Doctoral Dissertation Research: Resilience, Religion, and Political Change

博士论文研究：韧性、宗教和政治变革

• 批准号: 2116593
• 负责人: Robert Preucel
• 金额: $ 2.21万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116593&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Resilience; Religion

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The separation of religious institutions from governmental affairs is a common principle of democratic governments. In settings where religious affiliations are associated with other aspects of heritage and individuals’ identities, the principles of secularism may be implemented in varying ways. This doctoral dissertation research investigates reciprocal relationships between secularism and political change through the theoretical lens of resilience, asking whether and how devout individuals incorporate new concepts and identities to accommodate political shifts away from secularism. In addition to training a doctoral student, the project plans to disseminate findings widely to academic and non-academic audiences. Specifically, this project tests the hypotheses that democratic political transformations result in increasing proximity between religion and secularism, and that individuals leverage this proximity as a means of resilience to political changes targeting identity. Over twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, the investigators use a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, digital ethnography, and diary methods to test these hypotheses. Research questions include (1) how religious individuals understand and interpret secularism as a way of responding to political change; and (2) how individuals use traditional religious principles in conjunction with novel elements in response to political change. The research contributes a novel synthesis of resilience theory and religion to investigate the broad means by which humans adjust to changing political environments.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。宗教机构与政府事务分离是民主政府的共同原则。在宗教归属与遗产和个人身份的其他方面相关联的情况下，世俗主义原则可以以不同的方式实施。这篇博士论文研究通过弹性的理论透镜调查世俗主义和政治变革之间的相互关系，询问虔诚的个人是否以及如何融入新的概念和身份，以适应远离世俗主义的政治转变。除了培训一名博士生外，该项目还计划向学术界和非学术界人士广泛传播研究结果。具体而言，该项目测试的假设，民主政治变革的结果，在宗教和世俗主义之间的日益接近，以及个人利用这种接近作为一种手段的韧性，以政治变革为目标的身份。在为期12个月的民族志实地考察中，研究人员结合了参与式观察、半结构化访谈、数字民族志和日记方法来检验这些假设。研究问题包括：（1）宗教人士如何理解和解释世俗主义作为一种应对政治变革的方式;（2）个人如何使用传统的宗教原则与新的元素，以应对政治变革。该研究对复原力理论和宗教进行了新颖的综合，以调查人类适应不断变化的政治环境的广泛手段。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。