Challenges and Opportunities of Transforming Sacred Spaces: Developing a Liturgical Criteriology on the Basis of Case Studies in the Region of Aachen and its Environment

礼拜仪式分项目旨在分析典型研究区域“亚琛”（莱茵兰新教教会的罗马天主教教区和亚琛、于利希、格拉德巴赫-诺伊什和克雷费尔德-维尔森的教会区以及一些比较对象）中转型变体频谱中空间与行为者之间的紧张关系。其目的一方面是在当今社会和教会危机现象的背景下发展一种新的“神圣性”概念，另一方面是为进一步利用神圣空间制定决策辅助手段。该项目基于这样一种假设，即由于宗教的社会学变化，基督教的神圣空间正在失去其作为礼拜聚会空间的主要功能，但作为公共空间是不可或缺的。尽管它们作为异托邦一直有着过多的意义，但它们可以成为世纪多元社会的交流、融合和社会化的场所。除了监测和评估改革进程外，其目的是分析和反思最近的危机现象对空间的感知、使用和管理的影响，也是在教区和地区教会牧灵单位重组的背景下。与此相反，将确定空间美学和仪式分析的空间潜力。根据这些分析（其中一些分析已在项目第一阶段进行），将制定行动备选方案和标准，并将在示范性转型进程中加以检验。新的文化间、教派间或宗教间背景所产生的互动在此具有相关性。这些发现被捆绑在专着中，其中混合神圣空间的轮廓是从跨学科的礼仪研究的角度提出的。

The liturgical sub-project aims to analyse the field of tension between space and actors in the spectrum of transformation variants in the exemplary study area "Aachen" (Roman Catholic diocese and the church districts of Aachen, Jülich, Gladbach-Neuß and Krefeld-Viersen of the Protestant Church in the Rhineland as well as some comparative objects). The aim is on the one hand to develop a new concept of "sacrality" against the background of today's crisis phenomena in society and church, and on the other hand to formulate decision-making aids for the further use of sacred spaces. The project is based on the hypothesis that, as a result of the sociological changes in religion, Christian sacred spaces are losing their primary function as spaces for liturgical congregations, but are nevertheless indispensable as public spaces. Insofar as they have always had an excess of meaning as heterotopias, they can become places of communication, integration and socialisation for a plural society in the 21st century. In addition to the monitoring and evaluation of transformation processes, the aim is to analyse and reflect on the effects of recent crisis phenomena on the perception, use and management of space, also in the context of the restructuring of pastoral care units in dioceses and regional churches. In contrast, spatial potentials that are to be elicited spatially aesthetically and ritual-analytically will be determined. From the analyses, some of which were already carried out in the first phase of the project, options for action and criteria will be developed, which will be tested in exemplary transformation processes. The interactions resulting from new intercultural or interconfessional or interreligious contexts are relevant here. The findings are bundled in monographs in which the contours of a hybrid sacred space are presented from the perspective of interdisciplinary liturgical studies.