Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Field Research: Religion & Japanese Students



Religion: We went to the University November festival and we decided to ask as many people as we can about their religious beliefs and events related to religion. We managed to ask 15 people:
* 13 out of 15 claimed that they are not religious (the other 2 said that they are Buddhist but only because their family is Buddhist)
* 14 out of 15 claimed that they take part in the religious events, such as:
- Hatsumode (New Year`s celebration) 11
- Christmas 11
- Shichi-go-san 9 out of 9 asked
- O-bon (the dead people memorial festival) 12

We also asked about the marriage, if they would like it to be traditional Shinto style or a western church style. We only managed to ask 6 people, all of them girls. 3 of them stated that they want it to be a western style wedding and 3 said that they are interested in both, but they only consider to have a Shinto wedding because it is a Japanese tradition to do so.

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