Moriyuki Abukuma's Academic Profile

31 March, 2000

Name

Moriyuki Abukuma -- Self-declared Name
Moriyuki Murakami -- Officially Registered Name

Home

380-4 Tasiro, Funehiki
Fukushima 963-4543
JAPAN
Tel. (81) 247-86-2500
Fax (81) 247-86-2319
Email:abukum-academy@fukushima.email.ne.jp
Homepage http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma

Current Position and Service

Founder and Lecturer of Abukuma Academy (from 2000)
Part-time Lecturer of Sociology, Iwaki Meisei University (from 2000)
Editor of Weberian Sociology of Religion Homepage (since 1996)

Education

M.A. in Religious Studies, Boston University, U.S.A., 1997.
M.S. in Agriculture, Mie University, JAPAN, 1986.

Publications (Electronic Texts and Theses)

Outline of Basic Concepts of Sociology. (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/outline/outline_basic_concept.html)

Weberian Sociology of Japanese Rulership and Religion. Master's Thesis at Boston University, 1997.

Max Weber's Texts (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/weber_texts.html)

Non-Church Christianity (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hw8m-mrkm/home_en.html)

A Weberian Methodology of Sociological Studies. (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/moriyukis/weberian/meth/index.htm)

A Weberian Sociology of Religious Experience. (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/moriyukis/intro/Religious_Experience.html)

Routinization of Charisma in Early Christianity. (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/moriyukis/christ/rout_chri.html)

The Japanese Ethos -- a Weberian Sociology of Japanese Character. Master's Thesis at Mie University, 1986. (Written in Japanese)

Weber and Abukuma

Moriyuki Abukuma encountered Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in 1983, when he was a junior student of agriculture. He was so moved that he decided to study Max Weber's sociology throughout his lifetime. Weber opened Abukuma's eyes to the historical development of the elimination of magic from the world and from the way of salvation. That is to say, any sacraments whether baptism, the Lord Supper, or even the ordination of priest have no use for salvation. This revelation convinced his belief in Non-Church Christianity which mission is to carry out the elimination of magic from the Christian way of salvation.

Abukuma Academy

A school for the study of academic truth, in the beginning, Max Weber's sociology. Moriyuki Abukuma opens Abukuma Academy in January 2000 and lectures Weber's sociology of religion.
http://www.abukuma-academy.jp/ (in Japanese)