Configurations of Islam and Muslims in Germany on a local level

该项目的依据是，在德国，穆斯林和伊斯兰教的身份越来越多地被协商，并成为地方和城市一级的重要类别，从而在具体的地方和城市背景下以新的方式受到影响和塑造，即形成。在地方一级，伊斯兰教变得最为明显，成为地方政策和行政管理的问题，一部分人口被称为穆斯林，穆斯林和非穆斯林之间的关系在互动中形成。该项目正在解决一个研究空白，因为迄今为止，科学辩论往往要么集中在国家一级，如果涉及与伊斯兰教有关的陈述和政策，要么完全集中在个人身份建设过程。根据两个详细的案例研究，埃尔兰根和奥斯纳布吕克，并在四个密切相关的工作包（WP）的过程中，该项目将比较分析穆斯林和伊斯兰教的两个地方配置，在更广泛的德国背景下整合地方视角。首先，WP1审视了德国关于穆斯林和伊斯兰教的超地方话语和决定的中心时刻，构建了案例研究。与此同时，它询问穆斯林和伊斯兰教是否以及在多大程度上正在成为德国主要城市的市政政治和行政实践的对象。WP2分析了埃尔兰根和奥斯纳布吕克从1970年到今天的具体地方发展道路，并询问了穆斯林和伊斯兰教何时、何地以及以何种方式在地方一级变得可见或可见。WP3采取了更多的民族志的角度，并将审查目前的做法和穆斯林和伊斯兰教的日常配置的地方。它探讨了如何成为一个穆斯林主体（和重塑这种身份）的过程是连接到当地的情况下，例如当地组织的伊斯兰教或当地社区政治。在这里，有趣的是，在这两个案例研究中，新的伊斯兰神学研究所最近刚刚成立，因此，WP3也要求了解伊斯兰教在地方一级的学术制度化的条件和影响。WP4最后通过检查额外的#德国当地背景，进一步将案例研究置于背景中。通过应用这一全面的广泛视角，该项目有望为德国关于伊斯兰教的社会政治辩论提供新的见解，这也可能与市政政治的实践有关。该项目定位于一个动态的和多学科的讨论中，讨论宗教对城市，后世俗社会和社区身份政治的安排的（新）意义，迄今为止，这一直是一个以英语为主导的辩论。对于德国的科学背景，它因此丰富了社会和城市地理学领域，以及移民和宗教地理学领域和各自的邻近学科。

The project is based on the observation that the identities Muslim and Islam are increasingly negotiated and becoming significant categories at a local and municipal level in Germany, thus being affected and shaped, that is, configurated, in new ways within specific local and urban contexts. It is the local level, where Islam becomes most visible and an issue of local policies and administration, where a part of the population is addressed as muslim, where the relations between muslims and non-muslims are configurated in interactions. The project is addressing a research gap, as the scientific debate, so far, has tended to concentrate either on the national level, if dealing with Islam-related representations and policies, or exclusively on individual identity-building processes. On the basis of two detailed case-studies, Erlangen and Osnabrück, and in the course of four closely interlocked work-packages (WPs) the project is going to analyse comparatively two local configurations of Muslims and Islam, integrating the local perspective in a wider German context. At first, WP1 scrutinizes central moments of supra-local discourses and decisions on Muslims and Islam in Germany, framing the case studies. At the same time, it asks if and to what extend Muslims and Islam are becoming objects of municipal politics and administration practices in German major cities. WP2 analyzes specific local paths of development in Erlangen and Osnabrück from 1970 until today and asks, when, where and in what ways Muslims and Islam had become visible or had been made visible on a local level. WP3 takes a more ethnographic perspective, and will examine current practices and places of everyday configurations of Muslims and Islam. It explores how the processes of becoming a Muslim subject (and of reshaping such identities) are connected to local contexts, e.g. to a locally organized Islam or local communal politics. Here, it is of interest that new Islamic-theological Institutes were just recently established in both case-studies, so that WP3 is also asking for the conditions and effects of that academic institutionalization of Islam at a local level. WP4 finally further contextualizes the case-studies by examining additional# German local contexts. Through the application of this overall wide perspective the project promises new insights for the socio-political debate on Islam in Germany that could also be relevant for the practice of municipal politics. The project locates itself within a dynamic and multi-disciplinary discussion on the (new) meanings of religion for the arrangement of urban, post-secular societies and communal politics of identity that has been a predominantly English-speaking debate so far. For the German scientific context, it thus enriches the fields of Social and Urban Geography as well as the fields of a Geography of Migration and Religion and respective neighbouring disciplines.