Religious diversity and tradition in Burkina Faso: historical and contemporary challenges

该项目的出发点是传统和传统宗教概念的模糊性，在布基纳法索的地方语言中，这两个概念经常被用同一个词来指代。基于这一观察，它提出了一种务实和认识论的方法，通过艺术家、知识分子、年轻人和地方领导人的实践和话语来观察传统与地方宗教之间的关系，而不是专注于预先定义的概念单位。关于布基纳法索社会传统宗教和/或传统的辩论远没有被归入过去，仍然是及时的。该项目侧重于布基纳法索宗教多样性中这些“传统”的历史和当代挑战。因此，主要的问题是这些概念所创造的关系，以及它们在布基纳法索社会中所缓和、重新安排或破坏的关系。传统宗教和传统之间的变化、界限和相似性如何影响行为者的实践和话语？他们在多大程度上重新适应了“传统”？在布基纳法索目前的情况下，这有什么意义？布基纳法索具有不同的宗教和文化传统，似乎是一个很好的调查领域，以反映多样性，相遇和互动，虽然对布基纳法索传统宗教目前发展的研究很少。此外，今天，人们对传统宗教寄予很高的期望，希望它们能够解决暴力的伊斯兰激进主义问题;然而，人们并不十分清楚它们的贡献是什么。其目的是考察特定社会、政治和历史进程中行为者对传统和传统宗教的不同观点。在布基纳法索历史上恐怖主义抬头、政治不确定性和不同人口群体之间令人担忧的紧张关系的时刻，这些人如何重新投资传统宗教？五个工作包（WP）将使该项目得以实施：分析政治和知识精英的话语、表演艺术、地方统治者的话语、命名等“普通”做法，以及最后分析传统的重新表达及其在农村地区的家族化。它得到了一个法国团队（IRD-Imaf）和一个德国团队（美因茨大学，Ifeas）的支持，他们共同监督布基纳法索的硕士生，并与布基纳法索艺术家合作，无论是在实地研究阶段，还是在开发方法和评估研究方面。

This project starts from the ambiguity of the notions of tradition and traditional religion, which are often referred to by the same term in local languages of Burkina Faso. Based on this observation, it proposes a pragmatic and epistemological approach to observe the relationship between tradition and local religions through the practices and discourses of artists, intellectuals, young people and local leaders, rather than focusing on pre-defined conceptual units. Far from being relegated to the past, debates about traditional religion and/or tradition in Burkinabe society remain timely. The project focuses on the historical and contemporary challenges of these "traditions" within Burkina Faso's religious diversity. The main question, therefore, concerns the relationships that these concepts create, what they defuse, rearrange or disrupt in Burkinabe society. How do the shifts, boundaries and similarities between traditional religion and tradition affect the practices and discourses of the actors? To what extent do they re-appropriate "tradition"? And how does this make sense in the current context of Burkina Faso? Burkina Faso with its different religious and cultural traditions seems to be a good field of investigation to reflect on diversity, encounters and interactions, although studies on the current developments of traditional religions in Burkina Faso are rare. Moreover, today, high expectations are placed in traditional religions to tackle violent Islamic radicalism; yet it is not very clear what their contribution may well be. The aim is to examine the diverse perspectives of actors in specific social, political and historical processes on tradition and traditional religions. How do these people reinvest traditional religion at a moment in Burkina Faso's history marked by a rise in terrorism, major political uncertainties and worrying tensions between different population groups?Five work packages (WP) will make it possible to carry out this project: the analysis of the discourses of political and intellectual elites, of the performing arts, of local rulers, of "ordinary" practices such as naming and, finally, of the re-articulation of tradition and its patrimonialization in rural areas. It is supported by a French team (IRD-Imaf) and a German team (University of Mainz, Ifeas), who together supervise Master's students in Burkina Faso and collaborate with Burkinabe artists, both during the field research phases and in developing the methodology and valorizing the research.