Conclusions: Future Issues in Historical Geography of Religious Culture
Masayasu ODA
At the end of the Symposium on Historical Geography of Religious Culture, the author/organizer proposes the need for Japanese geographers to pursue the issues as follows:
firstly to identify the types of difference by region, religion and time;
secondly to ask how and why religions have been distributed in cooperation with the historians of religions;
thirdly to make clear how Japanese religions interpret the environmental modification;
and fourth to grasp religious phenomena in light of social, economic and political situations in the region.