Presentation

In the year of the 100th anniversary of Japanese Immigration to Brazil, the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC/SP), through its Graduate Program of Religious Studies in partnership with the Mokichi Okada Foundation (Fundação Mokiti Okada) – MOA, and with the support of the Brazilian Association of Japanese Studies (Associação Brasileira de Estudos Japoneses – ABEJ), proposes the International Congress: Japanese Spiritual Heritage in Brazil – Modalities of Religious Transplantation and Cultural Adaptation since 1908.

The purpose of the congress is to help set up a system of interchange among Brazilian and foreign researchers from the various Human Sciences areas (Anthropology, Sociology, History, Religious Studies, among others) focused on Japanese religions. Its goal is also to consolidate in form of specialized publications, the knowledge that will be produced and presented at the event.

Lecturers from Japan, the United States, Australia, Germany and Great Britain will participate in the Conference, which is coordinated by Prof. Frank Usarski and Prof. Neide Nagae. The conference will be a subsequent event to the publication of a special edition of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies on Japanese Religions in Brazil to which the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya) invited the conference organizer as a guest editor.

Staff

Organization:	Graduate Program of Religious Studies – PUC/SP
	Mokichi Okada Foundation MOA – Messiânica College Project
	Brazilian Association of Japanese Studies (BAJS)
	CERAL – Center of Study on Alternative Religions in Brazil (Centro de Estudos de Religiões Alternativas no Brasil) – PUC/SP
General Coordination:	Prof. Dr. Frank Usarski – PUC/SP
	Profa. Dra. Neide Hissae Nagae - UNESP/FMO
Organizing Committee:	Prof. Dr. Alexandre Ratsuo Uehara – ABEJ
	Prof. Ms. Andrea Gomes Santiago Tomita – FMO
	Prof. Carlos Sendas – PUC/FMO
	Prof. Ms. Carlos Gáspari – FMO
	Prof. Ms. Ediléia Mota Diniz – FMO
	Prof. Geórgia Raffo – FMO
	Prof. Georgiana Neves – FMO
	Helen Psaros – FMO
	Prof. Dr. Rafael Shoji – PUC
Scientific Committee:	Prof. Dr. Bettina Schmidt, Universidade de Bangor, GB
	Prof. Dr. Denise Giminez Ramos, PUC-SP, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Fernando Londoño Torres, PUC-SP, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Geraldo Paiva, USP, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. José J. Queiroz, PUC-SP, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Jung Mo Sung, UMESP, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Koichi Mori, USP, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Maria Inês Aubert, FMO, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Martin Baumann, Universidade de Luzern, Switzerland
	Prof. Dr. Roberto Yutaka Sagawa, UNESP-Assis, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Silas Guerriero, PUC-SP, Brazil
	Prof. Dr. Steven Engler, Mount Royal College, Canada
Secretary:	Prof. Ms. Ediléia Mota Diniz – FMO
	André A. Farias, PUC-SP