Religion in secular society. The research group 'Religion and Minority: Lived religion, migration and marginalities in secular society' is funded by ESRC and AHRC and develops long-term collaboration between researchers based at UK and Japan, working on ‘religious minority’ issues and on minority groups inside religious organisations.
It is led by
Erica Baffelli (Japanese Studies) and Takahashi Norihito (Tojo University).
The objective of the network is to investigate ‘marginality’ and the concept of ‘minority’ in religious contexts, both from the point of view of how minority groups are constructed and defined in different cultural and social contexts, and in terms of how marginalised groups use religion to construct their identity vis-à-vis the larger society and/or to negotiate their place inside religious traditions.
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