Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Looking Within and Between: Women and Religious Transformations in Mozambique

研究生Christy Schuetze在Sandra巴恩斯博士的指导下，将研究莫桑比克宗教参与的兴起与政治和经济生活之间的关系。五旬节-灵恩派教会在第三世界的大部分地区发展和传播。在莫桑比克，他们这样做的同时，非基督教精神媒介的兴起。 该项目将在这两种截然不同的背景下进行研究，并以最突出和参与人数最多的妇女为重点。这允许一个自然的实验来调查宗教信仰传播的原因和后果，以及不同宗教运动之间的关系。这项研究将包括对150个家庭的调查，以了解信奉不同宗教的群体之间的差异。随后将对这两个传统中的每一个传统中的20名妇女进行深入访谈。研究人员还将咨询附近一所大学的档案馆和专家。随着宗教与当前政治、经济和社会生活的相关性日益增强，探索宗教变革如何与它们所处的背景纠缠在一起变得越来越迫切。本研究将提供一个不同的角度，从这个角度来探讨全球经济和政治变革所塑造的动荡的社会背景。它将使人们深入了解妇女如何受到当前经济全球化各方面的不同影响。

Graduate student Christy Schuetze, supervised by Dr. Sandra Barnes, will undertake research on the relationship between the rise of religious participation and political and economic life in Mozambique. Pentecostal-Charismatic churches have grown and spread throughout much of the third world. In Mozambique, they have done so in parallel with the rise of non-Christian spirit-mediumship. This project will conduct research across these two contrasting contexts, unified by a focus on women who are the most prominent and numerous participants. This permits a natural experiment to investigate the causes and consequences of the spread of religiosity, and the relationship between different religious movements. The research will include a 150-household survey to understand differences between the groups who practice different religions. This will be followed by in-depth interviews with 20 women in each of the two traditions. The researcher also will consult archives and experts at a nearby university. As the relevance of religion to current political, economic, and social life grows, it is becoming more imperative to explore how religious transformations are entangled with the contexts in which they are found. This research will offer a different angle from which to approach turbulent social contexts shaped by global economic and political transformations. It will give insight into how women may be differentially affected by current aspects of economic globalization.