Comparative Culture and Sociological Studies of Socially Engaged Religions

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We have conducted survey and field work of Socially Engaged Religions in Japan and overseas from the perspectives of Comparative religious and sociological studies, and then explained that such religious activities and institutions cultivates the sense of symbiosis, generosity, reciprocity, and public nature. Our efforts results in the publication, Keishi Inaba and Yoshihide Sakurai eds., Socially Engaged Religions,Sekaishisosha, 2009 and other papers and presentations in academic as well as public sphere. Consequently, this theme has been accepted in the sociology of religion in Japan.