Doctoral Dissertation Research: State Transformations and Family Norms

博士论文研究：国家转型与家庭规范

• 批准号: 1729101
• 负责人: Jennifer Cole
• 金额: $ 1.92万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1729101&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; State; Transformations

The research supported by this award will investigate religious change in a context of increasing secularism. Much of recent social science research on religious change has focused on societies where increases in religiosity have produced political division and activism, particularly around social policies seen as inconsistent with belief. Less attention has been paid to societies in which religiosity is decreasing as religious citizens support secular social policies that are inconsistent with religious doctrine. Given the impact of religious politics in the contemporary world, it is important to understand both of these trends.To address this gap in knowledge, University of Chicago anthropology doctoral student Kelsey Robbins, under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Cole, will investigate a situation in which believers advocate for policies and practices that conflict with the social teachings of their religion. The research will be carried out in the Republic of Ireland. Proposed reforms of Ireland's social legislation, and the debates, activism, and practices that surround them, offer an ideal context for examining these processes of religious change. The researcher will gather data using a variety of anthropological methods, including: participant observation, semi-structured interviews, the collection of life history narratives, and analysis of textual discourse and media. By exploring how Irish citizens make sense of the tensions between their politics, their policy preferences, and the mainstream social teachings of their religion, this project will advance social scientific theory of the relationship between state secularization, religious dissent, and social regulation.

该奖项支持的研究将在日益世俗化的背景下调查宗教变化。最近关于宗教变化的社会科学研究大多集中在宗教信仰增加导致政治分裂和激进主义的社会，尤其是在被视为与信仰不一致的社会政策方面。由于宗教公民支持与宗教教义不一致的世俗社会政策，宗教信仰正在下降的社会受到的关注较少。鉴于宗教政治在当代世界的影响，理解这两种趋势是很重要的。为了解决这一知识差距，芝加哥大学人类学博士生凯尔西·罗宾斯将在詹妮弗·科尔博士的指导下，调查一种情况，即信徒倡导与其宗教的社会教义相冲突的政策和做法。这项研究将在爱尔兰共和国进行。爱尔兰社会立法的拟议改革，以及围绕这些改革的辩论、激进主义和实践，为审视这些宗教变革的过程提供了一个理想的背景。研究人员将使用各种人类学方法收集数据，包括：参与者观察，半结构化访谈，收集生活史叙事，以及文本话语和媒体分析。通过探索爱尔兰公民如何理解他们的政治、他们的政策偏好和他们宗教的主流社会教义之间的紧张关系，这个项目将推进关于国家世俗化、宗教异议和社会监管之间关系的社会科学理论。