Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Circulation of Public Religious Speech and the Remaking of Community

博士论文研究：公共宗教言论的流通与社区的重塑

• 批准号: 1155233
• 负责人: Veena Das
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1155233&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Circulation; Public

Johns Hopkins University doctoral student Fouad Halbouni, with the guidance of Dr. Veena Das, will undertake research on the circulation of public religious speech, in the form of sermons, homilies and recorded lessons, from formal religious institutions to less formal public spaces of interaction. He is particularly interested in how such circulation takes place in the aftermath of political upheaval. For the purposes of this project, he will focus on religious ideas in an old popular quarter in Cairo which has a long history of religious plurality. While this plurality is often represented in the media as an oppositional relationship between two monolithic groups, Coptic Orthodox Christians and Muslims, the researcher wishes to investigate the possibility that the two communities are not as monolithic as they are portrayed and that there may be or may develop a plurality of positions regarding questions of the religious "other."The researcher will undertake 12 months of field research in al-Azbakiya, a popular Cairo neighborhood. He will employ multiple social science research methods, including: participant observation and recording at mosque and church sermons; participant observation at local Muslim and Christian teaching institutions; discourse analysis of commercially available sermon recordings; tracking of sermons and the ideas they contain as the sermons move out of the formal sphere to be dispersed and discussed in public venues; focus groups; and interviews with religious officials and lay people.This research is important because its findings will contribute to social scientific understanding of how ideas in general, and public religious speech in particular, may contribute to the making and remaking of political community. Significant public religious speech and political activity co-occur throughout the world. Understanding their relationship is critical for theorists and policy makers alike. Funding this research also contributes to the education of a graduate student.

约翰霍普金斯大学博士生福阿德Halbouni，与博士的指导下。维纳达斯，将进行研究的公共宗教言论的流通，在布道，布道和记录的经验教训的形式，从正式的宗教机构到不太正式的公共互动空间。他特别感兴趣的是，在政治动荡之后，这种流通是如何发生的。为了这一项目的目的，他将着重于开罗一个古老的流行区的宗教思想，该地区有着悠久的宗教多元化历史。虽然这种多元性在媒体上经常被描述为两个单一群体-科普特东正教基督徒和穆斯林-之间的对立关系，但研究者希望调查这两个群体并不像他们所描述的那样是单一的，在宗教"他者"问题上可能存在或可能发展出多元立场的可能性。"研究人员将在开罗一个受欢迎的社区al-Azbakiya进行为期12个月的实地研究。他将采用多种社会科学研究方法，包括：参与观察和记录在清真寺和教堂讲道;参与观察当地穆斯林和基督教教学机构;话语分析的商业布道录音;跟踪布道和他们所包含的思想，因为布道走出了正式领域，分散在公共场所讨论;焦点小组;以及对宗教官员和非宗教人士的采访。这项研究很重要，因为它的发现将有助于社会科学地理解一般的思想，特别是公开的宗教言论，如何有助于政治社区的建立和重建。重要的公共宗教演讲和政治活动在世界各地同时发生。理解它们之间的关系对理论家和政策制定者都至关重要。资助这项研究也有助于研究生的教育。