Collaborative Research: The Role of Religion in Public Life

合作研究：宗教在公共生活中的作用

• 批准号: 1437090
• 负责人: Pervin Gokariksel
• 金额: $ 18.57万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1437090&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Role; Religion; Public

Religion is increasingly playing an important role in politics and public life worldwide. Many societies today have to adjust to the growing relevance of religion in global affairs, national political debates, and the everyday public spaces of cities within which religious plurality exists. Despite the increasing influence of religious voices globally, there remains a critical gap in knowledge regarding how attitudes towards the changing role of religion may vary, who drives these changes, and what implications they may have for pluralism in diverse societies. This research project will help to fill this crucial gap by examining attitudes and practices concerning the shifting role of religion in public life. How can different moral systems and lifestyles be accommodated within a pluralistic public? What the renewed role of religion in public life means for secularism and pluralism is especially crucial for the Muslim world, where the role of Islam in public life is continuously evolving. In many Muslim societies, there is a notable trend away from the establishment of an Islamic state towards intensifying Islamic values and practices in public life. This project will assess how the renewed role of Islam in society formulates the problem of pluralism in Muslim democracies. The results will have implications beyond the Islamic world as well. The project will contribute basic understanding with respect to the geographies of religion, pluralism, and public life and offer new information and insights for discussions regarding the changing nature of secularism and the political role of religion worldwide.This project will provide insight into the public role of religion and secularism worldwide through an empirical investigation of the varying practices and attitudes concerning the public role of Islam in Turkey. The investigators will assess how attitudes regarding the reconfiguration of Islam and secularism vary across Turkish society, and they will evaluate how the devout Sunni Muslim sector, which constitutes about half of the Turkish population, is participating in this reconfiguration. They will conduct a nationwide survey to identify and assess the spectrum of attitudes towards and practices of the shifting dynamics of Islam and secularism in public life. The investigators will conduct in-depth qualitative research using focus groups and interviews with moderately to highly devout individuals in two representative Turkish cities to obtain new insights into the values and everyday practices of the politically and culturally influential devout sector of society. This project thereby will provide assessments of Turkish society's internal variability and what this variability means for the changing role of Islam in public life in Turkey and other Muslim nations. Because Turkey is a key U.S. ally and an influential political and economic player in the Middle East and Central Asia, this project will contribute beneficial knowledge as the U.S. and other nations seek to understand and more effectively interact with Muslim nations that are envisioning and enacting a pluralistic public sphere within which both religious and secular values and lifestyles have a place

宗教在世界范围内的政治和公共生活中发挥着越来越重要的作用。今天，许多社会必须适应宗教在全球事务、国家政治辩论以及存在宗教多元化的城市的日常公共空间中日益增长的相关性。尽管宗教声音在全球的影响越来越大，但在对宗教作用变化的态度可能如何变化、是谁推动这些变化以及它们可能对不同社会中的多元化产生什么影响等方面，人们的认识仍然存在严重差距。这一研究项目将通过审查有关宗教在公共生活中角色转变的态度和做法，帮助填补这一关键空白。如何在一个多元化的公众中容纳不同的道德体系和生活方式？宗教在公共生活中的新作用对世俗主义和多元化意味着什么，这对穆斯林世界尤其重要，因为在穆斯林世界，伊斯兰教在公共生活中的作用正在不断演变。在许多穆斯林社会中，有一种明显的趋势，即不再建立一个伊斯兰国家，而是在公共生活中强化伊斯兰价值观和做法。该项目将评估伊斯兰教在社会中的新角色如何形成穆斯林民主国家的多元化问题。这一结果也将对伊斯兰世界以外的地区产生影响。该项目将有助于对宗教、多元化和公共生活的地理位置的基本了解，并为关于世俗主义不断变化的性质和世界范围内宗教的政治角色的讨论提供新的信息和见解。该项目将通过对土耳其关于伊斯兰教公共角色的不同做法和态度的实证调查，深入了解世界各地宗教和世俗主义的公共角色。调查人员将评估整个土耳其社会对伊斯兰教和世俗主义重组的态度有何不同，他们还将评估占土耳其人口约一半的虔诚逊尼派穆斯林部门如何参与这一重组。他们将在全国范围内进行调查，以确定和评估对公共生活中不断变化的伊斯兰教和世俗主义的态度和做法。调查人员将利用焦点小组和采访两个具有代表性的土耳其城市中的中度到高度虔诚的个人进行深入的定性研究，以获得对社会中具有政治和文化影响力的虔诚部门的价值观和日常做法的新见解。因此，该项目将评估土耳其社会的内部变化，以及这种变化对伊斯兰教在土耳其和其他穆斯林国家公共生活中的作用的变化意味着什么。由于土耳其是美国的关键盟友，也是中东和中亚地区有影响力的政治和经济参与者，该项目将提供有益的知识，因为美国和其他国家正在寻求理解穆斯林国家，并更有效地与这些国家互动，这些国家正在设想和制定一个多元化的公共领域，宗教和世俗价值观和生活方式都在其中占有一席之地