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

这个项目是从传统和传统宗教概念的模糊性开始的，在布基纳法索的当地语言中，这两个概念经常被称为同一个术语。基于这一观察，本文提出了一种实用主义和认识论的方法，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，而不是关注预先定义的概念单位。关于布基纳法索社会的传统宗教和/或传统的辩论远远没有被降级到过去，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，主要问题是这些概念在布基纳法索社会中创造的关系，它们缓和、重新安排或破坏了什么。传统宗教和传统之间的转变、界限和相似性如何影响演员的实践和话语？他们在多大程度上重新挪用了“传统”？这在布吉纳法索目前的情况下有何意义？布基纳法索有着不同的宗教和文化传统，似乎是一个很好的调查领域，可以反映多样性、相遇和互动，尽管对布基纳法索传统宗教当前发展的研究很少。此外，今天人们对传统宗教寄予厚望，希望它们能解决暴力的伊斯兰激进主义；然而，目前还不清楚他们的贡献是什么。其目的是审查特定社会、政治和历史进程中有关传统和传统宗教的行动者的不同观点。在布吉纳法索历史上，恐怖主义抬头、重大政治不确定、不同族群间紧张关系令人担忧，这些人如何重新投资传统宗教？五个工作包（WP）将使实施该项目成为可能：分析政治和知识精英的话语，表演艺术，地方统治者的话语，“普通”实践，如命名，最后是传统的重新表达及其在农村地区的世袭化。它得到了法国团队（IRD-Imaf）和德国团队（美因茨大学，Ifeas）的支持，他们共同监督布基纳法索的硕士学生，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.