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| 2004年度の神道エッセイ・コンテストには3ヶ国(3編)から応募がありました。神道国際学会役員による審査の結果、今回の入賞者は次ぎの通りと決定しました。一等賞(賞金1,000米ドル)、二等賞(賞金500米ドル)、奨励賞(賞金100米ドル)が1名に贈られることになりました。 |
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一等賞
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Tatsuma Padoan (University of Venice, Italy)
“Shinto and Economy”
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Receiving
the First Prize in the 2004 Shinto Essay Competition
is for me a great honor and an invaluable encouragement
for my studies. The topic proposed by the ISF
about the relationship between Shinto and Economy
has been a stimulating challenge for me, for it
spurred me on improving my knowledge about Japanese
religions, envisioning this phenomenon from an
unexpected, but absolutely important, point of
view. Studying religions by means of a socio-economical
perspective brings our attention on cultural dynamics
that lay at the very bases of human society, and
gives us an idea of how important the religious
phenomenon is for all the different cultures,
as one of the fundamental needs of the human genre.
I am very grateful to the jurors for their decision
to select my essay for such an important award.
Finally I wish to really thank the ISF for having
organized this competition, in its continuous
effort to promote a wider understanding of a religion,
the Shinto, that could offer to our so-tormented
contemporary world a message of peace and reciprocal
respect, in which, quoting the words of the recently
deceased great orientalist prof. Fosco Maraini,
"the divine speaks always and everywhere,
in the nature and in the human life around us.
All is presented as Revelation, it is sufficient
to hear, to see and to read it." |
二等賞
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Tai Wei Lim (Singapore, Cornell University,
U.S.A.)
“Shinto’s encounter with Christianity”
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奨励賞
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FrassMinggi Kamasa (Indonesia, Yonsei University,
Korea)
“Shinto issue on the Japanese daily life”
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