When Healing Fails: Cognitive dissonance and resilience factors in failed religious healing. A comparative study of three local Christianities

拟议的研究项目解决了基督教信徒如何处理缺乏宗教愈合和奇迹的问题。一方面，这个问题的出发点是观察到，愈合正在经历一个显着的繁荣，不仅在深奥的市场，而且在基督教运动和教会的背景下，从五旬节-魅力自由教会天主教。另一方面，关于治疗和宗教的各种研究，虽然在探索宗教交流的力量，特别是宗教团体的复原力方面具有很大的启发性，但迄今为止，对非治疗的关注还很少。本研究以Leon Festinger的认知失调理论为出发点。认知失调最初描述的是一种状态，在这种状态中，行为者一方面感知到他们的欲望，希望和理想之间的不平衡，另一方面体验到现实。（宗教）期望的缺失会造成认知失调，导致行为和沟通中的某些反应，使情况变得合理。宗教行为者的经验，不从他们的身体或精神上的痛苦解放的影响力更高的权力构成了宗教行为者的现实，迄今为止，很少得到关注的研究。虽然认知失调描述了一个起点，为拟议的研究（一个困境），我们会问，与沟通手段，这一感知的问题是反击，以及这些手段是否导致永久解散的失调。因此，一个核心问题是：宗教团体能否对经历过的突发事件永久免疫？因此，认知失调的理论扩展到包括社会学弹性研究的最新发现，以便更具体地询问给定的交际资源。因此，计划中的研究不仅应该在这一迫切需要的发展中先行，而且首先应该通过重建宗教表演和叙事来审视交流和行为的具体方式，以探索和讨论宗教研究方法对复原力的可能性。就研究策略和方法而言，该项目旨在比较当地三个基督教教派。其目的是发展一个整体类型的沟通因素的弹性。因此，该项目的中心目标之一是将比较研究作为宗教研究的核心能力。

The proposed research project addresses the question of how Christian believers deal with the lack of religious healing and miracles. On the one hand, the starting point of the question is the observation that healing is experiencing a significant boom not only in the esoteric market, but also in the context of Christian movements and churches from Pentecostal-charismatic free churches to Catholicism. On the other hand, the focus of various research on healing and religion has so far been little on the aspect of non-healing, although the results were extremely instructive in exploring the power of religious communication in general and resilience of religious communities in particular.The research project uses the theory of cognitive dissonance according to Leon Festinger as a starting point. Cognitive dissonances initially describe, quite generally, a state in which actors perceive an imbalance between their desires, hopes and ideals on the one hand, and experienced reality on the other. The absence of (religious) expectation creates cognitive dissonance that causes certain reactions in behavior and communication to make the situation plausible. Experiences of religious actors not to be liberated from their physical or mental suffering by the influence of higher powers constitute a reality of religious actors, which hitherto received little attention in research. While cognitive dissonances describe a starting point for the proposed research (a dilemma), we will ask with which communicative means this perceived problem is countered and whether these means lead to a permanent dissolution of the dissonance. A central question is therefore: Can religious communities permanently immunize against experienced contingencies? The theory of cognitive dissonance is therefore expanded to include more recent findings in sociological resilience research in order to more specifically ask about the given communicative resources. The planned research should thus not only pioneer in the development of this desideratum, but above all by the reconstruction of religious performances and narrations to look at the concrete ways of communicating and behaving, in order to explore and discuss the possibilities of a religious studies approach to resilience. In terms of research strategy and methodology, the project aims to compare three local Christian denominations. The aim is to develop an overall typology on the communicative factors of resilience. One of the central aims of the project is therefore to put comparative research as a core competency of religious studies at the center of attention.