Profiles

Assistant Professor SAZAKI Ai
Affiliations :
- Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
- Division of Department of Integrated Human Sciences
- Social and Human Sciences Course
- Department of Behavioral Science


- Research, History
- Books, papers, etc.
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- Personal History
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Graduated from the Department of Japanese Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Hokkai-Gakuen University.
Received an M.A and a Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
- Degree
- Ph.D (Literature)
- Field
- Religious Studies; Religious Folklore; Religious Anthropology
- Research Subject
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Funeral practices and Memorial service for the dead of the Orthodox Church in Japan
Reception of Christianity in Japan
Transformations of the contemporary religious culture
- Keywords
- Contemporary changes in memorial service; the Orthodox Church in Japan
- Affiliation
- Japanese Association for Religious Studies; The Folklore Society of Japan; The Association for lndology and Study of Religion
- Database of Researchers Information
- https://www.r-info.tohoku.ac.jp/ja/afe5550ea0414c4ee2eac700bb9b3434.html
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- Academic Papers
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“〈Remembrances of Dead〉in the Orthodox Church in Japan,” in Ronshu: Studies in Religions East and West, No. 46 (2019), The Association for Indology and Study of Religion, 147-168
“Materiality of the objects placed on the home altar― Through comparison of home altars in the Orthodox church in Japan," in Tohoku Journal of Religious Studies, No. 15 (2019), Department of Religious Studies, Tohoku University, 141-176
“Views about memorials of priests and believers―from “The Wooden Cross” of the Orthodox Church in Nakaniida,” in Bulletin of the Folklore Society of Tohoku (Tohoku Minzoku), No. 52 (2018), The Folklore Society of Tohoku, 89-98
“Acceptance and the present situations of the Orthodox Church in Japan viewed from “Monthly Panikhida,” Tohoku Journal of Religious Studies, No. 13 (2017), Department of Religious Studies, Tohoku University, 81-108