Report of International Symposium: National Identity and Religion (Alsace Symposium 2012)

<Date>
2-4 November 2012

<Venue>
Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA)

<Host Organizations>
Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS)
Le Département d’études japonaises de l’Université de Strasbourg
L’UMR 8155 Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (CRCAO)
Le Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA)

<Schedule>
2nd November
9:00
Opening Ceremony

9:30-10:15
Min Wang (Hosei University [Japan])
Two Examples of Cultural Compositness in Japanese Folk Culture:the Silk Road and the Cult of Yu the Great

10:15-11:00
Josef Kyburz (CNRS, UMR 8155 CRCAO [France])
The Lotus and the Chrysanthemum–Japan in a Flower

11:00-11:15
Intermission

11:15-12:00
Maciej Kanert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan [Poland])
Neither Nation, Nor Identity, Nor Religion–Japan in the 8th Century

13:30-14:15
Yusuke Takahashi (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum Kanazawa-bunko [Japan])
The Concept of the National Land, and the Syncretism of Kami Worship and Buddhism

14:15-15:00
Mart Teeuwen (University of Oslo [Norway])
Nation, Religion and Identiy according to a Late-Edo Samurai

15:00-15:30
Inermission

15:30-16:15
Frédéric Girard EFEO (France)
Le besoin d’un nouveau type de monastère pour le Bakufu de Kamakura

16:15-17:00
Jean-Pierre Berthon (CNRS, EHESS Centre de recherche sur le Japon [France])
Les nouvelles religions au prisme de l’identité nationale

17:00-18:00
General Discussion

3rd November
9:00-9:45
Hidetoshi Uchihara (Hosei University [Japan])
Utaki Religion in Yaeyama Islands: Focusing on the Case of the Sakishima Tsunami

9:45-10:30
Josef Kreiner (Hosei University [Japan])
The Religious Organization of the Rykyu Kingdom

10:30-11:00
Intermission

11:00-11:45
Frédéric Lesigne (University of Lyon [France])
Que dit l’ethno-folklorique japonaise de I’identité? Le Cas du village de Nagoshi In the dép. de Shiga

11:45-12:30
Masaru Sakamoto (Hosei University [Japan])
Views on Nature in Ancient Japanese Mythology

14:00-14:45
Junzo Kawada (Kanagawa University / Hosei University [Japan])
Déification des êtres humains au Japon: un motif pour penserl l’identité japonaise

14:45-15:30
Yusuke Suzumura (Hosei University [Japan])
Kiyozawa Manshi and His Criticism toward the Twofold Truth Theory

15:30-16:00
Intermission

16:00-16:45
Didier Davin (CRCAO [France])
De la marotte à la définition de soi: petote historie de la place du Zend Japon

16:45-17:45
General Discussion

4th November
9:00-9:45
Shin Abiko (Hosei University [Japan])
Etat moderne et religion– Nishi Amane et sa réflextion sur la religion

9:45-10:30
Tsutomu Hoshino (Hosei University [Japan])
Mujo (Impremance, Transience, Mutability): On Climate and the Religious Consciousness in Japan

10:30-10:40
Intermission

10:40-12:00
Cloture and Closing Ceremony

Executive Summary
In this year, there were 16 scholors from Japan, France, Poland, Norway made their presentation focusing on a relationship between religion and national identity in Japan. Result of the symposium will be published as a series of research monographs of HIJAS.