Shintō, Buddhism and The Nihon Shinrei Gakkai (Japanese Society of Spiritualism) (event held online, in Japanese)

1^st Research Workshop on “Practice in Modernity”:

Date: 29 January 2022 (Sat.), 1pm-4pm

Programme:

1-1~10pm: preliminary explanations

1.10~1.40pm: “The Japanese Society for Spiritualism amid mind cures” (Hirano Naoko, Waseda University)

1.40~2.10pm: “’Shintō’ and ‘folklore’ in the Japanese Society for Spiritualism: In the footsteps of the editor, Nomura Mizuki” (Watari Yuki, Bukkyo University).

2.10~2.40pm: “Ōtani Kubutsu and the Japanese Society for Spiritualism” (Kurita Hidehiko, Bukkyo University).

2.40~2.50pm: break

2.50~3.05pm: comments by Kimura Yūnosuke (University of Tokyo)

3.05~3.20pm: comments by Iwata Fumiaki (Osaka Kyoiku University)

3.20~4.00pm: Q&A

Chair: Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University)

Sponsored by the following Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JSPS):

• Theosophy in post-WWII Japan: The development of occultism and Theosophy (Yoshinaga Shin’ichi)
• Modern Buddhism and folk mind cures: The modernization and globalization of practice (Kurita Hidehiko)
• Reconstructing the history of New Religions in Japan: Establishing an archive and building the foundations of a researchers’ network (Kikuchi Akira).