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Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology Department of Sociology, Ryukoku University

Degree: Doctor(Area Studies)

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901085332934558
researchmap Member ID: 5000031208

インドのダリト（「不可触民」）問題を主テーマに、調査研究に従事しています。主著は『現代インドに生きる〈改宗仏教徒〉―新たなアイデンティティを求める「不可触民」―』（昭和堂、2014年）。大阪府出身。北海道大学文学部卒業、同大学院文学研究科修士課程修了後、京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科博士課程に編入学し、学位（博士）を取得。

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2021 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology Department of Sociology, Ryukoku University
Apr, 2012 - Present

Lecturer (part-time), Kyoto Sangyo University
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Ryukoku University
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

Research Fellow, Center for Transdisciplinary Innovation, National Institutes for the Humanities
Oct, 2011 - Mar, 2018

Lecturer (part-time), Ryukoku University
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2014

Research Fellow, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2012

Researcher (Global COE), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2011

Research Scholar, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences, Japan Women's University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2008

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2007

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Mar, 2004 - Feb, 2006

Foreign Research Affiliation, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Education

Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2007

Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Apr, 1993 - Mar, 2002

Hokkaido University

Committee Memberships

Oct, 2018 - Sep, 2022

Director, The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies
Oct, 2018 - Sep, 2022

常務理事, 日本南アジア学会

Papers

Who Can Represent Minorities?: The Development and Impasse of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh

Funahashi, Kenta

Effects and Future Potentials of Decentralized Development --Styles of Stable Democracy Analyzed through Comparative Studies of 29 States in India--, 87-96, Mar, 2023 Lead author
Local Leaders and Dalit Assertion in Contemporary India: A Study of Buddhist Movements in Uttar Pradesh

FUNAHASHI Kenta

2015 RINDAS International Conference Proceedings, "Rethinking Religion, Ethics, and Political Economy in India and Sri Lanka: Critical Perspectives from Japan", 4-14, Mar, 2017 Lead author
留保のあとに―「不可触民」エリートたちの道

舟橋健太

部落解放, 723(723) 30-39, Mar, 2016 Lead author
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)

FUNAHASHI Kenta

Journal of religious studies, 89 46-47, 2016 Lead author
Identifying with Buddhism: A Buddhist Movement and Buddhist Practices in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh

FUNAHASHI Kenta

RINDAS International Symposium Series 3, "In Search of Well-being: Genealogies of Religion and Politics in India", 106-120, Mar, 2014 Lead author
Living as a 'Minority': A case of Buddhist-Dalits in contemporary Uttar Pradesh

FUNAHASHI Kenta

The South Asianist, 2(1) 28-39, Mar, 2013 Peer-reviewedLead author
Editorial: Social Movements and the Subaltern in Postcolonial South Asia

ISHIZAKA Shinya, FUNAHASHI Kenta

The South Asianist, 2(1) 3-8, Mar, 2013
Negotiating with 'Caste': A Case of Buddhist-Dalits in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh

FUNAHASHI Kenta

RINDAS International Symposium Series 1, "Voices for Equity: Minority and Majority in South Asia", 19-27, Mar, 2011 Lead author
現代インドの「改宗仏教徒」―ウッタル・プラデーシュ州における「不可触民」のアイデンティティの諸相―

舟橋健太

博士［京都大学（地域研究）］, Sep, 2010 Peer-reviewedLead author
［雑誌への寄稿］アンベードカルとガンディー―カーストの位置づけ―

舟橋健太

季刊民族学, 131 26-31, Jan, 2010 Lead author
Religious 'Border' Crossing and Their Practices:A Case of 'Converted-Buddhists' in Contemporary North India

Funahashi Kenta

Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, 2009 24-24, 2009 Lead author
仏教徒として／チャマールとして―北インド、ウッタル・プラデーシュ州における「改宗仏教徒」の事例から―

舟橋健太

南アジア研究, 19(19) 60-80, Dec, 2007 Peer-reviewedLead author
ダリットをめぐる「語り」と運動―「ロマンティシズム」と「反－ロマンティシズム」―

舟橋健太

研究論集, 1 3-23, Dec, 2001 Peer-reviewedLead author

Misc.

［事典への寄稿］改宗仏教徒の世界

舟橋健太

インド文化事典編集委員会（編）『インド文化事典』（丸善出版）, 68-69, Jan, 2018 Invited
［事典への寄稿］不可触民（ダリト）

舟橋健太

インド文化事典編集委員会（編）『インド文化事典』（丸善出版）, 54-55, Jan, 2018 Invited
Shohyo : Suzuki Maya cho "Gendai Indo no kasuto to fukashokumin : toshi kasomin no esunogurafi" Keio gijuku daigaku shuppankai, 2015nen

(22) 151-156, Jul, 2017
［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―

舟橋健太

部落解放と大学教育, 29 26-39, Mar, 2016
［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」

舟橋健太

南アジア研究, 27(27) 105-111, Dec, 2015
［教科書への寄稿］インド仏教

舟橋健太

櫻井義秀・平藤喜久子（編）『よくわかる宗教学』（やわらかアカデミズム〈わかる〉シリーズ、ミネルヴァ書房）, 86-87, Mar, 2015
［事典への寄稿］「ネオ・ブッディズム」

舟橋健太

世界宗教百科事典編集委員会（編）（編集委員長井上順孝）『世界宗教百科事典』（丸善出版株式会社）, 536-537, Dec, 2012 Invited
［用語集への寄稿］「グローカリゼーション」、「改宗」、「インデックス／指数」、「個人主義」、「差別」、「自我／自己」、「聖と俗」、「浄と不浄」、「ダリト」、「不可触民」、「留保制度」

舟橋健太

東長靖・石坂晋哉（編）、『講座生存基盤論6 持続型生存基盤論ハンドブック』（京都大学学術出版会）, Nov, 2012 Invited
［事典への寄稿］ダリト

舟橋健太

辛島昇他（監修）『新版南アジアを知る事典』（平凡社）, 481-482, May, 2012 Invited
［事典への寄稿］｢不可触民」論

舟橋健太

小松和彦・田中雅一他（編）『文化人類学文献事典』（弘文堂）, 828, Dec, 2004 Invited
［書評］"Vasant Moon, Growing Up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001"

舟橋健太

地域研究スペクトラム, 9 36-39, Mar, 2003

Books and Other Publications

Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia: Living through the Age of Hope and Precariousness

Matsuo, Mizuho, Nakamura Sae, Funahashi, Kenta (Role: Editor)

Routledge, Feb, 2023 (ISBN: 9781032327440)
On the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies: Translating the Untranslatable

Isomae, Jun'ichi, Asad, Talal, Sakai, Naoki, Pradhan, Gouranga Charan (Role: Sole translator, "Translation and the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies" (pp. 133-157)) (Original Author(s): Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak)

Jinbunshoin, Dec, 2022 (ISBN: 9784409041222)
For Understanding of the Contemporary Asia

Sato, Shiro, Ishizaka, Shinya (Role: Contributor)

Akashi Shoten, Mar, 2022 (ISBN: 9784750353210)
The Roots of Arts

Aoki, Eriko (Role: Contributor)

Koyoshobo, Mar, 2022 (ISBN: 9784771036192)
The Issues of the History of the Orient

(Role: Contributor)

Minervashobo, Jan, 2022 (ISBN: 9784623092178)
The Structure of Discrimination and the Nation State: Religion and Publicness

(Role: Contributor)

Hozokan, Nov, 2021 (ISBN: 9784831857217)
55 Chapters for Traveling India

Miyamoto, Hisayoshi, Konishi, Kodai (Role: Contributor)

Akashi Shoten, Jun, 2021 (ISBN: 9784750352077)
India, the Bared World

Tanaka, Masakazu, Ishii, Miho, Yamamoto, Tatsuya (Role: Contributor)

Shumpusha, Mar, 2021 (ISBN: 9784861106651)
Welcom to the South Asian Studies

Ishizaka, Shinya, Une, Yoshimi, Funahashi, Kenta (Role: Joint editor)

Showado, Apr, 2020 (ISBN: 9784812219188)
『宗教と開発の人類学――グローバル化するポスト世俗主義と開発言説』、石森大知・丹羽典生（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 第10章「よりよい生を求めて――インド、｢不可触民｣の解放実践と仏教改宗」)

春風社, Jun, 2019
Law and Democracy in Contemporary India: Constitution, Contact Zone, and Performing Rights, Tatsuya Yamamoto and Tomoaki Ueda (eds.)

FUNAHASHI Kenta (Role: Contributor, Rethinking the Reservation System in Contemporary India: A Local Point of View)

Palgrave Macmillan, Dec, 2018 (ISBN: 9783319958361)
『変貌と伝統の現代インド――アンベードカルと再定義されるダルマ』、嵩満也（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 「仏教とともに生きて―現代ウッタル・プラデーシュ州における仏教運動と仏教実践」)

法藏館, Mar, 2018
Rethinking Social Exclusion in India (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies), Minoru Mio and Abhijit Daspugta (eds.)

FUNAHASHI Kenta (Role: Contributor, Chapter 5, “Excluding themselves? Dalits converting to Buddhism”)

Routledge, Aug, 2017
『国際学入門―言語・文化・地域から考える―』、佐島隆・佐藤史郎・岩崎真哉・村田隆志（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 第12章「｢不可触民｣の仏教改宗運動」)

法律文化社, Jun, 2015
『アジアの社会参加仏教―政教関係の視座から―』（現代宗教文化研究叢書5）、櫻井義秀・外川昌彦・矢野秀武（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 第16章「近現代インドの仏教に見る｢社会性｣―Ｂ・Ｒ・アンベードカルの仏教解釈から現代インドの仏教改宗運動まで―」)

北海道大学出版会, Mar, 2015
『現代インド５周縁からの声』、粟屋利江・井坂理穂・井上貴子（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 第1章「現代ダリト運動の射程―｢エリート｣の台頭と意義―」（鈴木真弥との共著）)

東京大学出版会, Mar, 2015
『インドの社会運動と民主主義―変革を求める人びと』、石坂晋哉（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 第5章「過去を同定する―ダリト運動における歴史―」)

昭和堂, Feb, 2015
『現代インドに生きる〈改宗仏教徒〉―新たなアイデンティティを求める「不可触民」―』

舟橋健太

昭和堂, Feb, 2014 (ISBN: 9784812213575)
『カーストから現代インドを知るための３０章』、金基淑（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 第11章「ジャート〈ウッタル・プラデーシュ州〉――土地とともに生きる」、第27章「改宗仏教徒とカースト〈ウッタル・プラデーシュ州〉――平等を求めて」、［コラム9］「アンベードカルとカースト」)

明石書店, Aug, 2012
『講座生存基盤論第3巻人間圏の再構築―熱帯社会の潜在力―』、速水洋子・西真如・木村周平（編）

舟橋健太 (Role: Contributor, 第7章「平等を求めて―現代インドにおける｢改宗仏教徒｣の事例から―」)

京都大学学術出版会, Mar, 2012

Presentations

Who can represent minorities?: The Development and Impasse of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh

Funahashi, Kenta

International Workshop on State Politics in India, Nov 12, 2022
"The Rise of the 'Lower Strata People' in Contemporary India: The Emergence of Local Leaders and the Development of Social Movements"

Funahashi, Kenta

2021 RINDAS Final Symposium, Dec 5, 2021
“As a Chamar and/or a Buddhist: ‘Caste’ among ‘Converted-Buddhists’ in Uttar Pradesh”

Funahashi, Kenta

International Webinar, “Caste among Non-Hindus: Ideology, Institutions and Practices” (Research Committee-26, Indian Sociological Society), Nov 10, 2021
"Buddhism as Hope: 'Converted Buddhists in Contemporary India"

Funahashi, Kenta

Jun 23, 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”)

FUNAHASHI Kenta

The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS11), Leiden University, THE NETHERLANDS, Jul 17, 2019
「現代インドにおけるダリトの現状と課題 ―｢改宗仏教徒｣の事例から―」

舟橋健太

第86回マイノリティ研究会（於：龍谷大学大阪梅田キャンパス）, Jul 7, 2019
コメント「日本南アジア学会記念30周年連続シンポジウム『ヒンドゥイズム再考：前近代インド社会における宗教的混淆について』」

舟橋健太

日本南アジア学会第31回全国大会（於：金沢歌劇座）, Sep 30, 2018
"Assertion and Negotiation: Religious Practices of Buddhist Dalits in Uttar Pradesh"

FUNAHASHI Kenta

International Conference on Governance for the Margins (with special reference to South Asia), Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh, India, Feb 5, 2018 Invited
“A Saint of Identity and Connection: Believers of Ravidas in Uttar Pradesh, India”, (Panel: “Behind and Beyond the Politicization: The Communities, Environment, and Religions in India Today”)

FUNAHASHI Kenta

The Tenth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), The Chiang Mai International Exhibition and Convention Centre, Chiang Mai, THAILAND, Jul 20, 2017
“Reservation System and Local Politics: A Case of Western Uttar Pradesh”

FUNAHASHI Kenta

International Seminar on “State Politics, Governance and Development in India”, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, INDIA, Dec 28, 2016
「現代インドにおける宗教をめぐる状況と課題―仏教と仏教徒の社会における位置―」

舟橋健太

東アジア仏教文化学会 “History and Future of Korea-India Cultural Exchange”, Tong Myoung University, Busan, KOREA, Nov 4, 2016 Invited
“Rethinking the Reservation Policy in Contemporary India: A Local Point of View”, RC48: Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change, “Reimagining Human Rights in India”

FUNAHASHI Kenta

The 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA, Jul 13, 2016
“Local Leaders and Dalit Assertion in Contemporary India: A Study of Buddhist Movements in Uttar Pradesh”

FUNAHASHI Kenta

2015 INDAS-UCB International Conference, “Rethinking Religion, Ethics, and Political Economy in India and Sri Lanka: Critical perspectives from Japan”, Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Feb 16, 2016
“An Aspect of the ‘Secular-State’ in Modern and Contemporary India: From a Case of Buddhist Conversion Movements”, (Panel: “Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Asia: Toward a Post-Secularization Theory”)

FUNAHASHI Kenta

74th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies (Soka University), Sep 15, 2015
“Buddhist Conversion Movements and Their ‘Socialness’ in Contemporary India: From the Perspective of ‘Engaged Buddhism’”, (Panel:“Social Movements in South Asia: The Interface between Global Values and Grassroots Power”)

FUNAHASHI Kenta

International Convention of Asia Scholars 9, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA, Jul 8, 2015
「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―」

舟橋健太

全国大学同和教育研究協議会・2015春季公開企画、シンポジウム「南アジアの不可触民」（於：大阪人権博物館(リバティおおさか)）, Jun 14, 2015 Invited
“Continuity or Discontinuity: Negotiating Identities in a Case of ‘Converted-Buddhists' in Uttar Pradesh”

FUNAHASHI Kenta

Shiv Nadar University (SNU) and Contemporary India Area Studies (INDAS) Conference, “Perspectives, Dialogues and Challenges: India, Japan and the Making of Modern Asia”, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, INDIA, Dec 15, 2014
「現代インドにおける仏教改宗運動と｢社会性｣―｢エンゲイジド・ブッディズム｣の観点から」（テーマセッション「南アジアの社会運動―グローバルな価値観と草の根の力の接合点」）

舟橋健太

第87回日本社会学会大会（於：神戸大学）, Nov 22, 2014
「ウッタル・プラデーシュ州における仏教徒ダリトの宗教実践」

舟橋健太

2014年度BARC・RINDAS共催ワークショップ「南アジアの仏教徒―アイデンティティと越境」（於：龍谷大学）, Jul 12, 2014
“Identifying with Buddhism: A Buddhist Movement and Buddhist Practices in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh”

FUNAHASHI Kenta

NIHU Program, Contemporary India Area Studies, International Symposium, “In Search of Well-being: Genealogies of Religion and Politics in India” (Ryukoku University), Dec 15, 2013

Teaching Experience

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and State Politics in India

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2028
Political Analysis of Decentralisation and Centralisation: A Path toward Development and Restoration of Democracy as Revealed in 28 States of India

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2026
Research on "Introspective Altruism" as the identity of people in the world, with a view to its implementation.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023
Judicial Activism, Social Movement, and Sustainability of Liberal Democracy in Contemporary India

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2023
「1960年代」の再検討：多様性と超域性の観点から

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2023

大八木豪, 幸田直子, Schieder Chelsea, 舟橋健太
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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2023

FUNAHASHI Kenta
Results and Potentials of Decentralized Development: Comparative Studies of 29 States in India to Understand the Shape for Democratic Stability

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2022
An Investigation of the Changes of Contemporary India through the Rise of People in the Lower Strata and Local Leaders

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2019

FUNAHASHI Kenta
A Historical Origin of Indian Democracy: B. R. Ambedkar's Thought Around the Period of Independence and the Influence of John Dewey

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Nagasaki Nobuko, SHINODA Takashi, TANABE Akio, ISHII Kazuya, FUNAHASHI Kenta, ISHIZAKA Shinya, PANDEY Gyan, BOSE Sugata
Interdisciplinary studies on dynamics of laws and rights in the contemporary south Asian societies

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

Yamamoto Tatsuya, ITAKURA Kazuhiro, SUZUKI Shinsuke
State Politics of India at the Time of Globalisation: Comparative Analysis of All the 28 States on Development, Ecology and Violence

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2017

YOSHIDA OSAMU, ITO YU, OGAWA MICHIHIRO, KONISHI KODAI, KONDO NORIO, MORI YUKO, WADA KAZUYA, SATO HITOMI
From Gandhi to Ambedkar: In Search of Equality in a Society of Diversity

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

NAGASAKI Nobuko, SHINODA Takashi, AWAYA Toshie, ISHIZAKA Shinya, UEDA Tomoaki, FUNAHASHI Kenta
Social Movements and Democracy in Postcolonial India

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2014

ISHIZAKA Shinya, ISHII Miho, SHIGA Miwako, KIMURA Makiko, SUGIMOTO Kiyoshi, FUNAHASHI Kenta, MATSUO Mizuho, KOJIMA Nobuyoshi, SUZUKI Maya, NAKAMIZO Kazuya, YAMAMOTO Tatsuya
An Anthropological Study about Buddhist Movements and Life Practices of 'Untouchables' in Contemporary North India

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2012

Kenta FUNAHASHI

Social Activities

REC Community College

Lecturer

Ryukoku University, Jun, 2015 - Nov, 2019