A5075680492- Chinese history and philosophy
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Japanese History and Culture
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Urban and spatial planning
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
- Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Religious Education and Schools
- Education and Islamic Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Halal products and consumer behavior
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Hiroshima University
2021-2023
Hiroshima University of Economics
2022
Institut za filozofiju
2021
University of Ljubljana
2015-2021
Yamaguchi Prefectural University
2017
With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated motives that underlie support for preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized associations empathic prosocial concern and fear disease towards would be moderated by trust government. Results suggest association between was strongest when government weak (both at individual-...
Journeys, labeled pilgrimages, appear to be flourishing in many parts of the world, not least owing advances transportation and communication technologies growing tourism industries. However, surprisingly little research covers role played by travel agencies their professional tour leaders organizing, carrying out, even transforming pilgrimage as a religious practice. In this article, I examine mediators between people priests. Slovenia, are launching pilgrimages led so-called “spiritual...
Abstract Although many scholars date the onset of Anthropocene to Industrial Revolution or post-1945 ‘Great Acceleration’, there is growing interest in understanding earlier human impacts on earth system. Research ‘Palaeoanthropocene’ has investigated role fire, agriculture, trade, urbanisation and other anthropogenic impacts. While increasing consensus that such were more important than previously realised, geographical variation during Palaeoanthropocene remains poorly understood. Here, we...
Located in the north-western part of Kyushu, “Hidden Christians Sites Nagasaki Region” were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site 2018. This serial property consists twelve sites, including Christian villages that bear unique testimony to cultural tradition nurtured under long period religious prohibition. Based on fieldwork research at Kirishitan Hirado City, this paper shows how global conservation strategies affect local people and sustainability their tradition. Comparing Japanese...
Abstract The current study investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviorsin a large, cross-cultural sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized associations empathic prosocial concern and fear disease, with towards behaviors would be moderated by individual-level country-level trust in government. Results suggest association between disease was strongest when government weak (both at individual country-level). Conversely, high, but this...
The aging of the population, lonely deaths (kadokushi), single-member households, and weak local bonds have been given as signs that Japan is now a “relationless society”, or muen shakai. term shakai has used by media to describe society in which social isolation intensified because lack connection between immediate family members, more distant relatives, community. On other hand, some sociological religious studies on Japanese shown it precisely this awakens need for networking, even...
V zahodnih študijah religije se v zadnjem času religijo razumeva kot spreminjajoče prakse ljudi, in ne skupek prepričanj doktrino, ki jim verniki sledijo. To še posebej drži za japonsko religijsko konstelacijo, kjer je bogato prakticiranje različnih religij vselej prednjačilo pred pripadnostjo dogmam verskim institucijam. Raziskovalci so taki religioznosti opazili spodbudne elemente razvoj moderne kapitalistične družbe. Članek podrobno prikaže, kako Webrove teze o vplivu na družbe sprejemali...
With the implementation of mandatory Buddhist temple registration system in Tokugawa period, some temples gained stable, economic support for providing funerary services. Without this had to focus their activities on secular needs ordinary people. The popular deities with healing powers and associated miracles became main asset these temples. paper, by comparing early-modern (post) modern worship at Soto Zen Koganji Tokyo shows that not only trans-sectarian trans-national appropriation...