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Funahashi Kenta

フナハシ ケンタ | Funahashi Kenta
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate Professor
Research field  (2): Local studies ,  Cultural anthropology and folklore
Research keywords  (10): 仏教 ,  改宗 ,  「不可触民」 ,  ダリト ,  インド ,  Buddhism ,  Conversion ,  'Untouchable' ,  Dalit ,  India
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (14):
  • 2023 - 2028 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and State Politics in India
  • 2022 - 2026 Political Analysis of Decentralisation and Centralisation: A Path toward Development and Restoration of Democracy as Revealed in 28 States of India
  • 2020 - 2023 Research on "Introspective Altruism" as the identity of people in the world, with a view to its implementation.
  • 2019 - 2023 Judicial Activism, Social Movement, and Sustainability of Liberal Democracy in Contemporary India
  • 2017 - 2023 「1960年代」の再検討:多様性と超域性の観点から
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Papers (13):
  • Funahashi, Kenta. Who Can Represent Minorities?: The Development and Impasse of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh. Effects and Future Potentials of Decentralized Development --Styles of Stable Democracy Analyzed through Comparative Studies of 29 States in India--. 2023. 87-96
  • FUNAHASHI Kenta. Local Leaders and Dalit Assertion in Contemporary India: A Study of Buddhist Movements in Uttar Pradesh. 2015 RINDAS International Conference Proceedings, "Rethinking Religion, Ethics, and Political Economy in India and Sri Lanka: Critical Perspectives from Japan". 2017. 4-14
  • 舟橋 健太. 留保のあとに-「不可触民」エリートたちの道. 部落解放. 2016. 723. 723. 30-39
  • FUNAHASHI Kenta. An Aspect of the "Secular-State" in Modern and Contemporary India : From a Case of Buddhist Conversion Movements(Secularism and Nation in Modern Asia: Toward a Post-Secularization Theory,Panels,Research Reports,THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES). Journal of religious studies. 2016. 89. 46-47
  • FUNAHASHI Kenta. Identifying with Buddhism: A Buddhist Movement and Buddhist Practices in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh. RINDAS International Symposium Series 3, "In Search of Well-being: Genealogies of Religion and Politics in India". 2014. 106-120
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MISC (11):
  • 舟橋 健太. [事典への寄稿]改宗仏教徒の世界. インド文化事典編集委員会(編)『インド文化事典』(丸善出版). 2018. 68-69
  • 舟橋 健太. [事典への寄稿]不可触民(ダリト). インド文化事典編集委員会(編)『インド文化事典』(丸善出版). 2018. 54-55
  • Shohyo : Suzuki Maya cho "Gendai Indo no kasuto to fukashokumin : toshi kasomin no esunogurafi" Keio gijuku daigaku shuppankai, 2015nen. 2017. 22. 151-156
  • 舟橋 健太. [雑誌への寄稿]変化と継続-現代インドにおける「改宗仏教徒」の生活実践の検討から-. 部落解放と大学教育. 2016. 29. 26-39
  • 舟橋 健太. [書評]「クレイグ・ジェフリー、『インド地方都市における教育と階級の再生産-高学歴失業青年のエスノグラフィー-』、佐々木宏・押川文子・南出和余・小原優貴・針塚瑞樹(共訳)、明石書店、2014年」. 南アジア研究. 2015. 27. 27. 105-111
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Books (22):
  • Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness
    Routledge 2023 ISBN:9781032327440
  • On the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies: Translating the Untranslatable
    Jinbunshoin 2022 ISBN:9784409041222
  • For Understanding of the Contemporary Asia
    Akashi Shoten 2022 ISBN:9784750353210
  • The Roots of Arts
    Koyoshobo 2022 ISBN:9784771036192
  • The Issues of the History of the Orient
    Minervashobo 2022 ISBN:9784623092178
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Lectures and oral presentations  (34):
  • Who can represent minorities?: The Development and Impasse of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh
    (International Workshop on State Politics in India 2022)
  • "The Rise of the 'Lower Strata People' in Contemporary India: The Emergence of Local Leaders and the Development of Social Movements"
    (2021 RINDAS Final Symposium 2021)
  • “As a Chamar and/or a Buddhist: ‘Caste’ among ‘Converted-Buddhists’ in Uttar Pradesh”
    (International Webinar, “Caste among Non-Hindus: Ideology, Institutions and Practices” (Research Committee-26, Indian Sociological Society) 2021)
  • "Buddhism as Hope: 'Converted Buddhists in Contemporary India"
    (2021)
  • “Expanding Identities and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of Dalit Converts to Buddhism in North India” (Panel: "Social Inclusion/exclusion in South Asia 2: Minorities”)
    (The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS11), Leiden University, THE NETHERLANDS 2019)
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Education (2):
  • 2002 - 2007 Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies
  • 1993 - 2002 Hokkaido University
Professional career (1):
  • Doctor (Area Studies)
Work history (11):
  • 2021/04 - 現在 Ryukoku University Faculty of Sociology Department of Sociology Associate Professor
  • 2012/04 - 現在 Kyoto Sangyo University Lecturer (part-time)
  • 2018/04 - 2020/03 Ryukoku University Faculty of Sociology, Department of Sociology Associate Professor
  • 2014/04 - 2018/03 National Institutes for the Humanities Center for Transdisciplinary Innovation Research Fellow
  • 2011/10 - 2018/03 Ryukoku University Lecturer (part-time)
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Committee career (2):
  • 2018/10 - 2022/09 The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies Director
  • 2018/10 - 2022/09 日本南アジア学会 常務理事
Association Membership(s) (4):
JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES ,  THE JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY ,  JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES ,  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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