"Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" -Coordination

“多元世俗——超越西方，超越现代”协调

• 批准号: 285610736
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Christoph Kleine, since 1/2020
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Religionswissenschaftliches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Advanced Studies Centres in SSH
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/285610736?language=en
• 关键词: Multiple; Secularities; Beyond; West; Modernities

The Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies investigates forms and arrangements of differentiation between religious and other social spheres, practices, interpretive frameworks, institutions and discourses in different eras and regions. We refer to such arrangements, which are often contentious, with the heuristic term ¿secularities¿.Based on the hypothesis that the drawing up of boundaries between the religious and non-religious is not an exclusive sign either of modernity or of the ¿West¿, we explore corresponding emic taxonomies, forms of social differentiation and modes of demarcation. These are to be analyzed in their internal developments as well as in relation to modern ¿western¿ concepts of social order. In this way, we hope to explain current forms of secularity in different regions and the concomitant conflicts about the power of interpretation and claims to validity.The particular nature of this project is that it transcends modernization theory, as well as the evolutionary, ethnocentric and normative perspectives, which are often peculiar to debates on secularization and secularism, may they be affirmative or critical. We are therefore opening up an interdisciplinary, global research perspective, which otherwise appears distorted by the narrowness of current debates. We bring together the perspectives of religious studies and sociology, different area studies, as well as history and anthropology. The systematic inclusion of premodern cultures is another novel element. Lastly, we transcend the isolated issue of the transcultural applicability of the term ¿religion¿ by focusing on the processes of differentiation between ¿the religious¿ and ¿the secular¿ or related distinctions as such.In the first four-year-period of its work, the Humanities Centre will focus on different regions of the ¿Islamic world¿ as well as of Asia ¿ deliberately not starting with Europe or the US as the countries that might first enter one¿s mind if the secular, secularism and secularity are being dealt with.

人文学科高级研究中心调查宗教和其他社会领域，实践，解释框架，机构和不同时代和地区的话语之间的差异的形式和安排。我们用“世俗性”这个启发性的术语来指代这种经常引起争议的安排。基于这样一个假设，即宗教与非宗教之间的界限的划定并不是现代性或西方的唯一标志，我们探讨了相应的主位分类、社会分化的形式和划分模式。这些将在其内部发展以及与现代西方社会秩序概念的关系中进行分析。通过这种方式，我们希望解释当前不同地区的世俗化形式，以及随之而来的关于解释权和有效性主张的冲突。这个项目的特殊性在于，它超越了现代化理论，以及进化论，种族中心主义和规范的观点，这些观点通常是关于世俗化和世俗主义的争论所特有的，无论它们是肯定的还是批判的。因此，我们正在开辟一个跨学科的，全球性的研究视角，否则似乎被当前辩论的狭隘扭曲。我们汇集了宗教研究和社会学，不同领域的研究，以及历史和人类学的观点。系统地纳入前现代文化是另一个新颖的元素。最后，我们超越了“宗教”一词跨文化适用性的孤立问题，重点关注宗教与世俗或相关区别之间的区别过程。在其工作的头四年期间，人文中心将重点关注伊斯兰世界和亚洲的不同地区。故意不从欧洲或美国开始，如果世俗，世俗主义和世俗性正在处理，那么这些国家可能首先进入人们的脑海。