を継承していったかを調査し、本研究のテーマとした。従来の「かくれキリシタン」研究は、主に宗教的実践と歴史的な背景に関心を集中してきた。これらの研究においては、いずれも重要な成果をあげている。ただし、そのいずれもが、（現時点に限定せずとりあげた文献は、歴史的な脈絡においても）かくれキリシタン信徒たちの家族構造（の絆）と信仰組織の社会結合を焦点としておらず、文化的・社会的な背景をもつ全体論的な考察への方向性を欠落させている。本研究を通じて、「かくれキリシタン」の組織とその地域文化的な要素間との関係における、人類学的分析のささやかな貢献を願っている。

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著書

年度 Year	著書名 Title of the books	著書形態 Form of Book	NeoCILIUS    請求番号／資料ID Request No
	出版機関名 Publishing organization，判型 Book Size，頁数 No. of pp.，発行年月（日） Date
2022	Hominis Dignitatis An Interdisciplinary Approach	共編著
	Logos Publications  ， A5  ， 383p.  ， 2022/05/25
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	備考（Remarks） The Book was published by Professors from the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Nanzan University. I am one of the five co-editors. I also contributed to the book with a chapter on 'Human Dignity in the light of Anthropology," see pp.329-361.
2021	『村上茂の伝記―カトリックへ復帰した外海・黒崎かくれキリシタンの指導者』	単著
	聖母の騎士  ， B5  ， 384p  ， 2022/3/31
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2021	The Dancing Church of the Congo. Missionary Paths in a changing Society	単著
	MediaComX  ， A5  ， 444p.  ， 2022/3/31
	概要（Abstract） This book highlights some salient facets of the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the anthropological, theological, missiological, and native perspectives. It specifically provides readers with the insights that delineate the extent to which the movement of inculturation has, since 1989, gained much ground in the DRC. The main thesis of the book posits that the Congolese Catholic Church has, in a remarkable way, revealed evangelization to be its dominant strategy for survival and growth. This undeniable reality, consequently, affirms today its character as the Dancing Church in Central Africa. The Zaïrean rite and the instituted lay ministries of Bakambi and Bayangeli, on which this study has dealt with at great length, constitute, among many others, two striking attempts at inculturation through which the Congolese Catholic Church has built its own unique experience of African Christian life and faith. However, it is the author’s contention that the process of inculturation in the DRC requires that both Congolese people and foreigners (ordained pastors and consecrated religious members or evangelizers, and laypersons) develop in themselves a keen interest in becoming substantively acquainted with Congolese customs, spiritualties, and cultural heritage in order to effectively undertake the task of inculturation in situations and areas in which they find themselves. This task also demands that the Dancing Church of the Congo further undertakes a dialogue between the cultural elements of inculturation and the burning socio-economic and political issues that mark Congolese society today. In general, therefore, this book suggests that an effective inculturation must start from the morphological aspects of culture, passing by the functional aspects, and reaching the mentality of the Congolese people themselves. The hope is that an integrated inculturation, if carried out in the DRC, will lead the Congolese Catholic Church, in this third millennium, to become truly African and determine the future of Christianity both in the country and in Africa.
	備考（Remarks） A peer reviewed book published with the Grant from Nanzan Monograph Series 2021. The book is based on a long-term cross-sectional ethnographic research carried out in the Congo (DRC).
2021	Satnistaw Grodz, Sebastian M. Michael, and Roger Schroeder (eds). Giants' Footprints. 90th Anniversary of Anthropos Institute (1931-2021),"Kakure Kirishitan Survivors and Kirishitan Shrine Festivals in Japan: Some Ethnographic Research Perspectives," 265-277. Bonn, Munich: Academia	共著
	Anthropos Institute  ， A5  ， 13p  ， 2021/12/30
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	備考（Remarks） Book Chapter in Satnistaw Grodz, Sebastian M. Michael, and Roger Schroeder (eds). Giants' Footprints. 90th Anniversary of Anthropos Institute (1931-2021), 265-277. Bonn, Munich: Academia
2015	『村上茂の生涯―カトリックへ復帰した外海・黒崎かくれキリシタンの指導者』	単著
	聖母の騎士社  ， B5  ， 153 p.  ， 2015年6月25日
	概要（Abstract） この本はかくれキリシタンの帳方（指導者）として活躍っされた故・村上茂（1919年－2005年）の生涯を紹介することを目的としている。彼の生涯の一面を、具体的に描写することが私の意図するところである。そうすることにより、私は彼に敬意を払い、また彼の魂の遍歴も、私たち自身を照らすことができるように思う。
	備考（Remarks） The main parts of the book has been put into a CD which also contains the Orasho (prayer of Kakure Kirishitan) recited by the late Murakami Shigeru and the current leader,Murakami Shigenori.
2015	『村上茂の生涯―カトリックへ復帰した外海・黒崎かくれキリシタンの指導者』 CD版	共著
	聖母の騎士社  ， その他  ， 2015/07/15
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2012	『村上茂の伝記―カトリックへ復帰した外海・黒崎かくれキリシタンの指導者』	単著
	聖母の騎士社  ， B5  ， 288p.  ， 2012/11/03
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	備考（Remarks） 1.長崎新聞、長崎テレビ（NCC）で紹介された書 (Nov.16, 2012。 2. This book has been reviewed by Prof. Peter Knecth ペトロ　クネヒト（元南山大学教授), In 『神奈川学評論 74』(2013), pp. 170-171
2012	『ことばと国家のインターフィエス』, 「コンゴ民主共和国における言語と国家の現状」	共著
	南山大学地域研究センター共同研究シリス6　（行路社）  ， A5  ， 373p 、 【185-224 (40p)】  ， 2012/03/31
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2009	『世界中のアフリカへ行こう―＜旅する文化＞のガイドブック』、「コンゴはどうして貧しいか」	共著
	岩波書店  ， B5  ， 177p 　【60-80 (20p)】  ， 2009/05
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2007	The Dancing Church of the Congo. Missionary Paths in a changing Society	単著
	CEEBA Publications  ， その他  ， 206  ， 2007/12
	概要（Abstract） “This book is an attempt to show the need for genuine evangelization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) against the background of the missionary challenge in the three conflicting African worlds today: Christian faith, African traditions, and contemporary cultures buffered by the winds of globalization. In its task to both make a critical analysis and to break some new ground concerning this matter, this book is primarily intended to Congolese Christians, especially members of the Communautés écclesiales vivantes de base [Basic Living Christian Communities] (CEVB) and those of other parish spiritual groups. It is also designed to serve as a useful instrument of study for young Congolese students. From them, considerable insights and creativity in the life and mission of the Catholic Church in the Congo are expected in this Third Millennium. For this purpose, the author strove, from a theological and a missionary-anthropological stand point, to organize this book in such a way as to both enkindle new interest in genuine evangelization in this context, an instill further reflection on some existing outstanding efforts by the Catholic Church in the Congo for this purpose. Specifically, this book tries to point out the implications for Congolese Christians of the initiatives the local Catholic Church has set in motion. The initiatives have been made to allow members of Congolese Christian Communities to play a vital role in bringing Christ into the life of the Congo. It is my hope that this book can reflect my concern for successful evangelization of Africa and especially of the Congo DRC, and that it can explain for readers the means which the Congolese Catholic Church has chosen to bring this evangelization about.” (From the Preface by the Author)
	備考（Remarks） “The African response to the global flow of ideas and images is creative and contains many continuities with its own tradition. The Dancing Church of the Congo, as delineated by the author of this book, indicates the way forward for inculturation in Africa. This is an important contribution to the ongoing discussion concerning Church and culture in general, and in Africa in particular.” (From the Foreword by Aylward Shorter, a British-born Missionary of Africa and Catholic missiological anthropologist and Africanist, who studied under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford University and has had an extensive experience of living and working in East Africa.)

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学術論文

年度 Year	論文題目名 Title of the articles	共著区分 Collaboration    Classification	NeoCILIUS    請求番号／資料ID Request No
	掲載誌名 Journal name，出版機関名 Publishing organization，巻／号 Vol./no.，頁数 Page nos.，発行年月（日） Date
2023	Kirishitan Shrines in Nagasaki Settings: Narrative Analysis and Perspectives on their Extent, Nature, Facets, and Contours	単著
	ACADEMIA- Humanities and Natural Sciences   ， Nanzan University  ， 25  ， pp.97-129  ， 2023/01
	概要（Abstract） This study draws on a narrative analysis approach to investigate the distinctive aspects of Kirishitan shrines within the context of striking religious phenomena readily observable in the lived religious experiences and relics of the present-day remnants of Kakure Kirishitan practitioners in Nagasaki prefecture. The synthesis of ethnographic data and secondary sources suggests that Kirishitan shrines inherently display the religiosity of Kakure Kirishitan practitioners seemingly integrated into supporting local communities. This contextualized examination, thus, reinforces the significance of Kirishitan shrines as sacred sites and institutions representing the footprints of the Christian mission in Japan. At the very least, their facets and contours reflect the symbolism of a sub-culture, often silent, but fully understood within a Christian and Japanese tradition. In general, therefore, this study proposes a refined interpretative tool for demonstrating how Kirishitan shrines have been, within Christian material religion, extended not only to other sacred objects that are ritually ascribed dual nature, such Kirishitan festivals, but also to both religious texts and material vessels to a greater spiritual extent. This study highlights mechanisms by which the Kakure Kirishitan religion’s adaptation and preservation functions in the lives of its followers can lead to religious vitality and affirmation in changing localities. Keywords: Kirishitan shrines, sacred sites, festivals, Kakure Kirishitan practitioners, religiosity, lived religious experiences, cherished memories, deceased predecessors, Christian material religion, Nagasaki.
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2023	Fieldwork Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Selected Experiences and Fond Memories from the Congo	単著
	ACADEMIA- Social Sciences   ， Nanzan University  ， 24  ， pp.23-40  ， 2023/01
	概要（Abstract） The COVID-19 Pandemic has radically changed the perspectives of fieldwork research in many settings. This study uses an auto-ethnographic approach to determine how this unexpected world crisis affected my two research projects in the hinterland of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The synthesis suggests that my fieldwork research experience among the Sakata people necessitated the creation of new methodological tools and ethical practices, as well as the adaptation of older practices and techniques, to better meet the challenges I faced in the research processes. The analysis, thus, reinforces the assumption that additional measures may be required while conducting fieldwork research in the circumstances of the COVID-19 crisis, depending on specific characteristics of the planned research project, environmental conditions, and local community public health situations. This study has relevance for theoretical conceptualizations of fieldwork research and offers two stunning examples of how an ethnographer engages, adapts, and subsequently survives in the midst of risks associated with resuming essential fieldwork research both during and after theCOVID-19 pandemic. Together, these field experiences, struggles, and insights, therefore, delineate how a combination of “agile research” or “digital ethnography” and in-person ethnographic study can aid greatly in this effort by providing new ideas and data. Keywords: Fieldwork research, COVID-19 pandemic, mitigate risks, Sakata people, Congo, digital ethnography, in-person ethnography fieldwork, innovation and flexibility.
	備考（Remarks）
2022	Ecological Issues and Protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo	単著
	Billetin of Ecumenical Theology  ， Ecumenical Association of Nigerian Theologians (EANT)   ， Vol.34  ， pp.6-41  ， 2022/08/25
	概要（Abstract） Human practices, water and land management, ecosystem and biodiversity conservation, and protected landscapes have long been topics of much writing and debate. This article focuses mainly on the Congo (DRC) to highlight its relevance to the world, both in terms of its strategic place in the protection of biodiversity and in view of its immense and important resources. Using ethnographic and secondary sources, the results suggest that the DRC, unfortunately, finds itself today in a situation that contrasts with its potential, displaying several threats to environmental protection. Indeed, it happens that the implementation of environmental standards in the DRC is detrimental to its development efforts. On this stance, however, there is a paradox between environmental protection and satisfaction of socio-economic needs. This study provides a refined interpretative tool for further understanding how the protection of the environment is a necessity for the very existence of the individual while the satisfaction of socio-economic needs occupies a significant place for the present and future survival of any human or non-human species. Hence, the ecological question of biodiversity conservation landscape, deforestation, reforestation, and management of natural resources related to the sustainability of the Congo Basin rainforests, grasslands, and rivers ultimately needs, alongside that of Amazonia, serious global economic-ethical attention and solidarity today to ensure the future of humanity and other non-human species. Keywords: Congo, Congo River Basin, environmental protection, socio-natural environmental issues, biodiversity conservation landscape, deforestation, reforestation, management of natural resources.
	備考（Remarks） A peer reviewed Article Journal Editor: Prof. Elochukwu E. Ezukwu (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA/USA)
2022	Kakure Kirishitan Practitioners in Nagasaki Settings: An Ethnographic Study of their Community Leadership Patterns	単著
	ACADEMIA- Humanities and Natural Sciences   ， Nanzan University  ， Vol.24  ， pp.135-164  ， 2022/06
	概要（Abstract） The present-day remnants of Kakure Kirishitan practitioners in Nagasaki Prefecture represent the descendants of Japanese Catholics who were persecuted in the early 1600s and who, subsequently, went underground. Recent ethnographic evidence has shown that they constitute a very small, marginalized minority of the local populace, and their survival is in question. This synthesis focuses on the lived-religious experiences, social relations, cultural ideals, and struggles of five active Kakure Kirishitan communities to further highlight the singularity of some salient aspects of their leadership structures and determinants that have significantly characterize them in their present localities. Using ethnographic techniques, I argue that the continued existence and success of Kakure Kirishitan leaders in their respective surviving faith-based communities essentially depend on a continuously creative balancing of leadership functioning and psycho-religious interests dealing with circumstances that can change at any moment. This study, therefore, suggests that Kakure Kirishitan constructs represent a common heritage, an aspect in accordance with which Kakure Kirishitan practitioners effectively identify themselves and that they use to meaningfully account for their continuing spiritual path. This amounts to the quintessential quest of these seemingly integrated religious minorities for assuring their minimal survival in the modern pattern of urban life. Keywords: Kakure Kirishitan Practitioners, faith-based community, leadership patterns, religious experience, deceased predecessors, righteous ancestors in faith, minimal survival, Nagasaki Christians.
	備考（Remarks）
2022	Unraveling the Threads: Why does Congo represent the Future of the Globalized World Order	単著
	ACADEMIA- Social Sciences   ， Nanzan University  ， Vol.23  ， pp.81-109  ， 2022/06
	概要（Abstract） Recent developments in the study of Africa have heightened the world’s interest to have a stable and prosperous Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that is capable to help Africa fulfil its economic potential in the 21st century, while offering at the same time great potential for profound change to humanity. This synthesis highlights the nature and extent of the DRC’s potentialities, and determine possible asymmetries and risks entailed in this process at the national, regional, and global levels. Analysis shows that the DRC has, regardless its geo-strategic position in the heart of Central Africa and immense natural ressources, long failed to act in concert and develop a transit economy in the sub-region. These shortcomings have been attributed to the country’s lack of political vision, political will, human and financial capacities, as well as the overall unpleasant regional climate. The study, therefore, provides a refine interpretative tool for understanding how the DRC represents the future of both African and global economic networks. Hence, its stabilization, pacification, and sustainable development, as well as its protection and power reinforcement are solely needed today, lest people in national and international spheres take advantage of the neglect to destroy the world’s ecosystem and humanity. Keywords: DRC, geo-strategic position, mineral ressources, stability, pacification, power reinforcement, National interests, global economic networks, ecosystem, humanity.
	備考（Remarks）
2022	新型コロナウイルス時の現地調査 −コンゴでの体験と思い出を中心に−	単著
	人類学 研究所 通信  ， Anthropos Institute (Nanzan University)  ， 第22号  ， pp.9-11
	概要（Abstract） 新型コロナウイルスは多くの研究者に影響を与 え、その研究手法の見直しを迫っている。このエッ セイでは、私が 2020 年と2021 年に計画した 2 つ の研究プロジェクトにおけるコロナ禍の影響につい て報告する。これらの研究は、主にコンゴ民主共 和国（以下コンゴを略する）のバンツー系母系社会 であるサカタ族に焦点を当てたものである。
	備考（Remarks） Essay
2021	Secret Transmission in Kakure Kirishitan Families	単著
	The Japan Mission Journal  ， Oriens Institute for Research  ， 75/4  ， pp. 267-279  ， 2021/12/23
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） Research Results Part 2. A follow-up cross-sectional ethnographic research carried out in Sendaiji (Ibaraki city). The article highlights the facets of the last three Kakure Kirishitan Women in Taisho Period.
2021	Kakure Kirishitan Footprints in Takatsuki and Sendaiji	単著
	The Japan Mission Journal  ， Oriens Institute for Research  ， 75/3  ， pp.181-195  ， 2021/09/10
	概要（Abstract） Kakure Kirishitan gravestones and relics have since the 1920's offered precious evidence of the minimal survival of early Japanese Crypto-Christians/Catholics in the secluded Takatsuki and Sendaiji districts. Using ethnographic techniques, the results showed that these significant material objects vividly evoke specific stories and cherished emotional memories from the past through their history associated with the incidents of persecution and untimely martyrdom. The biographies and active socio-religious lives of these Kakure Kirishitan gravestones and relics have enriched the local narratives and anecdotal stories on them both (non-textual) 'documents to changing human sensitivities' and 'sanctified acts of memory'. In general, therefore, this ethnographic synthesis lends credence to the conclusion that "material objects, including relics, are considered to possess an active agency of their own, inviting responses from the audiences that encounter them " (Kazan/Higham 209:142)
	備考（Remarks） Ethnographic Research Report (Part 1)
2021	Kakure Kirishitan Gravestones in Nagasaki Settings	単著
	Annual Papers of the Anthropological Institute  ， Anthropological Institute/Nanzan University  ， 12  ， 54-79  ， 2021/06/30
	概要（Abstract） This study provides an anthropological analysis of the most salient features of Kakure Kirishitan gravestones and landscapes in Nagasaki settings. The specific focus is on local patterns mirrored in the Kakure Kirishitan practitioners’ social contingencies, reinforcement history, and dynamically lived contexts. The synthesis suggests that Kakure Kirishitan survivors produced fundamental faith-practices, symbols of common cultural and religious identity, and cherished memories that have long established their gravestones as secondary sacred spaces of remembrance. The analysis, thus, reinforces the significance of the material and immaterial aspects highlighting the Kakure Kirishitan practitioners’ quintessential quest to idealize, establish, and maintain the human-divine harmony in their present localities. In general, therefore, this study has provided a refined interpretive tool for demonstrating how Kakure Kirishitan gravestones represent a specific sub-culture, often unspoken, but fully understood within a Christian and Japanese tradition. Keywords Kakure Kirishitan survivors, gravestones, sacred spaces, religious experiences, deceased predecessors, Nagasaki Christians
	備考（Remarks） Detailed Ethnographic Report on salient data gleaned mainly from Nagasaki settings
2021	Twin Rites among the Pygmies of the Congo and the Historical Progress	単著
	Annual Papers of the Anthropological Institute  ， Anthropological Institute/Nanzan University  ， 12  ， pp.103-120  ， 2021/06/30
	概要（Abstract） The twin rites among the Pygmies of the Republic of Congo revealed the existence of specific objects and places that only the Pygmy priests can master. The research showed that the ritual practices of twins, which begin at birth and are then carried out in three other necessary stages of life are often accompanied by hard, painful, and sometimes fatal events. Pygmies prepare their twins not only for life in the nature, but also for an increasingly high status, which in effect results in the accumulation of experience, formation of spirit, and qualitative and positive training. These twin rituals serve them until they become adults and married persons. In general, therefore, it seems that twin rites still resist today the multiple influences of modernity whose local governors and Bantu are victims to as they somehow vacillate between modernity and tradition. Indeed, the Pygmies of the Congo still continue to be highly regarded as relics of primitive populations which definitely deserve preservation, social interaction, and scholarly attention.
	備考（Remarks） English Translation from the French Version

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その他研究業績

年度 Year	題名等 Titles	カテゴリ Category	細目 Authorship
	掲載雑誌名等 Publishing Magazine，発行所 Publisher，巻／号 Vol./no.，頁数 Page nos.，発行年月（日） Date
2023	Tsumoriko Shrines in Shinkamigoto	調査報告	単著
	2023/01/20
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） Preliminary results
2022	Cotton-Human Relations in Contexts of Production, Consumption, and Sustainable Community	調査報告	単著
	概要（Abstract） This study focuses particularly on the little-explored social phenomenon of the relationship between cotton and humans that is observed in different contexts, sectors, and conditions of lived-experiences, business, and economic development, and exists around us. It then explains, along with case studies and actual events, why cotton is so important to humans and why the two are inevitably inseparable. The connection between the two may sound metaphorical, but it is, rather, an unmistakable reality. I argue that this relationship will continue as long as human beings live their social, economic, and material lives. Here, cotton represents one of the world’s leading agricultural crops and appears in many situations as an important textile raw material in clothing. For example, it is cultivated and picked in cotton fields, used in spinning and dyeing mills to produce yarn and fabrics, in sewing factories to manufacture products, and in retail outlets to sell cotton products. In all of these stages, cotton and humans continue to be inextricably linked. The analysis thus reinforces the assumption that the maintenance of natural ecology and human ecology should be reconsidered today as being equally crucial in the process of cotton production and consumption. On the whole, these finding, though preliminary, have important implications for developing our understanding of the many facets and contours of cotton, with regional studies being crucial to such understanding. Keywords: Cotton, humans, production and consumption, economic development, human dignity, sustainable community
	備考（Remarks） Preliminary results
2020	Ramos, Martin Nogueira. 2019. La foi des ancêtres. Chrétiens cachés et catholiques dans la société villageoise japonaise XVIIe-XIXe siècles [The Faith of the Ancestors. Hidden Christians and Catholics in the Japanese Village Society].	書評	単著
	CNRS Editions  ， 413p  ， 2020.6
	概要（Abstract） My overall observation is that this book successfully fulfills its aims to deftly re-interpret the social and religious history of a Japanese village society. The merit of Ramos is to have particularly demonstrated the extent to which “religion, in its [ultimate] social and spiritual dimension, plays a significant role in preserving its quintessential importance in community organization, modes of thought, and broader human relations [and collectively shared resources]” (p.20). Conceptually, interpretivism is advanced as a suitable philosophical framework for the pursuit of study that offers a methodological rationale for a pragmatic, mixed-method investigation. Although there have been some ethnographic and historical studies on this facet of the subject, the sample and context of this work gives it a distinctive character. The book is organized into six well-documented, integrated and interrelated topical chapters, within a broader analytic-conceptual discussion on the research sample. Readers get the impression that the author pays throughout close attention to the interconnectedness of the chapters as well as the general cohesiveness of the book. In a similar vein, the concise summary at the end of each chapter makes transitions from one to the next very smooth.
	備考（Remarks） Book Review for Brill Publisher
2019	MASSALA, Ngoma & MAFOUMBOU MOODY, Armand. 2008. "Twin Rites among the Pygmies of the Congo and their Historical Progress"	翻訳	単訳
	2020/06/30
	概要（Abstract） Article translated from the French into English.
	備考（Remarks）
2019	Sakata Folk Dance in Urban Settings	資料	単著
	2019/8
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks）
2019	“ Medicine Repertory of the Sakata People in the Congo”	調査報告	単著
	2019/10
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks）
2019	“Royal Family and Conflicts over Leadership of the Mabie Chiefdom in Sakataland	調査報告	単著
	2019/10
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks）
2019	Milhaud, Olivier. 2006. “Post-Francophonie?” 「ポスト・フランコフォニーとは何か」	翻訳	単著
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） Translation from the French Version into Japanese with my Foreword and Postface.
2019	『キリシタン神社の歴史と現状―地域社会の宗教観をめぐって』	調査報告	単著
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks）
2018	「キリシタン神社ー地域、宗教の融合に」	新聞の記事	単著
	東京新聞　　『生きる』  ， 2018/09/09
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） 世界遺産登録に関する研究報告

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学術関係受賞

年度 Year	受賞学術賞名 Name of award	受賞対象となった研究／業績／活動等 Activity for which award given	受賞年月（日） Date
	授与機関 Award presenter
2013	カトリック学術奨励金研究奨励金	著書：『村上茂―カトリックへ復帰した外海・黒崎かくれキリシタンの指導者』 The Biography of Murakami Shigeru: A Kakure Kirishitan Leader from Sotome-Kurosaki who [re]converted to Catholicism	2013年06月07日
	日本カトリック大学連盟　会長ミカエル・カラマノ
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研究発表

年度 Year	題目又はセッション名 Title or Name of Session	細目 Authorship	発表年月（日） Date
	発表学会等名称 Name, etc. of the conference at which the presentation is to be given, 主催者名称 Organizer, 掲載雑誌名等 Publishing Magazine，発行所 Publisher，巻／号 Vol./no.，頁数 Page nos.
2022	Kakure Kirishitan Practitioners in Contemporary Japan	単独	2022/10/24
	Interreligious Study in Japan Program (ISJP)   ， NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks）
2022	Kakure Kirishitan Rituals and Symbols	単独	2022/10/24
	Interreligious Study in Japan Program (ISJP)   ， NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks）
2021	Kakure Kirishitan Gravestones in Nagasaki Settings	単独	2021/08/24
	12th International Convention of Asia Scholars-- Crafting a Global Future  ， ICAS and Kyoto Seika University
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） Academic Paper based on salient ethno-archeological data gleaned from Nagasaki settings
2020	Anthropology and Education: Empowering Human Ressources at School	単独	2020/08/20
	Heiwa School Para Activities(HSPA)  ， HEIWA SCHOOL
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） Guest Speaker. The Online Conference aimed to empower human ressources of Heiwa school in Bandundu city (Congo DRC.) from the stand point of the anthropology of education.
2019	The Old-Age Ritual Practice of Ohatsuhoage among the Kakure Kirishitan Survivors: Intersection between Identities and Resources	単独	2019/7
	INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF ASIA SCHOLARS (ICAS)  ， LEIDEN UNIVERSITY
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） . Reviewed Abstract . [Part II] A FOLLOW UP RESEARCH PRESENTATION
2019	The Historical Christian Sites and the present-day remnants of Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christian) communities” in Nagasaki settings	単独	2019/11/11
	Interreligious Study in Japan Program (ISJP)   ， NCC Institute for Religious Studies (Kyoto)
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks）
2019	Kirishitan Shrine festivals and Christian Ecumenical Discourse: A Performance and Ethnographic Study	共同	2019/1/21
	COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH-ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE  ， Anthropological Institute (Nanzan University)
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） A Special Workshop I organized together with Prof. Julian Vasquez (Stockholm University) at the Anthropological Institute (Nanzan University)
2018	「長崎再発見－隠れキリシタンの現在」	単独	2019/01/30
	南山中学文化委員会  ， 南山中高男子部
	概要（Abstract） 独自の発展を遂げたかくれキリシタン。 仏教徒と同じように線香を供えて拝んだ「キリシタン神社」や 観音像に似せたマリア像などここまで組織的に信仰を隠すのは、海外では例がない。見つからないよう工夫する中で生まれた信仰の形や現在の姿を探る。
	備考（Remarks） 世界遺産登録記念
2018	The Age-Old of Ritual Practice of Ohatsuhoage among the Kakure Kirishitan Survivors: Intersection of Identities and resources (Part 1)	単独	2018/12/09
	ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN IN JAPAN FALL MEETING 2018  ， ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN IN JAPAN [AJJ]
	概要（Abstract） This paper highlights the singularity of the most salient features of the Ohatsuhoage ritual event that constitutes one of the most persistent and deeply ingrained aspects of Kakure Kirishitan survivors in Nagasaki Prefecture. By bringing together these significant characteristics from the lived religious experiences of three religiously active Kakure Kirishitan communities, I attempt to forge a significant positive correlation between the corporate identities and ritual resources that characterize the celebration of this ritual substitute of the Eucharist. The synthesis demonstrates that the ritually-prepared communal meal—Ohatsuhoage—constitutes a stable part of Kakure Kirishitan dominant ideology in which its followers critically take up membership in and identity with the divine and human community. Intriguingly, its core elements conspire together to signal, shape, and heighten collective self-definition, psycho-religious imagination, cherished memories and emotions, while also grounding their identity formats and adaptation processes. The analysis reinforces the startling assumption that the Ohatsuhoage ritual event continues to be, for the most part of the actor-participants, an historical and valuable religious activity deemed important enough to maintain their minimal survival in urban settings. In general, therefore, this study provides a refined interpretative tool for further understanding how the Ohatsuhoage ritual activity has increasingly proved to be a definitive component of the various processes that ultimately enables Kakure Kirishitan survivors to be nurtured by the strands of their longstanding spirituality and religion in the flux of social change.
	備考（Remarks） .Reviewed Abstract .Part I of Research
2018	『キリシタン神社の歴史と現状―地域社会の宗教観をめぐって』	単独	2018/10/21
	COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH-ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE  ， Anthropological Institute (Nanzan University)
	概要（Abstract）
	備考（Remarks） Book in progress

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研究助成

年度 Year	助成名称または科学研究費補助金研究種目名 Name of grant or research classification for scientific research funding		研究題目 Research Title
	役割（代表/非代表） Role	助成団体 Granting body	助成金額 Grant amount
2022	2022年度の学校基金の研究費・活動費		綿花と人間との関わり 歴史から経験と記録へ [Cotton-Human Relations: From History to Experience and Records]
		神言修道会日本管区
	研究内容（Research Content）
	備考（Remarks） Joint Book Project
2020	南山大学パッヘ研究奨励金II-B		Kakure Kirishitan Gravestones in Nagasaki Settings
	Principal Researcher
	研究内容（Research Content） This study provides an anthropological analysis of the most salient features of Kakure Kirishitan gravestones and landscapes in Nagasaki settings. The specific focus is on local patterns mirrored in the Kakure Kirishitan practitioners’ social contingencies, reinforcement history, and dynamically lived contexts. The synthesis suggests that Kakure Kirishitan survivors produced fundamental faith-practices, symbols of common cultural and religious identity, and cherished memories that have long established their gravestones as secondary sacred spaces of remembrance. The analysis reinforces the significance of the material and immaterial aspects highlighting the Kakure Kirishitan practitioners’ quintessential quest to idealize, establish, and maintain the human-divine harmony in their present localities. In general, therefore, this study has provided a refined interpretive tool for demonstrating how Kakure Kirishitan gravestones represent a specific sub-culture, often unspoken, but fully understood within a Christian and Japanese tradition.
	備考（Remarks）
2019	南山大学パッヘ研究奨励金II-B		The Old-Age Ritual Practice of Hatsuhoage: Intersection between Identities and Resources
	研究内容（Research Content）
	備考（Remarks）
2017	南山大学パッヘ研究奨励金II-B		Kakure Kirishitan Survivors
	研究内容（Research Content）
	備考（Remarks）
2015	南山大学パッヘ研究奨励金II-B		AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF KIRISHITAN SHRINE IN JAPAN
	研究内容（Research Content）
	備考（Remarks）
2014	南山大学パッヘ研究奨励金II-B		AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF KIRISHITAN SHRINE IN JAPAN
	研究内容（Research Content）
	備考（Remarks）
2011	南山大学パッヘ研究奨励金I-A-2		「キリシタン神社の歴史と現状―地域社会の宗教観をめぐって」
	研究内容（Research Content）
	備考（Remarks）
2009	南山大学パッヘ研究奨励金I-A-2		「キリシタン神社の歴史と現状―地域社会の宗教観をめぐって」
	研究内容（Research Content）
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教育活動

年度 Year	タイトル Title	内容等 Content	活動期間 Period of Activities
2023	Cotton-human Relations and SDGs	Cotton cultivation and consumption face various issues in today's globalized world. The effects of cotton on local community sustainability call for further ethnographic inquiry. From this perspective, this study analyses the relationship of cotton production and fair trade as well as with the deplorable implications of a growing amount of child labor in India, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, and Mali. An important note is made on the concepts of conventional cotton and organic cotton in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).	2021/04/01-2022/03/31
2022	Kakure Kirishitan Practitioners: A Study of their Historical Background , Socio-Cultural and Psycho-Religious Constructs	This study demonstrates that Kakure Kirishitan practitoners have been intrinsically and extrinsically characterized by remarkable spiritual motivation and persistence, psycho-religious experiences, and emotions, as well as vivid historical, Christian, and moral references to their dceased predecessors or righteous ancestors in faith. More importantly, they have sought, through,the so-called Kirishitan shrine festivals, the visibility and viability of their religious beliefs and practices in the public sphere, while privetely forming and reaffirming suitable images of community, including member bonds, secrecy, fond memories, and sacred relic veneration---the most basic tenets of their religion and ideology.	2022/04/01-2023/03/31
2021	Kakure Kirishitan Practitioners in Nagasaki: An Ethnography of their Community Leadership Patterns	The present-day remnants of Kakure Kirishitan practitioners in Nagasaki Prefecture represent the descendants of Japanese Catholics who were persecuted in the early 1600s and who, subsequently, went underground. Recent ethnographic evidence has shown that they constitute a very small, marginalized minority of the local populace, and their survival is in question. This synthesis focuses on the lived-religious experiences, social relations, cultural ideals, and struggles of five active Kakure Kirishitan communities to further highlight the singularity of some salient aspects of their leadership structures and determinants that have significantly characterize them in their present localities. Using ethnographic techniques, I argue that the continued existence and success of Kakure Kirishitan leaders in their respective surviving faith-based communities essentially depend on a continuously creative balancing of leadership functioning and psycho-religious interests dealing with circumstances that can change at any moment. This study, therefore, suggests that Kakure Kirishitan constructs represent a common heritage, an aspect in accordance with which Kakure Kirishitan practitioners effectively identify themselves and that they use to meaningfully account for their continuing spiritual path. This amounts to the quintessential quest of these seemingly integrated religious minorities for assuring their minimal survival in the modern pattern of urban life.	2021/0401-2021/03/31
2021	Unraveling the Threads: Why does Congo represent the Future of the Globalized World Order?	Recent developments in the field of African studies have heightened the world’s interest to have a stable and prosperous Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that is capable to help Africa fulfil its economic potential in the 21st century, while offering at the same time great potential for profound change to humanity. This synthesis highlights the nature and extent of the DRC’s potentialities, and determine possible asymmetries and risks entailed in this process at the national, regional, and global levels. Analysis shows that the DRC has, regardless its geo-strategic position in the heart of Central Africa and immense natural ressources, long failed to act in concert and develop a transit economy in the sub-region. These shortcomings have been attributed to the country’s lack of political vision, political will, human and financial capacities, as well as the overall unpleasant regional climate. The study, therefore, provides a refine interpretative tool for understanding how the DRC represents the future of both African and global economic networks. Hence, its stabilization, pacification, and sustainable development, as well as its protection and power reinforcement are solely needed today, lest people in national and international spheres take advantage of the neglect to destroy the world’s ecosystem and humanity. Keywords: DRC, geo-strategic position, mineral ressources, stability, pacification, power reinforcement, National interests, global economic networks, ecosystem, humanity.	2021/04/01-2022/03/31
2018	Hidden Memories of the Mabie Chiefdom in Sakata land	The second Part II of this research focused on Royal family conflicts	2018/04/01-2019/013/31
2017	Historical and Socio-Cultural Aspects of the Mabie Chiefdom in Sakata Society (Congo DRC)	An anthropologica Study of the　Mabie Chiefdom in Sakata Lands	2017/4/1-2018/3/31
2017	Sakata Medicine and Folk Dance in Urban Settings	A medical anthropological study of Sakata Traditional Medicen A visual Anthropological study of the Sakata Folklore Dance in Urban Settings	2017/4/1-2018/3/31
2015	コンゴ東部における内戦―新植民地主義をめぐって	アフリカ研究会の活動	2015/04/01~2016/01/20
2014	コンゴ民主共和国における文化と首長生社会	コンゴの民族集団(特にサカタ族）の社会的組織と文化について現代の文化人類学の視点で分析、議論した。 （アフリカ研究会）	2014/04/01~2015/01/20
2013	アフリカの歴史と現状ーアフリカ諸国の発展が可能か	アフリカ研究会の活動	2013/04/01~2014/01/20

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研究活動／社会的活動

年度 Year	活動名称 Name of activities	活動期間 Period of Activities
2020	Mission Educational Research活動検討委員会の委員長	2020/10/01-2020/10/30
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） Preparation of the 2020 SVD Provincial Chapter and Workshop on "Mission in the Fields".
2020	The relationship between Human Beings and Cotton	2020/04/06-2021/01/24
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） Key Note lectures organized for Nanzan Students attending the courses of Ethnology, Multiculturalism, Sustainability, Ethnicity and Culture, Globalization Ethnicity, and Religion based on Collaborative Book Project " The relationship between Human Beings and Cotton".
2018	Anthropology of Japan in Japan	2018/12/08-2018/12/09
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） Preparation and Organization of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan Fall Meeting held at Nanzan University on the theme "Displacements and Potentials".
2018	African Association for the Sudy of Religions	2018/11/17-2018/11/23
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） Discussion on African Religions and Societies during the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
2017	Asian Studies in Africa	2017/7/20-2018/3/31
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） Outline of main research topics related to Asian Studies in Africa
2017	African Association for the Sudy of Religions	2017/11/18-2018/3/31
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） Compiling contemporary Issues of African Religions
2015	Aspects of the Interculturality	2015/04/10-2014/04/11
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） 文化の多様性をどういきるかを議論する ゲスト．スピカー（神言修道会・ザヴィエルハイズの教育活動）
2015	研究テーマ	2015/04/01-2016/03/31
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） 1. キリシタン神社の歴史と現状ー地域社会の宗教観をめぐってー (後の著書のため） 2. The Matrilineal Kinship Ideology and Religious Deterinants Identifying and Preserving Sakata Society (Article in completion) 3. Hidden Memories of the Mabi Chiefdom in the Sakata Lands, Congo (Book in completion) 4. Traditional Medecine and Shamanism in the Sakata lands, Congo (Article in completion) 5. サン・ジワン枯松神社ー歴史と現状ー 　(研究発表、論文） 6. Kakure Kirishitan Survivors: A Study of the Socio-cultural, Psycho-Religious and Spiritual　Constructs 　　(研究発表、論文） 7．Kirishitan Shrines and Festivals in Japan: Looking at the Religiosity of the Local Communities (研究発表、論文）. 7. Kirishitan Shrines and Festivals in Japan: Looking at the Religiosity of Local Communities. (研究発表、論文） Paper to be presented at the 9th International Convention of Asian Scholars, Adelaide (Australia), July 6, 2015 8. The Dancing Church of the Congo: Missionary Paths in a Changing Society. Revised Edition.
2015	WORKSHOP ON INTERCULTURALITY	2015/01/17-2015/02/04
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） Formation of Interculturality Resource Persons (Nemi-Rome, Italy)
2014	研究テーマ	2014/04/1-2015/03/31
	活動内容等（Content of Activities） 1. キリシタン神社の歴史と現状ー地域社会の宗教観をめぐってー (後の著書のため） 2. The Matrilineal Kinship Ideology and Religious Deterinants Identifying and Preserving Sakata Society (Article in completion) 3. Hidden Memories of the Mabi Chiefdom in the Sakata Lands, Congo (Book in completion) 4. Traditional Medecine and Shamanism in the Sakata lands, Congo (Article in completion) 5. サン・ジワン枯松神社ー歴史と現状ー 　(研究発表、論文） 6. Kakure Kirishitan in Urban Contexts: An Ethnographic of Survival Strateg 　　(研究発表、論文）

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著書・学術論文に関する統計情報

年度 Academic Year	学術研究著書の件数 No. of Academic Books	学会誌・国際会議議事録等に掲載された学術論文の件数 No. of Academic Articles in Journals/Int'l Conference Papers	学内的な紀要等に掲載された学術論文の件数 No. of Academic Articles Pub'd in University Bulletins	学会受賞等の受賞件数 No. of Academic Awards Received	国際学会でのゲストスピーカーの件数 No. of Times as Guest Speaker at Int'l Academic Conferences	国際学会での研究発表の件数 No. of Presentations of Papers at Int'l Academic Conferences	国内学会でのゲストスピーカーの件数 No. of Times as Guest Speaker at National Academic Conf.	国内学会での研究発表の件数 No. of Papers Presented at National Academic Conf.
2023	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1
2022	2	2	2	0	0	1	2	1
2021	1	4	0	0	0	1	1	0
2020	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
2019	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1
2018	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	1
2015	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
2014	1	0	0	0	0	0		1
2013	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
2012	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0

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