Doctoral Dissertation Research: Governance, Urban Planning and Religious Modernity

博士论文研究：治理、城市规划与宗教现代性

• 批准号: 1851532
• 负责人: Hussein Agrama
• 金额: $ 2.51万
• 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: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-03-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1851532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Governance; Urban

Religious revival movements have become a prominent part of the global political landscape in recent decades. Whereas many once assumed that modernization and urbanization would be accompanied by secularization, faith-based movements and their political effects have only become more relevant worldwide. Religious politics have not only transformed the political sphere; politicization has also changed religion and religious practices. This project, which trains an anthropology graduate student in methods of scientifically rigorous and empirical data collection and analysis, explores what impact the institutionalization of religion in government has on transforming the public sphere, urban space, and practices of piety. By examining the effects of governance on religious practices, urban planning, capitalism, tourism, and identity, the project advances our understanding of modernity and state-building in socio-religious contexts. The project also broadens the participation of groups historically underrepresented in science, contributes the education of underrepresented groups, and builds capacity and scientific infrastructure through international cooperation in these scientific research communities.The Fellow, under the supervision of Dr. Hussein Agrama of the University of Chicago, proposes to explore how shrine pilgrimage and its material relationship to shifting practices of governance, religious pilgrimage, and piety impact the organization of urban space, cultural beliefs about modernity, and conceptions of self and community. This project examines how institutionalization of religion has affected popular practices of religiosity, specifically a network of shrines in a range of urban and non-urban settings with varying levels of state political oversight. The research will be conducted at three sites (in major city, a secondary city that is known for its shrine, and a city that has been rebranded as a hub for religious tourism). Utilizing interviews, participant-observation, and archival, research will investigate how pilgrims, locals, urban planners, architects, and other stakeholders understand the transformation of these sites. This research will contribute to debates in political anthropology about governance, theories in the anthropology of religion about pilgrimage, mobility, and tourism, and analyses in urban anthropology about space and sectarian identity. Findings from this research will provide insight into how religious politics are lived on the ground and how the administrative and bureaucratic practices of governance in a modern state transform the role of religion in public life.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

近几十年来，宗教复兴运动已成为全球政治格局的重要组成部分。虽然许多人曾经认为现代化和城市化将伴随着世俗化，但基于信仰的运动及其政治影响在世界范围内变得更加重要。宗教政治不仅改变了政治领域;政治化也改变了宗教和宗教习俗。这个项目，培训人类学研究生在科学严谨和实证数据收集和分析的方法，探讨了什么样的影响，宗教在政府的制度化对改变公共领域，城市空间，和虔诚的做法。通过研究治理对宗教习俗，城市规划，资本主义，旅游业和身份的影响，该项目推进了我们对社会宗教背景下的现代性和国家建设的理解。该项目还扩大了历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与，促进了代表性不足群体的教育，并通过这些科学研究界的国际合作建立了能力和科学基础设施。该研究员在芝加哥大学的Hussein Agrama博士的监督下，提议探讨朝圣及其与不断变化的治理做法的物质关系，宗教朝圣和虔诚影响着城市空间的组织、关于现代性的文化信仰以及自我和社区的概念。该项目研究了宗教制度化如何影响宗教信仰的流行做法，特别是在一系列城市和非城市环境中的神殿网络，国家政治监督的程度各不相同。该研究将在三个地点进行（主要城市，一个以其神社而闻名的二级城市，以及一个被重新命名为宗教旅游中心的城市）。利用访谈，参与者观察和档案，研究将调查朝圣者，当地人，城市规划师，建筑师和其他利益相关者如何理解这些网站的转变。这项研究将有助于政治人类学关于治理的辩论，宗教人类学关于朝圣，流动和旅游的理论，以及城市人类学关于空间和宗派身份的分析。这项研究的结果将提供深入了解宗教政治是如何生活在地面上，以及如何在一个现代国家的管理和官僚的做法改变宗教在公共生活中的作用。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。