A Cross-National Comparative Research of Values and Religiosity of Contemporary People : Focusing on the Asian Perspective

这个协作和比较研究团队由实地调查和定性研究小组（由Ohmura Eishou管理）和问卷调查和定量研究小组（由Manabe Kazufiuni管理）组成。他们进行了以下研究。他们回顾了以前在日本和国外进行的关于价值观和宗教信仰的理论和实证研究的结果，并收集、储存和汇编了调查数据以及产生这些结果的相关材料。(2)他们提出了这一研究领域的方法问题，特别是确定在多国比较调查中如何观察和衡量宗教虔诚度的等同性问题，并提出了解决这些问题的方法。(3)他们在夏威夷和美国西海岸、韩国、台湾、冲绳和北欧，特别是瑞典进行了实地调查（观察和访谈），重点研究了该领域的当代和战略问题之一。这些研究是通过检查宗教情感和行为来完成的，并探索人们对人类骨灰的思考、感受和处理方式，这些骨灰是由火葬、动物葬礼、防腐和宠物死亡的使用增加而产生的。(4)在这些研究的基础上，策划、设计并实施了日本和德国的问卷调查，并从比较的角度分析了调查数据。

This collaborative and comparative research team is comprised of the Field Survey and Qualitative Research Group (managed by Ohmura Eishou) and the Questionnaire Survey and Quantitative Research Group (managed by Manabe Kazufiuni). They have conducted the following researches.(1) They reviewed of the results of both theoretical and empirical studies previously conducted in Japan and abroad on values and religiosity, and collected, stored, and compiled the survey data, and related materials that produced those results.(2) They presented the methodological problems in this field of research, particularly the identification of the problem of equivalence with regard to how religiosity is observed and measured in multi-national comparative survey, and proposed methods of solving those problems.(3) They conducted field surveys (observations and interviews) in Hawaii and the west coast of the US, South Korea, Taiwan, Okinawa, and Northern Europe, particularly Sweden, focused on one of the contemporary and strategic problems in the field of research. These were done by examing religious feelings and behaviors, and exploring the ways people think about, feel about, and handle the human ashes created by the incleased use of cremation, animal funerals, embalming, and pet loss.(4) Based on these researches they planned, designed and implemented the questionnaire survey in Japan and Germany, and analyzed the survey data from a comparative perspective.