Research Group1

Reexamination of Monotheism and Dialogue of Civilizations

2007
No.1	Yasuyuki Matsunaga	The Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Republic, and U.S.-Iran Relations: The Roots of the Problem
No.2	Katsuhiro Kohara	Barriers to the coexistence between civilizations and religions: Creation and echatology of the "Corpus Christianum"
	Koichi Mori	Millenialism and the Mission of America
No.3	Masanori Naito	Obstacles to Reconciliation with Muslims in Western Europe
	Hassan Ko Nakata	Obstacles to Coexistence – The Case of Islam

2006
No.1	O. Bakar	「Interfaith Dialogue from Perspective of History of Islamic Civiliization」
No.2	Takehito Miyake	Secularism and Modernization in Christianity, From the Viewpoint of Religious Sociology
	M. Shiegel	Secularism and Modernization in Christianity: The Catholic Perspective
No.3	Tokuji Kawai	Spinoza: An Isomer in the History of European Thought — His Thought on God, Ethics, and Politics
	Shozo Iijima	Machiavelli, Spinoza and Leo Strauss — Philosophy and Religion
No.4	Toshifuji Goto	Monotheism’ from the Viewpoint of the Ancient Indo-Iranian Religion
	Hiroshi Marui	Ascertainment of the Validity of Religious Tradition(s) in Indian Philosophy: Apologetics and Tolerance
No.5	Masato Iizuka	Contemporary Islam
	Ko Nakata

2005
No.1	Isaiah Teshima	The Turning Point in Rabbinic Judaism: The Destruction of the Temple and its Effects on the Political Theologies of the Sages
	Hiroshi Ichikawa	The Hierarchy of Authority and the Interpretation of Scripture in Modern Judaism in Relation to the Modern State and Democracy
No.2	Takashi Kato	A Typology of the Christian World From the Viewpoint of the Comparative Study of Civilizations
	Ritsu Ishikawa	The Possibility of Canonical Interpretation: the Canon as a Jar of Clay
No.3	Yoji Takeoka	The Sudan's Contemporary Conflict:
	I.Mohamed
No.4	Kazuko Shiojiri	"Jihad" in the Interpretation of the Qu'ran
	Ko Nakata	Jihad and "Islamic World"
No.5	Yasushi Kosugi	Islamic Democracy: Its Ideals, Experience, and Prospects
	Jun Furuya	The Changing Interface between Politics and Religion in the American Founding Idea
	Kenji Kanno	The French Republic and the Jews: A Touchstone of the "Laicite"

2004
No.1	B.Zikmund	Issues Facing Monotheistic Religions in the United States
	Ko Nakata	Coexistence with non-Muslims in Islamic Thought
No.2	Isaiah Teshima	Criticism of A. Toynbee in Jewish Studies: On the Inclusiveness and Exclusiveness of Civilizations
	Etsuko Katsumata	Dialogue with Others in Rabbinical Judaism
No.3	Shinichi Nakazawa	(Open for the public) Monotheism and Polytheism: Towards A New Dialogue of Civilization
No.4	Atsushi Okuda	People and Human Rights in Islamic Law
	Ken Miichi	Tolerance and Exclusivity in Islamism in Indonesia
No.5	Takashi Shiraishi	U.S. Policies against Southeast Asia – Focusing on the War against Terrorism
	Maki Tahara	A View on U.S. Policies against the Middle East – Between Adventurism and Thought Stopping
No.6	Solomon Schimmel	Developing an Internet – Based Trialogue on Peace and Reconciliation in Judaic, Christian and Islamic Thought

2003
No.1	Akio Tsukimoto	The Background of Ancient Israel and Monotheism
No.2	Takashi Kato	Christianity and the Formation of Monotheism
No.3	Shigeru Kamata	Islam and the Development of Monotheism