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In brief

The “religious culture specialist” certification system is managed by the Center for Education in Religious Education (CERC) which was established in January 2011.
The CERC’s steering committee and collaborators’ team involve the expertise of several dozens of educators who conduct research on religious cultures at national, public and private universities.
In addition, the CERC is affiliated with the Japanese Association for Religious Studies (approx. 2,000 members) and the Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society (approx. 500 members).

Development

Forming of an exploratory committee inside the Japanese Association for Religious Studies and of a working group inside the Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society (both authorized by the respective associations in 2007) in order to consider the establishment of a certification system for ‘religious culture specialists’ (provisional title) which would substantiate religious culture education at university level.

The three-year (2008-2010) project called ‘building an evaluation system for the substantiation of religious culture education at university level’ was granted a grant-in-aid for scientific research [A] by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. (The research team was headed by Professor Hoshino Eiki, Taisho University).
Research is under way by seven research teams and the research results can be seen at the following website: http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shukyobunka/index.html

Structure

The structure of the CERC is as follows:

Center’s Director
INOUE Nobutaka (Kokugakuin University)

Executive Director
YAMANAKA Hiroshi (University of Tsukuba)

Steering Committee
HIRAFUJI Kikuko (Kokugakuin University)Assistant Executive Director
HOSHINO Seiji (Kokugakuin University)Assistant Executive Director
AONO Kazuhiko (Tamagawa University)
IIJIMA Shuji (Kyushu University)
ITAI Masanari (Kogakkan University)
IWAI Hiroshi (Tezukayama University)
IWANO Yusuke (Kwansei Gakuin University)
OKADA Masahiko (Tenri University)
KAWASHIMA Kenji (Tohoku Gakuin University)
KIMURA Toshiaki (Tohoku University)
KUROSAKI Hiroyuki (Kokugakuin University)
SAKURAI Yoshihide (Hokkaido University)
SASAKI Hiroko (Shirayuri University)
SHAKU Tesshu (Soai University)
SUGIOKA Takanori (Ryukoku University)
TAKAI Kensuke (Kanto Gakuin University)
DOI Kenji (Kwansei Gakuin University)
DOI Hiroto (Tuskuba University)
NISHIMURA Akira (The University of Tokyo)
FUJIWARA Satoko (The University of Tokyo)
HOSHINO So (Taisho University)
MIO Yuko (Keio University)
MIKI Hizuru (Osaka International University)
MIYAMOTO Yotaro (Kansai University)
MURAKAMI Kokyo (Taisho University)
YAGI Kumiko (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
YANO Hidetake (Komazawa University)
YUMIYAMA Tatsuya (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Auditors
SAKURAI Haruo (Kogakkan University)
TAJIMA Tadaatsu(The Research Center for Moral Science)

Secretariat and Research
ODAKA Ayako
FUJII Shuhei
MAKITA Koure

Collaborators
(approximately scores of collaborators from every university)

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