Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Producing Believers, Contesting Islam: Conservative and Liberal Youths in Indonesia

博士论文改进补助金：培养信徒，对抗伊斯兰教：印度尼西亚的保守派和自由派青年

• 批准号: 0819284
• 负责人: Michael Gilsenan
• 金额: $ 0.85万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Producing

Graduate student Nur Amali Ibrahim, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Gilsenan, will carry out comparative research on youth socialization processes in conservative and liberal Islamic organizations in Indonesia. In many parts of the world, Muslims contest the idea that Islam should not function merely as a religion but should also provide the legal and political framework in society. These struggles can be observed clearly in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, where conservative youths call for the establishment of an Islamic state, while liberal youths reject this vision. This research asks: How do youth believers become attached to different religious orientations? Instead of conceptualizing socialization processes in each groups as separate, this study analyzes how young conservative and liberal Muslims influence one another's beliefs and actions in concrete, everyday contexts. The research will be conducted over 18 months in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital city and the site of intense conservative-liberal debates. The research will be conducted primarily at one mosque and one university, both of which are known for active youth participation in religious groups. The researcer will employ a range of ethnographic research methods, including participant observation, open-ended interviews, and structured surveys. This rsearch is important because by examining how Islam gets shaped by debates and socialization processes occurring in specific historical contexts, it will contribute to building a nuanced and dynamic social science theory of the processes that shape religion today. Given that youths are instrumental in social movements globally, the analysis of how they come to support a religiously-based movement provides greater insight on how sociopolitical struggles transpire. Funding this research also supports the education of a social scientist.

研究生努尔阿玛利易卜拉欣，博士迈克尔Gilsenan的监督下，将进行青年社会化过程的比较研究，在印度尼西亚的保守和自由的伊斯兰组织。在世界许多地方，穆斯林对伊斯兰教不应仅仅作为一种宗教发挥作用，还应在社会中提供法律的和政治框架的观点提出质疑。这些斗争在印度尼西亚这个世界上最大的穆斯林占多数的国家可以清楚地看到，在那里，保守派青年呼吁建立一个伊斯兰国家，而自由派青年则拒绝这一愿景。本研究的问题是：青年信徒如何依恋不同的宗教取向？而不是概念化的社会化过程中，每个群体作为单独的，这项研究分析了年轻的保守派和自由派穆斯林如何影响对方的信仰和行动，在具体的，日常的情况。这项研究将在印度尼西亚首都雅加达进行18个月，雅加达是保守派和自由派激烈辩论的地点。这项研究将主要在一个清真寺和一所大学进行，这两个地方都以青年积极参加宗教团体而闻名。研究人员将采用一系列民族志研究方法，包括参与者观察，开放式访谈和结构化调查。这项研究是重要的，因为通过研究伊斯兰教如何通过在特定历史背景下发生的辩论和社会化过程形成，它将有助于建立一个微妙的和动态的社会科学理论的过程，塑造今天的宗教。鉴于青年在全球社会运动中发挥着重要作用，分析他们如何支持基于宗教的运动，可以更深入地了解社会政治斗争是如何发生的。资助这项研究也支持社会科学家的教育。