case studies 2011 Japan, disaster reconstruction

This special issue of the online journal includes 3 articles that focus on Japan after the disasters of 1995 (Kobe earthquake) and 2011. As well, there are two short video links.

Asian Ethnology. Guest edited by Philip Fountain, Levi McLaughlin, Patrick Daly, and Michael Feener. 

The authors suggest new theoretical perspectives on guiding frameworks such as "religion," "disaster," "development," and "Asia" as they provide case studies of religious responses to recent disaster events in Asia. Many of the special issue's articles focus on Japan. In particular, the pieces by McLaughlin, Miichi, and Graf discuss ways Japanese religion has transformed in the wake of the 1995 and 2011 disasters.

The articles in the issue are as follows:

• FOUNTAIN, PHILIP, AND LEVI MCLAUGHLIN

  Salvage and Salvation: Guest Editors' Introduction [1-28] Vol 75:1 2016

• BENTHALL, JONATHAN

  Puripetal Force in the Charitable Field [29-51] Vol 75:1 2016

• SAMUELS, JEFFREY

  Buddhist Disaster Relief: Monks, Networks, and the Politics of Religion [53-74] Vol 75:1 2016

• BHATTACHARJEE, MALINI

  Sevā, Hindutva, and the Politics of Post-Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction in Rural Kutch [75-104] Vol 75:1 2016

• MCLAUGHLIN, LEVI

  Hard Lessons Learned: Tracking Changes in Media Presentations of Religion and Religious Aid Mobilization after the 1995 and 2011 Disasters in Japan [105-137] Vol 75:1 2016

• MIICHI, KEN

  Playful Relief: Folk Performing Arts in Japan after the 2011 Tsunami [139-162] Vol 75:1 2016

• FOUNTAIN, PHILIP

  Mennonite Disaster Relief and the Interfaith Encounter in Aceh, Indonesia [163-190] Vol 75:1 2016

• FEENER, R. MICHAEL, AND PATRICK DALY

  Religion and Reconstruction in the Wake of Disaster [191-202] Vol 75:1 2016

• GRAF, TIM

  Research Note: Documenting Religious Responses to 3.11 on Film [203-219] Vol 75:1 2016

• In addition, Tim Graf (Heidelberg) produced two short vignettes to accompany the issue. The first documents a new festival at the temple Jōnenji that grew out of temple-based relief efforts after the March 11, 2011 tsunami in northeast Japan, and the second introduces a training program for "interfaith chaplains" that is led primarily by Buddhist priests and is now underway at Tōhoku University in Sendai.
  
  Asian Ethnology is open source. Please click on the link below and select "Vol. 75" for Salvage and Salvation. Click on the Vimeo links for Graf's film vignettes:
  
  http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/./asian-ethnology/listofjournals/
  
  
• https://vimeo.com/141396760 and https://vimeo.com/141380269