RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN JAPAN: RESEARCH NEEDS IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Kevin Cooney

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2013, vol. 11, issue 2, 74-81

Abstract: Today Japan is in many ways more religiously free than most Western nations, although levels of religiosity are also comparatively quite low. Key areas for research freedom related research include: the historical causes of Japan's astonishingly rapid turnaround post-World War II from a nation that actively discriminated against minority religious groups to one that supports religious freedom; religious freedom conditions in Japan's prisons and detention facilities; challenges of cultural integration of immigrants bringing greater religious diversity to Japan; faith-based charity and disaster relief; and the small but still worrisome faction of nationalist Japanese who are seeking to reestablish state-sponsored Shintoism.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2013.808035

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