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Tamon Morikawa
Section
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Job title
Assistant Professor
Degree

  • 博士（文学）（東北大学）

  • 修士（文学）（東北大学）

Research Areas 1

  • Humanities & social sciences / History of thought /

Research Projects 1

  1. A study of Motora Yujiro : intellectual history on the concept of religion

    Morikawa Tamon

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2015/04/01 - 2018/03/31

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    In this research we study the establishment and evolution of the concept of religion. Using Yujiro Motora’s writings, we consider the interval from the late Meiji to the Taisho period. During the early 1900 religion and education controversy, Motora recognised that religion appears naturally in human beings. He was greatly influenced by (1) J.T Gyuric who helped him obtain compatibility between scientific thinking and religious beliefs and (2) psychophysical theory, which had been just established during that period. His teachings of compatibility between "intelligence" and religion influencd many of the scholars of the following century, giving him a fundamental role in the creation of the concept of religion.