Faculty Information

■ Present specialized field

Sociology (Key Word：Sociology of Religion, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Suffering, Sociology of Disaster and Revitalization,Commemoration and Post-disaster Rituals,Sociology of Religion,Social Theory,Ritual Studies)

■ Academic background

1.	2000/04～2004/03	School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Graduated
2.	2008/04～2010/03	〔Doctorial Course (1st Semester)〕, Graduate School of Sociology, Master Course, Kwansei Gakuin University, Completed,
3.	2010/04～2014/03	〔Doctorial Course (2nd Semester)〕, Graduate School of Sociology, Ph.D Course, Kwansei Gakuin University, Completed, Ph. D (Sociology)

■ Business career

1.	2018/04～2020/03	Tohoku University Center for Northeast Asian Studies Assistant Professor
2.	2015/04～2018/03	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Graduate School of Tohoku University) Research Fellow (PD)
3.	2014/04～2015/03	Kwansei Gakuin University Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance Research Assistant
4.	2013/04～2014/03	Kwansei Gakuin University Graduate School Dissertation Fellow

■ Book and thesis

1.	2021/11	Book	Handbook of Disaster Ritual: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Cases and Themes. pp.177-189 (Collaboration)
2.	2020/03/14	Book	Ware Ware ga Saika wo Itamu Toki: Ireisai Tsuitoushiki no Syakaigaku (When We Reﬂect Upon the Disaster: Sociology of Post- disaster Ritual) (Single)
3.	2019/12/01	Article	Three-dimensional Measurement for the Revitalization of Intangible Cultural Properties after Disasters Journal of Disaster Research 14(9),pp.1329-1335 (Single)
4.	2018/06/01	Article	Theodicy of Suffering and Disaster Commemoration: Collective and Individual Religious Responses to the Tsunami in Aceh Religion and Society pp.65-80 (Single)
5.	2011/10/01	Article	When We Reflect upon the Disaster and the Dead: The Transition of Rituals in Nagasaki City Atomic Bomb Memorial Ceremony Soshioroji pp.77-94 (Single)
6.	2024/03/08	Book	Recalling the lost: disaster archive pp.234-260 (Collaboration)
7.	2023/06/24	Article	Brief Reviews of Recent Books: Gendai Syakai wo Syuukyou Bunka de Yomitoku Religion and Society pp.231-231 (Single)
8.	2022/12/31	Article	Empirical investigation of Factors for establishing a Temporary Disaster Waste Management Facility. Saigai Fukkou Kenkyu pp.99-110 (Collaboration)
9.	2022/03/31	Book	Western Japan Heavy Rain in 2018 and Society, A Report of Field Practice in Social Research 2021 (Collaboration)
10.	2022/03/31	Article	Report on the Investigation Based on a Questionnaire of Intangible Cultural Heritage Concerning the Influence of the Great East japan Earthauake Research and reports on intangible cultural heritage (16),pp.103-126 (Collaboration)
11.	2021/11	Book	Handbook of Disaster Ritual: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Cases and Themes. pp.510-513 (Collaboration)
12.	2021/06/30	Article	Author's Reply to the Book Review Soshioroji 66(1),pp.99-103 (Single)
13.	2021/03/11	Book	Lessons From the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: 51 Approaches to Disaster Science pp.111-114 (Collaboration)
14.	2021/01/31	Book	Door of disaster documentary film: on sharing memories and records of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake pp.72-95
15.	2019/12/01	Article	Review: 星野英紀・弓山達也編『東日本大震災後の宗教とコミュニティ』 Journal of Religious Studies pp.109-115 (Single)
16.	2019/07	Book	Religio-cultural Pluralism in Southeast Asia: Inter-communion, Localization, Syncretisation and Conflict. Edited by Nabil Chang-Kuan Lin　（査読付） pp.227-242 (Collaboration)
17.	2019/06/01	Article	Post-disaster Ritual as a Media Event The Association for Northeast Asian Studies Newsletter “Ushitora” pp.2-2 (Single)
18.	2019/03/01	Article	null null pp.169-173 (Single)
19.	2018/01/31	Book	Post-disaster Communities, Local Cultures and Ethnography: Towards the Development of Disaster Humanities pp.181-196 (Collaboration)
20.	2016/11/01	Article	Toward a Comparative Research of Post-disaster Rituals. Semong News 2016 pp.10-10 (Single)
21.	2015/12/01	Article	Book Review:：P.Post, R.L.Grimes, A.Nugteren, P.Pettersson and H.Zontag, 2003, Disaster Ritual: Exploration of an Emerging Ritual Repertoire, Peeters. Tohoku Journal of Religious Studies pp.109-117 (Single)
22.	2015/03/20	Book	Yoku Wakaru Syuukyougaku (Handbook of Religious Studies) pp.156-157 (Collaboration)
23.	2015/03/01	Article	Transition of Rituals in the Nagasaki City Atomic Bomb Memorial Ceremony International Journal of Japanese Sociology 24(1),pp.78-91 (Single)
24.	2014/12/01	Article	Symposium: Disaster and Religion［Panel Discussion］On "Arts of sorrow" Shinsai-Gaku pp.32-47 (Collaboration)
25.	2014/07/01	Article	null null pp.7-7 (Single)
26.	2014/06/01	Article	Book Review of Keishin Inaba and Hiroyuki Kurosaki (eds.) Religion and Social Capital Series IV Post-Disaster Recovery and Religion Religion and Society pp.172 (Single)
27.	2014/03/01	Article	A Sociological Study on Post-disaster Ritual in Contemporary Japanese Society Graduate School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University (Single)
28.	2013/11/01	Article	Research Note on Post-disaster Rituals of the Great East Japan Earthquake in Minamisanriku-Chou Annual Review of the Institute for Advanced Social Research pp.73-88 (Single)
29.	2013/10/01	Article	Review of Keishin Inaba and Hiroyuki Kurosaki (eds.) Religion and Social Capital Series IV Post-Disaster Recovery and Religion Religion and Social Contribution pp.79-84 (Single)
30.	2013/03/01	Article	Review of Kouta Ishii, Itai: Shinsai, Tsunami no Hate ni KG Sociological Review pp.53-54 (Single)
31.	2012/10/01	Article	Memories of War and Violence: The Way of Constructing Realities. Annual Review of the Institute for Advanced Social Research pp.108-110 (Single)
32.	2012/10/01	Article	Toward a Theory of Post-disaster Ritual : Case Studies of Irei-sai (memorial services) in Contemporary Japan Annual Review of the Institute for Advanced Social Research pp.73-89 (Single)
33.	2012/03/01	Article	Narrating Disaster: Stories of the 3.11 Tsunami of Folklore group in Miyagi Miyagi Minwa no Kai Sousyo pp.205-218 (Single)
34.	2012/03/01	Article	Sociology of / from the Edge : Exploring for Social Wise KG Sociological Review pp.51-56 (Collaboration)
35.	2011/01/01	Article	Disaster, Ritual, and Risk Society KG/GP Sociological Review pp.43-52 (Single)
36.	2010/06/01	Article	Belief, Place, and Body: Reasons Behind Ritual Practices in Modern Society KG/GP Sociological Review pp.37-45 (Single)
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2022/09/11	Aceh Tsunami Museum and Remains of 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake (Japanese Association for Religious Studies 81th Annual Conference)
2.	2020/02/20	Commemorations of the 2004 Tsunami by the religious minorities in Banda Aceh (The Practicalities and Ethics of Dealing with Disaster Remains and Cultural Heritage)
3.	2018/07/17	Toward the Interdisciplinary Studies of Disaster Humanities: Preserving Tangible and Intangible Folk Cultural Properties by Three-Dimensional Data (国際防災・危機管理研究岩手会議)
4.	2018/06/09	大海嘯的神義論：印尼亞齊海嘯災難追思紀念研究 (東南亞宗教文化多元研討會)
5.	2017/07/06	Theodicy of Tsunami: A Study of the Commemorations in Aceh, Indonesia (34th International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference)
6.	2017/03/24	The Cultural Meaning of Tsunami: A Case Study of the Commemorations in Aceh, Indonesia. ('Mobile Cultures of Disaster' Conference)
7.	2016/07/31	Contingency and Necessity of Tsunami: A Case Study of the commemoration in Aceh, Indonesia (63th Conference of Tohoku Sociological Society)
8.	2016/05/29	The meaning of tsunami: Comparative study of post-disaster ritual
9.	2016/02/07	null (The 3rd Study Group on Disaster Studies)
10.	2016/01/20	Comparing Memorial Ceremonies of Tsunami between Aceh and Tohoku (Aceh + Tohoku Disaster Museums and Archives for DDR: Toward Future Collaboration)
11.	2014/07/14	Uses of the Future: The Problem of Theodicy in Nagasaki (XVIII World Congress of Sociology)
12.	2014/06/22	Religion as a System of Practice: Promise of Salvation on Martin Riesebrodt (22th Conference of JASRS)
13.	2013/06/28	Disaster, Contingency, and Ritual / Desastres, imprevus et rites (32nd International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference)
14.	2012/11/23	Toward A Theory of Post-disaster Ritual (Workshop on Salvage and Salvation: Religion, Disaster Relief, and Reconstruction in Asia)
15.	2012/11/03	災禍の儀礼論に向けて――慰霊・追悼の社会学的研究
16.	2012/03/24	The Repertoire of the Post-disaster Rituals in Modern Japanese Society (The Power of Healing _ or the Healing of Power? A Critical Workshop on the Memory of War)
17.	2012/03/05	災禍の経験はいかに語られうるか――『第七回みやぎ民話の学校』における津波の語りを通して
18.	2011/09/11	Reflecting the Dead, Ordering the Past: Post-disaster Ritual in Nagasaki (The Tenth Death, Dying, and Disposal Conference)
19.	2011/02/03	When We Reflect Upon the Dead: Post-disaster Ritual in Nagasaki (Japanese Studies Graduate Summer School 2011)
20.	2011/01/09	Toward International Comparative Research of Post-disaster Rituals: from the Case Study of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Memorial Ceremony (The 4th Workshop on the Encounters of Young Scholars on Asian Studies)
21.	2010/04/25	Civil Religion in Contemporary Disaster Rituals (Anthropology of Japan in Japan Spring Workshop 2010)
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■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	2018/10/26	Sociology of Post-disaster Rituals
2.	2014/07/05	On "Arts of Sorrow" (Tohoku Gakuin University)

■ Research Field

1.	2021/06	The Association fo Indology and Study of Religion The Association fo Indology and Study of Religion Award (Fukuda, Yu. 2020, Ware Ware ga Saika wo Itamu Toki: Ireisai Tsuitoushiki no Syakaigaku (When We Reflect Upon the Disaster: Sociology of Post-disaster Ritual), Tokyo: Keio University Press. [JAPANESE])
2.	2012/11	The Japan Sociological Society Japan Sociological Society Prize ("When We Reflect upon the Disaster and the Dead: The Transition of Rituals in Nagasaki City Atomic Bomb Memorial Ceremony." In Soshioroji 56(2)), November 2011: 77-94.)

■ Activity in society

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2019/07

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■ Belonging society

1.	2018/04～	The Association fo Indology and Study of Religion
2.	2014/04～	JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
3.	2013/04～	International Sociological Association
4.	2012/07～	International Society for the Sociology of Religion
5.	2012/04～	THE JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
6.	2010/04～	THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

■ Committee and society

1.	2023/10/01～	Ocayama City Board of Education Social Education Committee
2.	2023/06/24～	The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society Editorial Board

■ NDSU

Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Disaster, Methods of Social Research III, Field Practice of Social Research,

■ telephone number

1.	u_fukuda[at]m.ndsu.ac.jp