Hisako Omori
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hisako Omori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hisako |
| FAMILY NAME | Omori |
| SIGNATURE | OMORI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Akita International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eating Japanese food in diaspora as identity building
In the life of a Japanese Canadian Christian church, food – especially Japanese cuisine – occupies a central place in parish life. Food not only nurtures members of the congregation physically but it serves as a focal point for collective identity formation. In the community where the majority of members are still survivors of Japanese Canadian internment during World War II, I argue that by planning, preparing, and serving food, women constantly…
Creating Families
This article explores the social construction of ‘family’ among the followers of Tenrikyō, one of the oldest ‘new religions’ in Japan, in relation to its members’ involvement in the Japanese foster family system. Currently, more than 10% of children who are in foster care nationwide are placed in the households of Tenrikyō followers. The majority of these Tenri foster family households also serve as Tenrikyō branch churches. Despite the explicitl…
Collective Experience of Political Violence as Identity
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Canadian government forcibly removed Canadians of Japanese ancestry from their homes in British Columbia. During and immediately following their internment, many Japanese Canadians converted to Christianity. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork among aging Japanese Canadians, this article contextualizes the wartime conversion to Christianity in the wider sociocultural milieu of the 1940s. Discussing co…
Private faith
It is not uncommon for Japanese Catholic women to conceal their religious identity from their family, relatives and colleagues. This paper examines the ‘private faith’ of such Japanese Catholic women in contemporary Tokyo. It situates their choice to hide their religious identity at the intersections of several discursive fields, and examines lay Catholic's negotiated identity from three angles: historical consciousness, gender and institutional …
On the Margin
Creating Families
This article explores the social construction of ‘family’ among the followers of Tenrikyō, one of the oldest ‘new religions’ in Japan, in relation to its members’ involvement in the Japanese foster family system. Currently, more than 10% of children who are in foster care nationwide are placed in the households of Tenrikyō followers. The majority of these Tenri foster family households also serve as Tenrikyō branch churches. Despite the explicitl…
Collective Experience of Political Violence as Identity
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Canadian government forcibly removed Canadians of Japanese ancestry from their homes in British Columbia. During and immediately following their internment, many Japanese Canadians converted to Christianity. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork among aging Japanese Canadians, this article contextualizes the wartime conversion to Christianity in the wider sociocultural milieu of the 1940s. Discussing co…
Private faith
It is not uncommon for Japanese Catholic women to conceal their religious identity from their family, relatives and colleagues. This paper examines the ‘private faith’ of such Japanese Catholic women in contemporary Tokyo. It situates their choice to hide their religious identity at the intersections of several discursive fields, and examines lay Catholic's negotiated identity from three angles: historical consciousness, gender and institutional …
On the Margin
Private faith
It is not uncommon for Japanese Catholic women to conceal their religious identity from their family, relatives and colleagues. This paper examines the ‘private faith’ of such Japanese Catholic women in contemporary Tokyo. It situates their choice to hide their religious identity at the intersections of several discursive fields, and examines lay Catholic's negotiated identity from three angles: historical consciousness, gender and institutional …
Creating Families
This article explores the social construction of ‘family’ among the followers of Tenrikyō, one of the oldest ‘new religions’ in Japan, in relation to its members’ involvement in the Japanese foster family system. Currently, more than 10% of children who are in foster care nationwide are placed in the households of Tenrikyō followers. The majority of these Tenri foster family households also serve as Tenrikyō branch churches. Despite the explicitl…
Collective Experience of Political Violence as Identity
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Canadian government forcibly removed Canadians of Japanese ancestry from their homes in British Columbia. During and immediately following their internment, many Japanese Canadians converted to Christianity. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork among aging Japanese Canadians, this article contextualizes the wartime conversion to Christianity in the wider sociocultural milieu of the 1940s. Discussing co…
Eating Japanese food in diaspora as identity building
In the life of a Japanese Canadian Christian church, food – especially Japanese cuisine – occupies a central place in parish life. Food not only nurtures members of the congregation physically but it serves as a focal point for collective identity formation. In the community where the majority of members are still survivors of Japanese Canadian internment during World War II, I argue that by planning, preparing, and serving food, women constantly…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works)