J\u2019ai le plaisir de vous faire part de la conf\u00e9rence d’Inken Prohl (professeure \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Heidelberg), intitul\u00e9e \u00ab Making Worlds, Shaping Selves: Religion, Museum, and Cultural Techniques in Contemporary Japan \u00bb, organis\u00e9e cette ann\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019Inalco dans le cadre du s\u00e9minaire d\u2019automne 2026 du Meiji jing\u00fb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lieu : auditorium du P\u00f4le des langues et civilisations (65, rue des Grands Moulins, 75013, Paris)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Date : vendredi 23 octobre 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heures : 10h00 – 12h00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R\u00e9sum\u00e9 de la conf\u00e9rence :<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I first came to Japan in 1993, I associated Buddhism primarily with meditation and Shint\u014d with the deities Izanagi and Izanami. At the Star Festival of the Buddhist-oriented New Religion Agonsh\u016b, in the mountains above Kyoto, its members burned thirty million wooden prayer sticks. There I became aware of the importance of practices and material forms for the social reality of religion. This observation provides the starting point for my lecture.
Using Agonsh\u016b as an example, I will show how rituals for the ancestors and practices of self-cultivation enable people to deal with personal problems and with their social environment. The focus then turns to World Mate, a New Religion more strongly oriented toward Shint\u014d and likewise offering its members techniques of problem-solving and self-cultivation. To study World Mate, it is first necessary to sort through the numerous attributions associated with Shint\u014d. I will therefore briefly discuss the writings of the so-called \u201cspiritual intellectuals,\u201d who selected historical interpretations, recombined them, and attributed them to Shint\u014d. The analysis then shifts from discursive constructions of religious tradition back to the ways in which religious life takes shape in everyday practice. An excursus to a Zen temple in Nagano will show how strongly religious practice is shaped by the communal, cultural, and charitable forms of temple life.
From here, the lecture turns to Japan\u2019s museum landscape, which has changed profoundly over the past twenty years. Spectacular architecture and exhibitions connect art with sensory experience and diverse social practices. Beginning with museums founded by New Religions, I will examine how they confer meaning on objects, give cultural ideas social validity, and offer visitors possibilities for participation and self-assurance. In this context, I propose that museums can be regarded as formations analogous to religion.
The lecture thus traces a path of inquiry from religious formations to formations analogous to religion. At its center is the question of how cultural institutions provide techniques through which people shape their relationship to themselves and to others. It also asks how ideas acquire individual and social validity through practices, material forms, and shared experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contact : edouard.lherisson@inalco.fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Au plaisir de vous y retrouver nombreuses et nombreux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bien amicalement,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edouard L’Herisson J\u2019ai le plaisir de vous faire part de la conf\u00e9rence d’Inken Prohl (professeure \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Heidelberg), intitul\u00e9e \u00ab Making Worlds, Shaping Selves: Religion, Museum, and Cultural Techniques in Contemporary Japan \u00bb, organis\u00e9e cette ann\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019Inalco dans le cadre du… Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
Institut fran\u00e7ais de recherche sur l\u2019Asie de l\u2019Est (IFRAE\/UMR 8043)
Secr\u00e9taire de r\u00e9daction de Cipango, Cahiers d\u2019\u00e9tudes japonaises<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"