Japan's Traditional Religion and Social Capital : A Case of Shintoism Shrine

ニホン　ノ　デントウ　シュウキョウ　ト　ソーシャル　キャピタル : ジンジャ　カツドウ　ヲ　ジレイ　ニ

カナヤ, ノブコ

Kanaya, Nobuko

シュウキョウ ト シャカイ コウケン ケンキュウカイ

神道

神社

ソーシャル・キャピタル

ネットワーク

traditional religion

Shinto

shrine

socail capital

network

trust

This article explores the understudied relationship between socail capital and religion in Japan, focusing on one of its traditional religions - Shintoism. Using an original survey of support members of a Shito shrine, it examines the relation between religious attitudes, which include faith and religious activity participation, and social capital generators: network, reciprocity and trust. The results indicate that both faith and frequency of religious activity participation are pasitively related to community interaction, neighborhood association attendance and pepoles's trust. It is also found that the frequency of particaipation in relogious activity is positiverly related to the number of network, though faith is note related to that.