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Development of research centers for theology and humanities in the Tohoku region

Annual Plan

FY2016

the goal
  • Kick-off Symposium
  • Improvement and expansion of the research system environment
  • Academic research on 19th-century stained glass
  • Enriching the role of music in university chapel services
  • Preparations for opening university chapel services to the public
  • Establishing a system for publicizing and disseminating research results.
Implementation plan
  • We invited Jim Cheshire (Associate Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK) to hold a symposium on "19th-Century British Stained Glass and the Medieval Revival."
  • Procurement of information equipment (PCs, scanners, copiers, etc.) and research materials, and construction of a system for information disclosure.
  • A scholarly study of 19th-century stained glass was conducted, primarily in Lincoln, Ely, and London.
  • We are preparing to enhance the music for Wednesday evening university chapel services and open them to the public.
  • We have launched a website for this project and will also publish a monthly newsletter, "Branding Newsletter (tentative title)," to prepare for the timely publication of research results and collected materials.
  • Purchase of books necessary for research infrastructure development

FY2017

the goal
  • Investigation and restoration of stained glass in the university chapel.
  • Continuing research on 19th-century stained glass.
  • Enriching the role of music in university chapel services
  • Opening university chapel services to the public
  • Public relations and dissemination of research results
Implementation plan
  • With the cooperation of stained glass experts, the stained glass will be investigated and restored. The work will be open to the public.
  • A field survey to position our university's stained glass within the collection of stained glass works by the Heaton Butler & Bayne workshop.
  • We will be holding a symposium titled "John La Farge: From Stained Glass Revival to Japonism," featuring Associate Professor Katie Kresser (Seattle University, USA), Associate Professor Phylis Floyd (Michigan State University), Akiko Muragata (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University, former President of the Fenollosa Society), and Yoshiko Gomi (Curator, Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art).
  • We have invited Professor Peter Lampe (Faculty of Theology, Heidelberg University, Germany) and Professor Manabu Tsuji (Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima Graduate Schools) to give a lecture entitled "I am not ashamed of the Gospel - Understanding the Gospel in the New Testament (tentative title)."
  • Information regarding the opening of Wednesday evening university worship services (Wednesday services) to the public (15 times in the first semester, 15 times in the second semester), and the morning service.
  • We will publish the results of the previous year's symposium and also broadcast them in collaboration with Sendai Community Radio.
  • We will continue purchasing books necessary for improving our research infrastructure (e.g., Sources Chrétiennes, Corpus Christianorum series graeca).

FY2018

the goal
  • Publication of a research report on the stained glass in the university chapel.
  • Research on 19th-century stained glass
  • Enriching the role of music in university chapel services
  • Opening university chapel services to the public
  • Public relations and dissemination of research results
Implementation plan
  • We have published a research report on the stained glass windows of our university chapel, the Rahäuser Memorial Tohoku Gakuin Chapel, as a book for the general public.
  • Continuation of John La Farge research
  • International symposium on the emergence of patriotism in 19th-century Europe and America accompanying the medieval revival (co-sponsored with the Pacific Rim Patristic Society, APECSS); research on "indigenous and transcendental"
  • We held a symposium on Christian materiality, inviting Professor Emeritus Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Researcher Oleg Tarasov (Moscow Academy of Sciences, Russia), and conducted research on "Indigenous and Transcendental" activities.
  • An international symposium will be held on the Medieval Revival in 19th-century Britain (Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Arts and Crafts Movement, Japonism).
  • Continuing the investigation into the architecture of J.H. Morgan, the architect of our university chapel, also known as the Rahäuser Memorial Tohoku Gakuin Chapel.
  • We invited Professor Yoshiko Mizunuma (Kanto Gakuin University) to hold a symposium on J.H. Morgan, the architect of the Rahäuser Memorial Tohoku Gakuin Chapel.
  • Continuing the investigation into the important cultural property, the former missionary residence of Tohoku Gakuin (DeForest Hall).
  • We invited Lecturer Waldemar Affelt (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) to Tohoku Gakuin University as a visiting researcher. We held a symposium on the important cultural property, the former missionary residence of Tohoku Gakuin (DeForest House), and conducted research on "indigenousness and transcendence."
  • Continuing research on "Indigenous and Transcendent" (the formation and expansion of European Christianity)
  • Continuing research on "Indigenous and Transcendental" (Scottish Presbyterian Evangelicalism)
  • I began research into the Christianity of the three founders of the school (Masayoshi Oshikawa, W.E. Hoy, and D.B. Schneider) and their relationship with the Tohoku region. I also compared the Harvard Divinity School connections (Morse, Fenollosa, Bigelow, La Farge) with the Amherst Theological Seminary connections (Clark, Jo Niijima, Kanzo Uchimura).
  • Enriching and opening up university worship services through music
  • We will publish the results of the previous year's symposium and also broadcast them in collaboration with Sendai Community Radio.
  • Continued purchase of books necessary for research infrastructure development.

FY2019

the goal
  • Publication of a research report on the architecture of the Rahäuser Memorial Tohoku Gakuin Chapel
  • Continuing research on 19th-century stained glass.
  • Enriching the role of music in university chapel services
  • Opening university chapel services to the public
  • Public relations and dissemination of research results
Implementation plan
  • Publication of a research report on the architecture of the Rahäuser Memorial Tohoku Gakuin Chapel
  • Continuation of John La Farge research
  • Continuing research on the Christian affirmation of materialism (the sanctification of materiality through incarnation)
  • Research and analysis focusing on medieval revival movements in modern and contemporary Europe.
  • Continuing research on J.H. Morgan
  • Continuing the investigation into the important cultural property, the former missionary residence of Tohoku Gakuin (DeForest Hall).
  • Continuing research on "Indigenous and Transcendent" (the formation and expansion of European Christianity)
  • Continuing research on "Indigenous and Transcendental" (Scottish Presbyterian Evangelicalism)
  • Continuing research on Christianity and the Tohoku region by the three founders of the school (Oshikawa Masayoshi, W.E. Hoy, and D.B. Schneider).
  • Enriching and opening up university worship services through music
  • We will publish the results of the previous year's symposium and also broadcast them in collaboration with Sendai Community Radio.
  • Continued purchase of books necessary for research infrastructure development.

FY2020

the goal
  • Enriching the role of music in university chapel services
  • Opening university chapel services to the public
  • This project summarizes five years of research on 19th-century stained glass (Medieval Revival: Theology, Material Culture, Indigenous and Transcendental), and aims to publish and disseminate its findings.
  • Develop a base for cultural resource development in Tohoku
Implementation plan
  • An international symposium was held to summarize the meaning of material culture and the Middle Ages, and to discuss the revival of the Middle Ages in the modern era (La Farge, affirmation of materialism).
  • An international symposium will be held on the Rahäuser Memorial Tohoku Gakuin Chapel and the Tohoku Gakuin Former Missionary Residence (DeForest Hall), a designated Important Cultural Property.
  • We will continue our research on "Indigenous and Transcendental" (the formation and expansion of European Christianity, Scottish Presbyterianism, and evangelism in the Tohoku region) and hold a symposium.
  • An international symposium on Christianity and indigenous culture by the three founders of the school (Masayoshi Oshikawa, W.E. Hoy, and D.B. Schneider) will be held.
  • We will compile the content of symposiums and other events held over the past five years, the status of public access to cultural properties, and other research findings, edit them for the public, and publish them as a book. We will also collaborate with Sendai Community Radio to broadcast the information.
  • Continued purchase of books necessary for research infrastructure development.
  • We will report the cultural value of our university buildings and other structures to the city of Sendai and discuss ways to collaborate on the development of cultural resources in the Tohoku region.