Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Language Socialization, Education, and Social Transformation in a Context of Socioeconomic Inequality

博士论文研究改进资助：社会经济不平等背景下的语言社会化、教育和社会转型

• 批准号: 1322346
• 负责人: Webb Keane
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322346&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grant

This research will investigate the role of children's religious education in the spread of new norms of Islamic piety. The research is located in a formally secular state that is currently undergoing a popular religious revival. This project seeks to understand how reformist Islamic groups use informal neighborhood Quran schools to mold pious children. These schools are important venues for proselytizing politically and economically marginalized neighborhoods long stigmatized for a lack of proper piety. The researcher will examine how the piety taught in the schools affects everyday interactions among children, their families, and their neighbors, and contribute to the spread the Islamic Revival to new communities. This research uses methods in the study of language socialization to provide new insight on how moral subjects are formed in the context of everyday social interactions. The focus on the role of neighborhood schools in moral and religious proselytization will further our understanding of children as agents of social change.By examining children's neighborhood Quran schools, this research addresses key questions in the anthropology of morality and religion: 1) how do individuals take on responsibility as moral subjects within a community and 2) how do the norms of a moral community change? Conducting research not only in the classroom, but also in the surrounding community, this project will observe how the children both learn explicit moral discourses and are drawn into the moral practices of everyday life. This research thus goes beyond the standard frameworks contrasting religion and secularism, and Islam and the West, to give us greater insight into the internal dynamics of change among Muslims during a time of major religious transformations.

本研究将探讨儿童的宗教教育在伊斯兰教虔诚新规范的传播中的作用。 该研究位于一个正式的世俗国家，目前正在经历一场流行的宗教复兴。该项目旨在了解伊斯兰改革派团体如何利用非正式的社区古兰经学校来塑造虔诚的儿童。 这些学校是改变政治和经济边缘化社区的重要场所，这些社区长期以来因缺乏适当的虔诚而受到指责。研究人员将研究学校中教授的虔诚如何影响儿童，他们的家庭和邻居之间的日常互动，并有助于将伊斯兰复兴传播到新的社区。本研究运用语言社会化研究的方法，对道德主体在日常社会交往中的形成提供了新的视角。社区学校在道德和宗教教化中的作用将进一步加深我们对儿童作为社会变革推动者的理解。通过对儿童社区古兰经学校的考察，本研究解决了道德和宗教人类学中的关键问题：1）个人如何承担社区内道德主体的责任; 2）道德社区的规范如何变化？不仅在课堂上进行研究，而且在周围的社区，这个项目将观察孩子们如何学习明确的道德话语，并被吸引到日常生活的道德实践。因此，这项研究超越了对比宗教和世俗主义，伊斯兰教和西方的标准框架，让我们更深入地了解穆斯林在重大宗教变革时期的内部变化动态。