Can the Divine Pollute? An Ethnographic Enquiry into Contemporary Buddhist Spirit Mediumship in Bangkok

神能污染吗？

• 批准号: 19K12955
• 负责人: Siani Edoardo
• 金额: $ 1.91万
• 依托单位: Kyoto University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K12955/
• 关键词: Buddhism; Religion; Thailand; Spirit mediums; Spirit mediumship; Bangkok; Purity and pollution

The JSPS funds enabled me to conduct multiple research trips to Thailand, where I successfully carried out short periods of fieldwork research with spirit mediums. During these periods, I collected data that both confirms and problematizes my proposed thesis, opening avenues for further research that I will carry out in the future when I am able to obtain new funds. The JSPS funds additionally enabled me to carry out trips to Europe, where I presented my tentative research fundings to international audiences. In Europe, Thailand as well as in Japan, I was also able to speak privately with specialists on Buddhism and spirit cults, who gave me usual comments about my ideas and research data. In London, I additionally carried out research using the resources kept at the British Library. Unfortunately, I had to return the funds for the second year of this project as I am leaving Kyoto University's CSEA because my contract has expired. As anticipated above, I nevertheless intend to continue carrying out this project and to publish my research results on international journals acknowledging the generous sponsorship received from JSPS. I also intend to publish this data in a book project on which I have already started working.

JSPS基金使我能够多次前往泰国进行研究，在那里我成功地与精神媒介进行了短期的实地研究。在此期间，我收集的数据既证实了我提出的论文，也提出了问题，为我将来能够获得新资金时进行的进一步研究开辟了道路。JSPS基金还使我能够前往欧洲，在那里我向国际观众介绍了我的初步研究资金。在欧洲、泰国和日本，我也能私下与佛教和邪教专家交谈，他们对我的想法和研究数据给出了通常的评论。在伦敦，我还利用大英图书馆的资源进行了研究。不幸的是，我不得不退还第二年的资金，因为我离开了京都大学的CSEA，因为我的合同已经到期。尽管如此，我还是打算继续进行这个项目，并在国际期刊上发表我的研究成果，以感谢JSPS的慷慨赞助。我还打算在我已经开始工作的图书项目中发布这些数据。